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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 an experienced, visionary Cyber Research Team Lead to guide and grow a multidisciplinary cyber research team. You will lead a group of domain experts - from network engineers and identity specialists, to red-teamers, protocol researchers, penetration testers, data analysts and cloud/virtualization experts - working collaboratively to build our next-gen AI-based posture management platform. As team lead, you will both manage the team and shape the research agenda: coordinating cross-domain investigations, defining priorities, mentoring researchers, and ensuring that research output feeds directly into scalable, intelligent workflows and product capabilities.
If youre passionate about cyber research, enjoy nurturing technical talent, and thrive on building complex, multi-domain security products - this is your chance to build and lead a research team that defines how AI defends modern enterprise infrastructure.
The Responsibilities
Lead, mentor, and coordinate a diverse, multi-domain cyber research team.
Define and drive the teams research agenda, establishing multi-domain security research priorities aligned with company goals and product roadmap.
Translate research findings into actionable AI-based deliverables - such as automated workflows and agentic flows integrated into the AI-based posture management product.
Coordinate and work in multidisciplinary squads to build customer facing product, ensuring real-world relevance and impact.
Maintain research excellence and innovation culture - encourage internal knowledge-sharing, code/tool reuse, and continuous learning.
Recruit, grow, and manage talent -identify skill gaps, hire new researchers, mentor researchers, and foster a collaborative, high-performance team environment.
Stay current with emerging cyber threats, infrastructure trends (cloud, virtualization, identity systems), adversarial techniques and AI-driven security trends - and evolve research strategies accordingly.

our company Cloud Security is 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 our company'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 our company'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.

Were looking for a Senior Security Researcher to drive high-impact research across cloud, runtime, and application environments, and translate it into product-grade detections. This is a hands-on role for someone who can lead investigations end-to-end: from understanding attacker tradecraft and vulnerabilities, through building reliable detection logic, to influencing product direction.
On a typical day youll:
Lead deep-dive research into real-world attacks, vulnerabilities, and emerging cloud and runtime techniques
Own complex investigations (DFIR, threat hunting, root-cause analysis) and convert learnings into durable detections
Design and implement advanced detection logic and analytics across cloud assets, containers, Kubernetes, and Linux runtime telemetry
Build prototypes and production-ready components that improve detection accuracy, fidelity, and coverage
Partner closely with engineering and product to shape roadmap priorities and guide implementation details
Develop research methodologies, testing frameworks, and validation processes for new detections
Mentor and level up other researchers and engineers through reviews, knowledge sharing, and technical guidance
Represent the team externally through publications, technical blogs, and conference talks.

our company Cloud Security is 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 our company'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 our company'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 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.

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 a leading hybrid-cloud security company revolutionizing the way organizations manage cyber risk. We provide cutting-edge exposure management solutions by simulating real-world attack paths across cloud and on-prem environments. Our technology identifies misconfigurations, vulnerabilities, and identity exposures, allowing organizations to remediate risks with minimal effort. We are looking for a brilliant and motivated Product Management Intern to join our product team. This is a unique opportunity to sit at the intersection of Cybersecurity Research and Software Development, to add AI capabilities to the product. You wont just be watching. You'll be working with the Product group to brainstorm and TEST new AI-powered features for our platform.
Responsibilities:
* AI-driven research: use LLMs and AI tools to find better ways to explain and fix complex security issues. Use Python to analyze datasets and benchmark prompt performance to ensure AI accuracy in security contexts. Rapid Prototyping: Build functional Proof of Concepts (POCs) for AI Agents that automate complex security workflows. This includes enhancement to server-side attack simulation logic using Node.js, MongoDB.
* Work with Python and Node.js to develop innovative security solutions.
* Translate new cloud attack techniques into logic that our AI can simulate and explain.
* Collaborate with the development team to maintain and improve existing AI infrastructure.

Lead and grow the team in charge of researching and developing Autopilot, an innovative product for graph-based fully-autonomous investigation and response (Over the Cortex platform).
As the manager of the Autopilot team, you'll lead a team of security researchers, set the project's technical vision and standards, and own its success.
You will lead an innovative team on the research, design, and development of a new graph-oriented security product. Creating investigation modules that allow Autopilot to autonomously detect, investigate, and respond to advanced threats at a massive scale.
You'll work closely with other development and product teams to turn a successful POC into a full-fledged product, staying agile in a dynamic environment and using data-driven empirical research to determine and drive the project in the best direction.
Youll analyze everything from new malware behaviors to attacker techniques and process activity in enterprise-scale networks, using data collected from across millions of endpoints. Your work will span identifying attack patterns and uncovering statistical anomalies, as well as validating that the system responds effectively to real-world attacks and APT campaigns using production data.
Key Responsibilities
Lead and developa team of security researchers, providing mentorship, guidance, and continuous feedback to help them grow their careers (Manage the team, develop the people).
Drive the research strategy and executionfor new autonomous methods for investigating and responding to targeted attackers, leveraging large-scale XDR data and graph-based algorithms.
Ensure collaboration with engineering, product, and other research teams, acting as a key interface to push the project forward and align on cross-functional goals.
Direct the team's work on deep, hands-on investigations of real incidents to reinforce the best investigation and response approach, leveraging a combination of os-internals, TTPs, semi-labeled data, and large-scale statistical methods.
Foster a disruptive environment that innovates using advanced techniques such as graph algorithms, machine learning, and LLM agents to mimic and scale human security analyst workflows.

We are looking for a visionary VP of Research to lead our elite research group, based out of our Tel Aviv R&D center. Reporting directly to the CTO, you will be responsible for the companys threat research strategy, driving original vulnerability discovery, and ensuring our "Hackers Playbook" remains the most comprehensive in the industry.

This is a highly visible role that balances deep technical leadership with external evangelism. You will not only manage a team of top-tier security researchers but also serve as the public face of our research. You will be presenting at major global conferences, briefing executive customers, and shaping the industry narrative on offensive security.

THE IMPACT YOU WILL HAVE

Research Leadership & Strategy

Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of security and threat researchers.
Define the research roadmap, balancing original vulnerability research (novel attack vectors) with threat intelligence (analyzing emerging APTs, ransomware, and TTPs).
Foster a culture of innovation, guiding the team to discover new attack surfaces in Windows, Linux, macOS, and LLMs.
Thought Leadership & Evangelism

Serve as a primary spokesperson . You must have a proven track record of speaking at top-tier industry conferences (e.g., Black Hat, DEF CON, RSA, BlueHat).
Drive the creation of high-impact technical content, including white papers, technical blogs, and press commentary on breaking security news.
Represent in the media and create relationships with the broader security community.
Product & Business Alignment

Collaborate closely with Product Management and R&D to translate research findings into product capabilities.
Ensure our customers are protected against the latest threats (e.g., US-CERT alerts, Flash reports) within hours of disclosure.
Customer Engagement

Act as a trusted advisor to C-level executives (CISOs, CIOs) at our strategic customers.
Support the Sales and Customer Success teams by providing deep technical insights during high-stakes briefings and QBRs.