Updated August 4, 2026

20 open positions

Reverse-engineering Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 20+ reverse engineering jobs at companies offering 9-day fortnights and unlimited PTO—full pay and a better work-life balance. 5 new this week. Hiring companies include Anthropic, VulnCheck, and Parsons Corporation.

Jobs

New This Week

10+

Companies

Updated Daily

Software Developer

Parsons Corporation

RemoteUSA

70 · Great9 day fortnight$88k – $155k

Vulnerability Researcher/Reverse Engineer

Parsons Corporation

RemoteUSA

70 · Great9 day fortnight

Sr. Exploit Developer (US)

2mo

VulnCheck

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior AI Engineer (Maryland, US)

2mo

VulnCheck

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Principal Product Researcher - EDR (Windows)

17d

Huntress

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$200k – $230k

Senior Software Engineer, Fraud

3mo

Twilio

RemoteUSA

60 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$139k – $204k

R&D Associate

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

HybridOak Ridge, USA

63 · Good9 day fortnight

Anti-Cheat Programmer (March of Giant)

2mo

Ubisoft Montreal

OnsiteMontreal, Canada

85 · Excellent4 day week80% pay

Anti-Cheat Programmer

2mo

Ubisoft Montreal

OnsiteMontreal, Canada

85 · Excellent4 day week80% pay

Python Automation Engineer

iCapital

OnsiteStamford, USA

54 · Decent5 day weekUnlimited PTO$150k – $180k

CNO Developer

OnsiteJessup, USA

61 · Good9 day fortnight$190k – $210k

Senior DSP Engineer

OnsiteLeesburg, USA

61 · Good9 day fortnight$128k – $195k

Senior Compliance Engineer

2mo

Dolby

HybridSan Francisco, USA

71 · Great9 day fortnight$137k – $188k

Sr. Exploit Developer

2mo

VulnCheck

HybridCheltenham, UK

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Associate Customer Application Engineer

12d

Ivalua

HybridPune, India

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Cybersecurity Incident Response Specialist

2mo

Geotab

HybridAtlanta, USA

60 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible

Security Engineer - Incident Response

1mo

Squarespace

HybridDublin, Ireland

57 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave€70k – €108k

Offensive Hardware Security Engineer, Platform Security

24d

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$320k – $405k

Platform Security Engineer, OpenBMC

1mo

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$320k – $405k

Software Engineer, Cybersecurity Products

2mo

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco +3 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$320k – $405k

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Reverse Engineering on this page include Anthropic, VulnCheck, and Parsons Corporation. Reverse Engineering roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Reverse Engineering is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Reverse Engineering roles span the full seniority range — we list 20 open roles requiring Reverse Engineering across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Reverse Engineering hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Reverse Engineering roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Reverse Engineering candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Reverse Engineering on current listings.