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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:

* 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.

About Us:
Cynet is a leader in threat detection and response, designed to simplify security for organizations of all sizes. Our mission is to empower lean security teams and their partners with an AI-powered, unified platform that autonomously detects, protects, and responds to threats - backed by 24×7 security experts. With a Partner First mindset , we focus on helping customers and partners stay protected, operate confidently, and achieve their goals. Our vision is to give every organization true cybersecurity peace of mind, providing fast, accurate protection without the noise or complexity.
This role follows a hybrid work model in countries where Cynet has offices (Israel, USA), while being fully remote in England, Poland, Italy, and Germany.

We are on the lookout for a driven and experienced hands-on Team Leader to lead a group of cyber security experts responsible for our detection platform.
In this role, you will lead a team of security engineers and own the security coverage and accuracy of our detection platform to guide development and strengthen our customers' resilience to emerging unknown threats. Your expertise in cyber security will drive our true AI-driven detection platform.
Responsibilities
Mentor engineers, grow the team, and foster a culture of technical excellence and innovation.
Work closely with developers and data scientists to produce AI detection models.
Apply your cyber expertise to investigate emerging threats and define technical requirements to mitigate them.
Continuously assess and evaluate security coverage and accuracy.
Architect and build scalable solutions for evaluating the platform security metrics.
Bring your excellent interpersonal skills to foster collaboration and maintain a positive attitude within the team.

we are looking for a Cyber Security Engineer
As a Cyber Security Engineer , youll play a key role in protecting our global platform and ensuring the resilience of our systems against emerging threats. Youll be responsible for investigating and responding to security incidents, analyzing malware, and conducting threat hunting activities across cloud environments.
Youll collaborate closely with the Infosec team, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to detect, contain, and mitigate threats, while continuously improving our security posture.
As part of a strong, experienced team, youll contribute to design, shape and implement information security solutions, mentor others in best practices, and drive automation initiatives to streamline detection and response.
Responsibilities:
Develop and maintain automation scripts in Python to enhance SOC efficiency and incident response workflows.
Perform initial triage and assessment of security incidents, identifying threats and recommending mitigation strategies.
Conduct static and dynamic analysis to uncover malicious behaviours, code, and techniques.
Apply forensic methodologies to extract, analyze, and interpret digital evidence to support investigations and attribution.
Investigate and mitigate cloud-based threats, with a focus on AWS environments.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to strengthen overall organizational security and ensure best practices.

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.

We are seeking a highly skilled Principal Security Researcher to join our Threat and Detection Group at the Tel-Aviv R&D center.
This team focuses on PANW Cortex Security and Security Assurance features across various operating systems and platforms, including (but not limited to) Linux, Mac, and Cloud. This is an applied research role with a clear mission: your research directly improves the detection and prevention capabilities of our XDR agent.
The role involves simulating, automating, and developing proof-of-concepts for known threats and offensive tools to evaluate new feature security coverage and detection quality, aligned with the Kill Chain/MITRE ATT&CK Framework and real-world threats. We need an experienced Security Researcher with a deep background in offensive security concepts and a strong interest in Linux, Cloud, and macOS platforms.
You will conduct Linux security evaluations, research innovations to enhance our security solutions, and find innovative yet practical solutions to contemporary problems. You will also develop custom tools and advanced in-house security capabilities to continuously validate our product's defenses.
Your Impact
Work hand-in-hand with the Cortex Agent release team. This role demands applied research synchronized with our delivery schedule, ensuring that every feature release is validated against the latest threats prior to launch.
Drive our threat simulation automation strategy by researching and developing new tools and capabilities that emulate real-world adversary behavior.
Enrich our Security Automation Coverage and infrastructure to protect against known and unknown threats.
Thrive in a fast-paced, high-impact environment, mastering new security features, technologies, and complex platforms (from kernel to Kubernetes) quickly.
Conduct hands-on research to identify real-world Malware, exploits, and novel attack vectors, then create and code PoCs to test our defenses.
Act as a key research partner with engineering teams to push and validate our product capabilities.
Leverage data-driven approaches to identify threats and propose effective mitigations.

