Were looking for Principal Cloud Security Researcher with a strong security background to join our innovative Research team.
The Role
We're looking for a Principal Cloud Security Researcher to serve as a senior technical leader within our Research team. This is a high-impact individual contributor role -- you won't manage people, but you'll shape the direction of our entire research function, mentor researchers, and act as a force multiplier across the organization.
You'll be the person who takes a vague threat signal and turns it into a detection strategy, a published finding, or a product capability. You'll operate as a trusted deputy to the research team lead, owning the most complex and ambiguous research challenges while raising the technical bar for the team.
What You'll Do
Drive Groundbreaking Research
Own and drive our most critical research initiatives end-to-end - from initial threat hypothesis through detection logic, product integration, and external publication.
Set the technical direction for cloud threat research across AWS, Azure, and GCP, identifying emerging attack surfaces and novel techniques before they become mainstream threats.
Investigate real-world cloud and SaaS security incidents, dissecting attacker tradecraft and extracting insights that evolve our detection capabilities.
Pioneer new forensic investigation techniques and detection methodologies for cloud-native and SaaS environments - pushing the state of the art, not just following it.
Be a Voice in the Community
Represent our company as a thought leader through high-quality research publications, conference presentations (BlackHat, DEF CON, RSA, fwd:cloudsec, and similar venues), and open-source contributions.
Build and maintain our reputation as a research-driven company that advances the field - not just a vendor with a blog.
Engage with the broader security research community, fostering relationships and collaborative knowledge-sharing.
Shape the Product
Bridge research and product - translate threat findings into actionable product requirements, working closely with engineering and product teams to ensure our CDR platform stays ahead of evolving threats.
Design and develop advanced detection algorithms that directly feed into our platform, closing the gap between research insight and customer protection.
Elevate the Team
Act as the team's go-to technical authority. When researchers hit a wall on complex cloud attack chains, IAM edge cases, or detection gaps - you're who they turn to.
Mentor and grow other researchers through research reviews, pair investigations, code reviews, and by setting quality standards and methodology best practices.
Influence technical decisions org-wide - contributing to architecture, tooling, and strategic research priorities.
Step in as the research team lead's deputy when needed - driving prioritization, representing research cross-functionally, and ensuring continuity.

Required Head of Research
About the role:
As the Head of Research, you will lead our threat-research, security-innovation, and vulnerability-discovery efforts. You will define the strategy for how we uncover threats, identify novel attack vectors, influence product direction, and contribute thought leadership to the cybersecurity community. You will manage and grow a team of world-class researchers, work closely with product, engineering and go-to-market teams, and ensure our research remains cutting-edge, rigorous and impactful. This role emphasizes strong people leadership and cross-functional execution, alongside technical depth and hands-on research judgment.
What youll do:
Develop, own and evolve the research strategy by defining high value focus areas (for example misconfigurations, identity threats, workload vulnerabilities, and emerging attack techniques), and ensure alignment with our product roadmap and business objectives.
Lead, coach, and mentor a multidisciplinary research team (researchers, threat analysts, and engineers).
Build a healthy, high-performing org, including hiring, onboarding, and performance management.
Partner closely with product and engineering leadership to turn research insights into concrete roadmap items, detection logic, and customer value.
Drive discovery of new vulnerabilities, attack techniques, or adversary behaviors across cloud and modern infrastructure environments (for example containers, serverless, data stores, IAM).
Define metrics for research impact (for example vulnerabilities discovered, time to validate and operationalize new findings, research-driven product improvements, external reach).
Establish and maintain external partnerships (industry peers, academic groups, independent researchers) to expand our capabilities and pipeline.
Publish and present research findings (blog posts, white papers, conference talks).
Lead vulnerability disclosure and responsible communications.
Ensure the research function has the right infrastructure and processes (tooling, sandboxes, repeatable experimentation, documentation standards).
Stay current with the threat landscape, emerging technologies, attacker tradecraft, and relevant compliance or regulatory shifts.

