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My default canned response to all recruiters. Know what you want out of your career and articulate it specifically if you want to get it either at your current employer, or a different one.
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I know exactly what I want in a long term role so I can save us some time.

For me to be willing to change jobs at this point I would expect:

  • A high level of autonomy where I am allowed to work weird hours.
  • Have my obsession for auditable everything be humored/tolerated
    • I prefer to work with open platforms like RISC-V and OpenPower and open operating systems like Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Sel4, etc
    • I am never asked to rely on any software I can't audit on any of my personal or company devices.
  • No need to go find clients myself or worry about the business side of the house
  • Travel/lodging covered for the 2-3 security conferences I try to attend every year.
  • 2-3 weeks a year of vacation on top of that
  • The ability to regularly publish my own open security research and tools
  • The bulk of my job being solving hard security problems in areas like:
    • Supply Chain Integrity
    • Decentralized Trust
    • Automated/Immutable infrastructure
    • Hardware security modules
    • Applied Cryptography
    • Physical Security
  • To have my work overall be helping make the world better in some way in areas such as:
    • Improving security, privacy, or safety for the public
    • Open source or decentralized replacements for closed systems.
    • Accessible education
    • Accessible healthcare
    • Public scientific research
    • Sustainable energy
    • Preserving legal rights of individuals
  • To work with highly capable peers that can call me out when I am wrong.
  • To have plenty of chances to mentor and educate others
  • To have plenty of chances to learn new skills from others with specialties I don't have.
  • To be able to strictly follow Kerckhoffs's principle and never be asked to defend security theater
  • To keep my combined weekly commute time under 3 hours (short commute every day or long commute once or twice a week)

My current employer mostly checks these boxes, so I mostly don't have any motivation to change roles at the moment. I certainly am not interested in hearing out anything less. If it takes years to find an ideal fit then it takes years.

Hopefully that helps! Thanks for your interest either way. :)

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