We are seeking a driven problem solver to join our Unit 42 MDR team.
Our team is responsible for customers internal security monitoring, threat hunting and incident response. As a Senior MDR, we will rely on you to manage a team of experts who detect and respond to cyber incidents facing customers internal business.
As a Senior, you will join a team of managers who overlook the Unit 42 MDR team to ensure premium delivery to our customers and also have a critical role in how the team works, but also be able to create new processes, methodologies and capabilities that the team requires.
Your Impact
Hire for and lead a team of MDR Analysts working globally, guide the team, create and improve processes, methodologies and capabilities that the team requires to work effectively
Lead a team that analyzes incidents from real customer environments to identify ongoing threats to customer environments
Provide critical feedback to the different product, research and engineering and threat hunting teams to help improve the products for the entire companys customer base
Work closely with Security Research, Threat Intelligence and Threat Hunting teams to remediate and detect new emerging threats.

This role is client-facing and requires the Principal Consultant to lead and produce deliverables based on reactive services client engagements. The Principal Consultant will work directly with multiple customers and key stakeholders (Admins, C-Suite, etc) to manage incident response engagements and provide guidance on longer term remediation.
Your Impact
Perform reactive incident response functions including but not limited to - host-based analysis functions through investigating Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X systems to identify Indicators of Compromise (IOCs)
Examine firewall, web, database, and other log sources to identify evidence of malicious activity
Investigate data breaches leveraging forensics tools including Encase, FTK, X-Ways, SIFT, Splunk, and custom Crypsis investigation tools to determine source of compromises and malicious activity that occurred in client environments
Manage incident response engagements to scope work, guide clients through forensic investigations, contain security incidents, and provide guidance on longer term remediation recommendations
Ability to perform travel requirements as needed to meet business demands (on average 20%)
Mentorship of team members in incident response and forensics best practices.

The CSO Office is seeking an Application Security Team Lead. In this role, you will manage an application security team that focuses on building and running tools to secure the application landscape at scale, as well as conducting vulnerability research. You will work closely with the R&D and DevOps teams and serve as the focal point for identifying and resolving complex security challenges. This is a hands-on Team Lead position, a development-focused role that ensures our products adhere to the stringent security requirements of our thousands of customers.

As an Application Security Team Lead you will
Lead and mentor the Application Security team.
Develop and implement security automation solutions.
Conduct code reviews and vulnerability assessments.
Perform penetration testing (PT) and other offensive security activities.
Manage security projects and initiatives within complex SaaS environments.
Collaborate with development teams to integrate security into the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC).
Develop and maintain security policies and procedures.
Provide technical guidance and expertise on application security best practices.
Report on security metrics and project progress to stakeholders.

As a Research Analyst, your responsibilities will include developing, managing and improving existing detection methods, correlating and discovering relationships between events and incidents, and producing research proposals, publications, and analysis reports. You will contribute to process improvement and efficiency by researching, assessing, and analyzing threat actors and adversary tactics and techniques based on real-world observations. We're looking for a motivated and seasoned security professional with the technical skills to analyze malware, conceive, design, and develop new methods or approaches to address cyber security threats/attacks. We value deep knowledge of hacking methodologies, a proven track record in delivering impactful cybersecurity solutions, and a strong drive to contribute meaningful security insights to our community!

About Us:
Cynet is a leader in threat detection and response, designed to simplify security for organizations of all sizes. Our mission is to empower lean security teams and their partners with an AI-powered, unified platform that autonomously detects, protects, and responds to threats - backed by 24×7 security experts. With a Partner First mindset , we focus on helping customers and partners stay protected, operate confidently, and achieve their goals. Our vision is to give every organization true cybersecurity peace of mind, providing fast, accurate protection without the noise or complexity.