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As a Security Researcher, you will join the Security Research team to conduct research yielding new insights into advanced, real-world attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures. Your day-to-day responsibilities involve developing high-quality protection signals and resilient detection logic across complex attack chains while designing innovative capabilities to autonomously prevent, detect, and disrupt sophisticated threats in near real time. You will analyze real-world attacks and telemetry to improve protection coverage, precision, and resilience. The role requires deep security expertise, offensive security research experience, and digital forensics skills. You must possess programming skills in C, C++, or C# and have low-level security knowledge of other operating systems. This position focuses on solving technical problems related to threat detection and the development of evidence-based research decisions.
Vulnerability Research
Offensive Security
Exploit Development
Reverse Engineering
AI
Threat Analysis
Anomaly Detection
Software Development Lifecycle
Large-scale Computing
Capture The Flag (CTF)
Vulnerability Research
Offensive Security
Exploit Development
Reverse Engineering
AI
Threat Analysis
Anomaly Detection
Software Development Lifecycle
Cybersecurity
Capture The Flag (CTF)
Machine Learning
Large Language Models
Cybersecurity
Reverse Engineering
Big Data Pipelines
Deep Learning
Anomaly Detection
Threat Hunting
Software Development Lifecycle
Root-Cause Analysis
Vulnerability Research
AI Red Teaming
Adversarial Machine Learning
Generative AI
Penetration Testing
Python
C#
C/C++
PowerShell
Kali Linux
Burpsuite
Nmap
Nessus
Vulnerability Research
Anomaly Detection
Threat Analysis
Software Development Lifecycle
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