Role Overview

We are looking for an Android Security Research Engineer who is passionate about understanding Android internals, breaking application and platform defenses, and conducting deep vulnerability research at both the application and system level. The ideal candidate has strong hands-on experience in reverse engineering, mobile application pentesting, exploit analysis, and security research, with exposure to kernel- and framework-level attack surfaces.

Key Responsibilities
- Perform reverse engineering of Android applications (APK/AAB) to identify security flaws, logic issues, and weak security implementations
- Conduct Android application penetration testing, including runtime manipulation, hooking, and traffic interception
- Analyze and bypass common mobile security controls such as SSL pinning, root detection, anti-debugging, tamper protection, and obfuscation
- Research Android internals including the Android framework, ART/Dalvik runtime, system services, Binder IPC, and permission model




- Perform dynamic and static analysis of Android malware and suspicious applications (good to have)
- Develop, customize, and maintain Frida scripts, Objection workflows, and custom tooling for security research
- Replicate and analyze publicly known Android vulnerabilities and exploits to understand root causes and impact
- Assist in vulnerability research and exploitation, including logic flaws, exploit chaining, and basic memory corruption concepts

Must-Have Skills
- Strong understanding of Android fundamentals and
Android internals (framework and system architecture)
- Hands-on experience with
Android kernel concepts and attack surface awareness
- Proven experience in reverse engineering Android applications
- Robust hands-on knowledge of Android application penetration testing methodologies
- Experience
replicating and analyzing known Android exploits
and adapting PoCs
- Familiarity with
exploit chaining concepts
in mobile attack scenarios
- Hands-on experience

📌 Android Security Research Engineer (Delhi)
🏢 C3iHub, IIT Kanpur
📍 Delhi