Beware - soon to be mobile forensic practitioners.
Obtaining a forensic image of a mobile device is never really an easy process, unless lady luck is shining on you everyday (you could be unlucky like me, in receiving all the unsupported phones)
It is only until recently (last couple of years) that the mobile forensic tools (XRY/Cellebrite, add your own here) has made a significant progress. Partially this is due to increase in their staff numbers in research and engineering.
In your role, you might be expected to obtain forensic images of mobile devices, create custody forms, perform the analysis on the obtained forensic image, build a nice little story and drafting up reports.
In some cases, you might need to sort assistance with flasher boxes and chip off depending on the tool you use and/or the physical condition of the mobile device.
Unless you have superior coding/scripting skills you might also need assistance with decoding the forensic image into meaningful data which might take considerable time.
Your analysis might need you to proof when a specific SIM/uSIM cards was first initialised on the mobile device, how many different SIM/uSIM cards has been initialised on the specific phone. You might also need to proof how a SIM/uSIM card might has been forged.
If you can get into the field, you will get to play with a number of tools, as not one tool supports all. You will get challenges, you get to read alot of research papers, you will get to read a lot of electrical engineering/telecommunications standards.
Enjoy.
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