We are looking for a strategic leader to evolve our Threat team into a comprehensive
Deep Research Group
. As the Head of Research, you will lead innovation across AI Security, Threat Intelligence, and Intelligence, transforming raw research into core platform differentiators. This is a pivotal leadership position responsible for delivering high-signal content and product-impacting discoveries that will directly influence our expansion into the enterprise market.
Responsibilities:
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Organizational Leadership:
Lead, mentor, and scale a diverse group, including the Threat Research Team, Offensive Research Team, AI Research & Innovation Team, and OSINT/Vulnerability squads
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Strategic Delivery:
Oversee the lifecycle of major research initiatives, from initial discovery to full productization, ensuring deep technical findings are translated into user-facing value.
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Proactive Hunting:
Drive a proactive hunting strategy, utilizing external scanning and internal signals to uncover emerging campaigns and validate novel threats before they become widespread.
● Cross-Functional AI Integration:
Collaborate with the AI Lead and Engineering to integrate proprietary intel into our detection models and strengthen our AI-driven security architecture.

As the Code & AI Security Research Manager, you will lead an elite team in redefining trust for an era of agentic automation and hyper-connected supply chains. You will serve as a technical lighthouse and strategic leader, managing a high-performance team to secure the core of modern engineering. Your mission is to bridge deep technical research with product innovation, ensuring our customers' security posture evolves faster than the way they build software.
Key Responsibilities
Lead, mentor, and empower a team of world-class security researchers to pioneer AI-native security strategies.
Define the vision for identifying and mitigating novel attack vectors targeting coding agents and autonomous development workflows.
Oversee the evolution of traditional code vulnerabilities into proactive, self-healing workflows that fix issues before they reach a pull request.
Drive deep-dive research into software supply chain vulnerabilities, including CI/CD pipeline risks and third-party package security.
Proactively collaborate with Product and Engineering leaders to integrate research findings into core platform detection and remediation logic.
Establish the team as a global thought leader by overseeing original research publications, influential blog posts, and conference presentations.

We are looking for a Security Researcher who thrives on both sides of the fence. You will develop offensive tradecraft-discovering new attack vectors and writing exploits-then use that perspective to engineer robust, product-level mitigations. If youre energized by finding a novel browser attack on Monday and shipping the defense for it by Friday, this role is for you.
Key Responsibilities
Offensive Research: Discover new attack vectors, abuse patterns, and security gaps in browsers, web applications, OS internals, and enterprise workflows.
Defensive Engineering: Design and implement detections, mitigations, and security policies informed by your offensive findings; close the loop from attack to protection.
Vulnerability & Malware Analysis: Perform reverse engineering on malware, exploits, and obfuscated code across Windows, macOS, and browser environments.
Web & Browser Security: Research techniques ranging from classic vulnerabilities (XSS, SSRF) to browser-specific primitives (extension abuse, DOM manipulation, same-origin bypasses).
Supply-Chain Security: Investigate threats in software supply chains, including browser extension marketplaces and package registries.
Threat Intelligence: Correlate signals across multiple sources to identify malicious infrastructure and adversary TTPs.
Public Impact: Write technical blog posts, publish research, and represent Island at major security conferences (Black Hat, DEF CON, etc.).

We are looking for a Research Team Lead to establish and lead a cross-product research team focused on horizontal, high-impact initiatives that influence multiple company offerings.
Unlike product-embedded research roles, this team drives foundational and strategic research projects across networking, security, identity, automation, and AI-driven capabilities. Examples include large-scale reasoning systems, autonomous policy frameworks, cross-domain detection and response concepts (xOps), and platform-wide intelligence capabilities.
You will combine deep technical expertise with strong leadership and execution skills -identifying impactful research directions, building a high-performing team, and turning advanced research into real platform capabilities used by thousands of customers worldwide.
Responsibilities
Technical Vision & Strategy
Define and execute the roadmap for cross-product research initiatives.
Identify high-leverage research opportunities that impact multiple domains and products.
Drive long-term architectural thinking and influence platform evolution.
Balance innovation, experimentation, and production-readiness.
Team Leadership
Recruit, mentor, and grow a multidisciplinary team of researchers (AI, data, algorithms, networking, security).
Establish high standards for research rigor, experimentation methodology, and engineering quality.
Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and technical excellence.
Research & Execution
Lead complex, ambiguous research initiatives from ideation through validation and productionization.
Design large-scale experiments and validation methodologies using our companys data platform.
Drive innovation in areas such as:
Autonomous policy systems
Cross-domain detection and response frameworks
Large-scale reasoning and decision systems
Data-driven optimization and automation capabilities
Ensure research outcomes are measurable, scalable, and aligned with business impact.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
Work closely with Product, Engineering, Architecture, and Product Research teams to translate research into shipped capabilities.
Provide technical guidance and influence cross-organizational decisions.
Act as a bridge between exploratory research and production systems.
Communication & Influence
Present research findings and strategic recommendations to senior leadership.
Produce clear technical documentation, design proposals, and internal position papers.
Represent Platform Research as a center of excellence for cross-product innovation.

