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Required Sr. Threat Detection Engineer
About the Team:
You'll be joining our Cloud Content Research team, a team focused on stopping real-world adversaries targeting cloud infrastructure. Our unique position within allows us to work closely with our Threat Intelligence, OverWatch, and Incident Response teams, translating front-line observations of adversary tactics into effective detection capabilities. We combine deep cloud security expertise with innovative detection engineering to identify and stop sophisticated cloud threats. Our team creates advanced detection content and drives innovation in cloud security through close collaboration with Product and Engineering teams, who develop new detection capabilities based on our insights and requirements. We focus on both strategic research into emerging cloud attack techniques and rapid response to evolving adversary tactics observed in the wild.
About the Role:
As a Senior Cloud Detection Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of protecting organizations against sophisticated cloud threats, working with some of the industry's most advanced security technologies and enterprise-scale cloud environments. You'll have the unique opportunity to translate real-world adversary intelligence into innovative detection capabilities that protect many of the world's leading organizations across every major industry.
What You'll Do:
Research and develop detection content for cloud-native attacks, including identity-based threats, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, cloud-native tactics
Create correlation logic and between runtime events and control plane activities
Design and implement detection logic across multi-cloud and hybrid environments
Collaborate with Threat Intelligence, OverWatch, and Incident Response teams to develop detections based on real adversary activities
Partner with Product and Engineering teams to enhance detection capabilities.

Were looking for a hands-on AI Cyber Intelligence Engineer - in the domain of network attack surface. Someone who lives and breathes network security, loves exploring how attackers move through real environments, and is excited to shape how AI can automate and extend that process.
In this role, youll analzse real-world environments, identify potential attack vectors, and work closely with our AI engineering teams to translate your domain expertise into actionable, intelligent workflows. Youll play a key role in guiding how our platform learns to think and act like a top-tier security analyst.
Responsibilities
Analyse complex network environments, configurations, and security controls to map topologies and identify weaknesses or lateral movement paths.
Research and model attacker behaviour and detection strategies, guiding how AI systems reason about threat scenarios.
Collaborate with AI engineers to shape agentic flows - defining the logic, prompts, and reasoning patterns that replicate expert investigative thinking.
Conduct hands-on assessments of enterprise networks to validate and improve automated detection and response capabilities.
Stay current on evolving attack tactics, network security technologies, and AI-driven threat detection trends.
Act as a security subject matter expert for cross-functional engineering teams.

Required Senior Cloud Security Researcher (Cortex)
Your Career
Are you passionate about innovation in cloud security and want to redefine how Security Operations Centers (SOCs) leverage both agent and agentless technologies for detection and response? Join our cutting-edge Security Research team and lead the development of next-generation cloud detection and response solutions. In this role, you will define detection use cases, analyze threat data, and create advanced security content to protect against evolving threats in cloud environments. Be part of an exceptional team of researchers and engineers dedicated to safeguarding our customers. This is your opportunity to dive into pioneering technologies that integrate cloud security with innovative detection methodologies in a world-leading cybersecurity company.
Your Impact
Conduct ongoing research to identify and develop new detection techniques for both agent-based and agentless cloud technologies
Stay ahead of Advanced Threats, attacker methodologies, and Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) to ensure our solutions remain proactive and effective against emerging threats
Simulate real-world attack scenarios in lab settings, performing in-depth analysis of adversarial behaviors and their implications for cloud security
Foster a collaborative atmosphere within an experienced, diverse, and supportive research team, driving forward new and innovative ideas in cloud detection and response.

Required Senior Security Researcher - Cloud - Security Automation (Cortex)
Your Career
Are you passionate about taking automation to the next level? Do you live and breathe the cyber security world? Do you want to take part in an innovative and disruptive team that will have an impact on the lives of many customers?
As a Cloud Cybersecurity Researcher, you will design and implement remediation strategies for cloud runtime and posture issues, ensuring responses are as autonomous, effective, and safe as possible. You will collaborate with leading security experts, leverage cutting-edge technologies, and contribute to the vision of an Autonomous SOC.
Your Impact
Develop robust, testable, and safe remediation plans for cloud runtime and posture issues (CSPM, DSPM, CIEM, CNAPP, IAM, etc.)
Conduct in-depth research to identify attacker TTPs and cloud misconfiguration risks, and translate findings into automated response playbooks
Apply data analysis, programming, and modeling techniques to evaluate and optimize remediation approaches
Collaborate within a diverse research group to continuously improve automation processes and methodologies
Stay ahead of evolving threats, including cloud-native attack vectors and advanced adversary tradecraft.

We're looking for a Manager to lead a security research team for detection and response across cloud environments. This is an opportunity to lead an exceptional group of researchers working on a startup-level product within the largest security company, helping revolutionize how organizations protect their Kubernetes and hybrid cloud environments.
Your Impact
Lead, mentor, and grow a team of talented security researchers focused on defending organizations as they transition from on-premises data centers to modern cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.
Drive the strategy and execution of research initiatives to uncover novel techniques for detecting and responding to sophisticated attacks targeting hybrid and cloud-native environments.
Define and prioritize detection use cases, relevant datasets, and innovative analytic approaches combining runtime visibility and posture management across diverse platforms.
Stay up to date with the latest attacker methodologies, APT campaigns, and TTPs to ensure our detection capabilities stay ahead of evolving threats in both legacy and cloud contexts.
Oversee simulation of real-world attacks and deep behavioral analysis to inform and validate detection content.
Foster collaboration across engineering, product management, and go-to-market teams to deliver impactful security solutions. Represent the team and share insights with the security community through blogs, conference talks, and publications.

