Solutions Engineer

Quarkslab is a French company specializing in information security R&D, consulting and software development. Our expertise is in combining offensive and defensive security to help organizations adopt a new security posture: Force the attackers, not the defender, to adapt constantly. Through our consulting services as well as our software we provide tailored solutions to organizations, helping them to protect their assets, sensitive data, and users against increasingly sophisticated attacks.

Quarkslab is an avid and active user of, and contributor to, Open Source Software and develops and maintains state-of-the-art security tools such as LIEF , QBDI, Triton, Irma, and several other projects.

We develop two commercial software products: QFlow, a platform to automate and orchestrate security analysis of files at scale, and QShield, advanced code and data protection software to disrupt code lifting, reverse engineering and tampering attacks.

Job Description
The QShield team is looking for a Field Application Engineer to help the Product and Operations team to follow projects with customers and to technically help completing tasks during the lifecycle of the operations. 

Current challenges involve in selling a strongly technical product involving technologies like Whitebox Cryptography, Obfuscation, Remote Attestation and Runtime App Self Protections.  

The Operation team is in charge of piloting customer operations from pre-sale activities to post sale activities. The team is also in charge of product management and product marketing.  

As a member of this team, you will technically support pre-sales to answer to prospect answers and to classify prospect requests you will then being responsible of technical support and upsell activities and you finally being accountable in writing technical design inputs for new features.  

If you like compilation, cryptography, technical challenges, and are curious about security, you will love this job! 

Key Responsibilities

• Follow Operations activities with Account Manager. 
• Help Pre-sale design custom solutions for clients if needed. 
• Help the Product Manager/Product Owner write the technical design inputs for new features/products. 
• Design and implement custom solutions for specific clients. 
• Technically support putting together project tenders and customer specifications. 
• Technical Support of ongoing prospects/customers/partners projects. 
• Participate in events like trade shows and guarantee the technical setup of demos. 
• Help design, improve, and update training materials. 
• Organize and give trainings to customers. 

Who you are
The skills or knowledge we think you should have:

• Good communication skills, especially with prospects and customers 
• Knowledge in software engineering/software architecture 
• Knowledge in developing portable solutions on all OSes (Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android, iOS, etc.) 
• Knowledge in build system 
• Development in C/C++ and Java. 
• Team player 
• Rigorous and result oriented 
• Spoken English

But also, that would be nice if you knew:

• Development in Swift 
• Cryptography 
• JNI interface 
• Reverse engineering 
• Cmake, Git and Gitlab 
• Python, bash, javascript 

What is QShield?
At Quarkslab we develop QShield, a software for application protection. Our solutions include a tool to protect Java/Kotlin programs and a C/C++ code-obfuscator based on LLVM, a white-box cryptography library, a RASP framework, a digital vault and remote attestation solutions. All these components help to increase the security of applications and firmware/middleware to protect IP, APIs, secrets and every sensitive information used or provided by software.

Why work at Quarkslab?
Work with an amazing team, eager to learn and play with new approaches and technologies, mixing various skills (security, compilation, program analysis, reverse engineering, software engineering). International environment with offices in Paris and Buenos Aires (team croissants vs. team asado), representations in Tokyo and Singapore.

• Attend conferences in your field, learn from many internal events (weekly conference, trainings, research activities).
• Contribute and support Open Source Software: Our own tools and other people’s projects.
• Flexible work hours, work from home.
• Premium health insurance.

Our recruitment process:

1. Call with our Talent Acquisition Manager.
2. Video call with the Hiring Manager.
3. Interview with Engineering Manager, Sales Lead & Tech Lead (on-site or remote)
4. HR debrief and job offer.

Quarkslab is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability or gender identity. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know and we will be happy to accommodate.