We are seeking a Cyber Research Architect to join our cutting-edge Research Group. This is a full-time hybrid role where you will play a key part in shaping how our products evolve from a cyber perspective, operating as an innovation hub within the company.

You will have the freedom to explore new domains, identify gaps in our products, and pioneer techniques that will directly shape our product architecture and capabilities. From researching emerging technologies to discovering vulnerabilities and developing advanced attacks, you will push the boundaries of whats possible in automated offensive security.

Roles and Responsibilities:

Lead offensive research and vulnerability discovery across diverse and emerging technologies, identifying novel attack surfaces and spearheading new research domains.
Pioneer research into AI/ML systems and LLM-based applications, uncovering adversarial tactics and developing unique attack vectors.
Directly shape product architecture by converting research insights into scalable, high-fidelity offensive capabilities and sophisticated attack modules.
Architect and build advanced tools and frameworks that automate and scale security research operations across the organization.
Identify and emulate the most sophisticated real-world cyber attacks to continuously evolve the company's automated security validation engine.

We are seeking a Senior Security Researcher - AI Security to join our highly technical product research team working at the core of our cloud security platform. This is a rare opportunity to define a new discipline. AI security is an emerging field with few established playbooks, and you will help write them. In this role, you will own the research direction for AI security across Tenable's platform, uncovering novel risks in AI-native systems and translating that knowledge into product capabilities and industry-leading research. You'll be surrounded by experienced researchers and engineers who live and breathe security, with the space and backing to do original work in a domain that is rapidly evolving.
We're looking for an exceptional security researcher who can navigate ambiguity, think like an attacker, and bring clarity to a space that lacks it. You're curious, technically deep, and energized by the challenge of defining risk in systems that are still being understood.

Your Role:

Be at the forefront of an emerging discipline. Conduct technical analysis of AI frameworks, services, and architectures to discover novel risks, vulnerabilities, and attack vectors before they become industry-wide problems .
Define AI security risk by analyzing how exposure is created and exploited in AI systems. Collaborate with engineering and product teams to translate AI research into product findings.
Evaluate the risk of pre-trained models, vector databases, and orchestration frameworks (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex) to define how shadow AI creates organizational exposure.
Author blogs, whitepapers, and technical advisories that set the industry narrative. Present original research at leading conferences and serve as Tenable's external voice on AI risk topics.
Analyze AI systems from an attacker's perspective to define trust boundaries, map attack techniques, and identify exploitable paths. Translate findings into product features and outbound research.
Investigate and analyze AI infrastructures and services to find 0-day vulnerabilities, security holes, weaknesses, and design flaws.

As a senior researcher and tech lead on the team, you will play a pivotal role in conducting security research while mentoring and guiding fellow researchers to scale our capabilities. Beyond your individual contributions, you'll help establish research methodologies, foster collaboration, and build a culture of technical excellence within our growing team.

This role provides a unique opportunity to join a team with strategic importance for protecting our customers from emerging threats and novel attack methodologies in cloud environments. You will get to work with vast datasets, have a direct impact on the efficacy and evolution of our detections, and play a decisive role in the strategic direction of our product development. Your contributions will enable continuous improvement of cloud detection capabilities while helping develop the next generation of security researchers.

What You'll Do
Initiate and conduct Cloud Research Initiatives: Follow the threat landscape to identify trends in the realm of cloud infrastructure security, threat actors, novel attack approaches, and vulnerabilities in cloud-based and/or cloud-native environments and workloads.

Research threats and vulnerabilities in cloud provider infrastructure and containerized applications and workloads.

Develop advanced cloud security models: Create sophisticated models and frameworks for identifying and mitigating new types of cloud threats, focusing on predictive analytics and proactive threat hunting methodologies.

Lead and mentor research efforts: Guide fellow researchers in technical decision-making, establish research best practices and methodologies, and foster knowledge sharing within the team to build collective expertise.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams: Work closely with various teams, including engineering, product management, detection engineering, and threat intelligence to drive cloud detections in the Falcon platform.

Coordinate research initiatives: Lead technical discussions, prioritize research objectives within your area of responsibility, and ensure alignment with broader team goals and product roadmap.