Required Senior Security Researcher - Identity - Security Automation (Cortex)
Your Career
Are you passionate about advancing automation in identity security? Do you thrive at the intersection of research, innovation, and large-scale impact? As a Senior Security Researcher, you will drive the design of autonomous response strategies to counter identity-based threats, misconfigurations, and abuse scenarios. Your research will directly shape the Cortex platforms ability to remediate identity-driven attacks, ensuring effective, safe, and scalable automation for our customers. You will collaborate with world-class researchers and engineers to deliver on the vision of the Autonomous SOC.
Your Impact
Lead the design and implementation of robust, testable, and safe remediation playbooks for identity-related threats (e.g., privilege escalation, credential abuse, lateral movement, IAM misconfigurations).
Conduct deep research on adversary TTPs targeting identity systems and translate insights into automated detection and response mechanisms.
Drive innovation in identity security automation by applying data analysis, modeling, and programming to refine remediation strategies.
Serve as a subject-matter expert and mentor within the research group, elevating the teams overall expertise in identity security.
Stay ahead of evolving identity-based attack vectors, cloud-native identity risks, and advanced adversary tradecraft to ensure our automation keeps pace with threats.

Were looking for a highly technical and creative Security Researcher to join our research group. This role is central to navigating complex security landscapes, advancing our CNAPP offerings, crafting sophisticated algorithms, and pioneering cloud security research. Working alongside a diverse team, youll explore the cutting edge of cloud and AI-driven security, uncovering critical vulnerabilities, developing novel detection techniques, and driving impactful research publications. Join us in shaping the future of cloud security, where your work not only advances our technology but also deeply resonates with our commitment to exceeding customer expectations, streamlining for simplicity, and tackling challenges with creative solutions.





Responsibilities

Collaborate with teams across the organization, including Product, Frontend, DevOps, and GTM, to develop and integrate top-tier features.
Conduct deep technical research into cloud-native environments.
Lead initiatives from their inception through to deployment, emphasizing backend system efficiency, scalability, and reliability.
Innovate in Defense Evasion, amplifying the capabilities of our agents and engines.
Forge new paths in cloud security research and cyber security algorithm development.
Deep dive into threat detection and product content that provide deep insights and added value to our customers.

We're looking for an experienced Principal Threat Researcher to join our Threat Hunting team. Reporting to the Senior Manager, Threat Research, you'll be responsible for:

Leading end-to-end research POCs: formulating hypotheses, designing methodologies, implementing experiments, analyzing results, and translating findings into production-ready capabilities and customer outcomes
Researching and developing methodologies for identifying, assessing, and mitigating threats and risks across diverse data sources
Partnering with data scientists and ML engineers to shape model features, training data strategies, and evaluation frameworks derived from real-world signals
Providing actionable recommendations to improve data quality, policies, detections, controls, and response strategies across Zscalers security offerings
Presenting research findings clearly and meaningfully to technical and non-technical stakeholders; influencing roadmap decisions with evidence-based insights

Required Principal Security Researcher, Data & AI (Cortex)
Your Career
Are you passionate about using cutting-edge technology to help protect the world against cyber threats? Do you live and breathe the cyber security world? Do you want to take part in an innovative and disruptive AI security group that has an impact on many customers?
You will be part of a strong security research and data science team who solve highly complex security challenges using disruptive technologies, ML algorithms and a lot of data.
As part of that, you will take part in the design and development of new groundbreaking AI security solutions which make a direct impact on many customers.
We value diverse viewpoints and experiences, as we are solving complex cyber security challenges. We are committed to a safe and inclusive workspace.
Your Impact
Transform Data into Defense:Take the lead in creating high-fidelity security incidents from a massive stream of alerts generated by our industry-leading advanced security solutions
Innovate with AI: Actively participate in cutting-edge research projects focused on creating novel prevention content at scale using state-of-the-art AI and Large Language Models (LLMs)
Drive Security Efficacy: Analyze complex threat data to identify attacker patterns, develop new prevention methodologies, and enhance automated flows to rapidly protect Cortex platform customers
Collaborate and Lead: Work side-by-side with top-tier data scientists, engineers, and product managers to translate research ideas into tangible, customer-facing security protections.

Shape the Future of Cybersecurity with Us Are you driven by deep curiosity, bold innovation, and the desire to transform cutting-edge AI research into real-world cybersecurity impact? Join Cynet, an established yet rapidly growing cybersecurity startup, where you’ll help build next-generation AI-powered security products from the ground up. You’ll be part of a small, elite, cross-disciplinary team working closely with security researchers, R&D engineers, data engineers, and product leaders. Here, you’re not just joining a company, you’re stepping into a place where you can envision, build, and deploy foundational AI technologies that protect organizations worldwide. You will have the rare opportunity to drive innovation end-to-end, shape our future technology, and create AI systems that make a real difference in defending against modern cyber threats. This is a role for someone who wants to put their soul into their craft, someone hungry to learn fast, experiment boldly, and turn ambitious ideas into production-ready AI solutions.

What will you do:
In this unique hybrid role spanning data science and cybersecurity research, you will:
* Drive innovation by combining deep security research with modern AI techniques to build impactful, customer-facing security capabilities.
* Build and refine intelligent generative AI agents that drive automated cybersecurity reasoning, investigation workflows, and threat analysis.
* Extend and enhance our next-generation AI antivirus engine by designing new feature representations, building file parsers, and developing ML models end-to-end.
* Engineer and implement core parser and model components in C++ and Python to seamlessly integrate into the Cynet Endpoint Agent and platform infrastructure.
* Use Cynet’s ML experimentation pipelines to run experiments, optimize performance, and deliver production-ready detection models.
* Serve as the cybersecurity expert within the Data Science team, guiding threat modeling, malware understanding, and security-driven AI design decisions.