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You will analyze suspicious files and adapt our generic and heuristic detection technologies either to improve or to change the detection in order to make it more reliable. Our goal is to have the best and most reliable detection for anything harmful which might appear on our customer’s computer!
You will research how certain 3rd party software vendors distribute and update their software, you will create monitoring mechanisms in order to keep track of all changes. It is your responsibility to set up processes in order to collect those software bundles fully automated and in real-time.
You will research for possibilities how the gathered software bundles can be unpacked and installed fully automatically without any human interaction. This can be achieved either by creating unpacking algorithms for specific packers or by creating a more general solution.
As a member of Avira’s Protection QA team you will significantly contribute to improve the quality of Avira’s detection technologies in constant interaction with an international team located in Germany and Romania. You will analyze files and separate malicious from good ones. Independently you will find the best solutions to cope with an always growing amount of data in order to keep Avira’s QA systems up to date.
Keys to hiring:
Your high level of self-motivation, your eager will to complete tasks very thorough together with your good knowledge in Windows operating systems and the PE file format will lead you to outstanding results when analyzing and judging files according to its code and behavior.
Your ability to think out of the box in combination with your good skills in Python and Batch will let you create excellent process automation. Ideally you are also familiar with C/C++ and AutoIt.
Located in Bucharest - Romania, Avira was founded in 2004 by a dynamic core of security experts who is committed to the following values: security ethics, professional attitude, open spirit, pride and respect. These principles are meant to stand at the base of any long term
collaboration and partnership that Avira Soft will undertake.
Avira Soft gathered a team of more than 50 dynamic professionals who are permanently collaborating with the experimented specialists of Avira GmbH , Germany. We are a dynamic and creative team and our purpose is to produce high quality software.
We also impose some requirements for our candidates: creativity, technical knowledge, team working capabilities and the ability to finish the job on time.
