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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.

our company is the world leader in accelerated computing, defining the future of ai and high-performance networking. we are seeking a highly skilled and proactive senior Cyber security threat intelligence (cti) analyst to join the networking product security team. in this critical role, you will function as a key defender of the technologies powering the worlds largest ai clusters. you will act as the eyes and ears of our product security organization, conducting investigative research into sophisticated adversaries and translating complex threat data into actionable intelligence. this is a hands-on role where your insights will directly influence our defensive posture and help eliminate threats before they manifest in the core of global ai infrastructure.
what you will be doing:
you will serve as the intelligence core of our team dedicated to identifying, analyzing, and mitigating threats against our products and ecosystem:
lead deep-dive osint and webint research to identify emerging threats, conducting intelligence collection and analysis that leads to clear, actionable mitigation recommendations.
leverage scripting ( Python, bash, etc.) and generative ai tools to automate intelligence collection, triage, and analysis workflows.
analyze advanced persistent threats (apts) and sophisticated adversaries, collaborating with multi-functional teams to detect, track, and eliminate potential risks to our networking portfolio.
apply extensive insight into cyber operation phases to map adversary behavior, anticipate future movements, and harden our product development lifecycle with adoption of security improvements.
drive threat hunting methodologies, proactively searching for indicators of compromise (iocs) and hidden vulnerabilities within the products.
translate complex technical findings into strategic intelligence reports for both technical collaborators and leadership, ensuring a clear and unified insight into the threat landscape.
collaborate closely with incident response and engineering teams to ensure intelligence findings are seamlessly coordinated into other defensive tools and product security processes.

we are looking for a Offensive Security Team Lead.
As an Offensive Security Team Lead, you will spearhead offensive security operations and lead advanced threat research initiatives, playing a pivotal role in safeguarding our organization and customers from evolving cyber threats. You will develop and execute Red Team exercises, simulate real-world attacks, and identify security weaknesses in systems and applications. We seek a highly skilled, proactive tech leader who thrives in challenging environments and is passionate about advancing security research and offensive strategies.
As an Offensive Security Team Lead , you will
Lead, plan, design, and execute Red Team operations, threat modeling, and adversarial simulations against infrastructure and cloud environments
Drive threat research and intelligence initiatives to stay ahead of emerging cyber threats, attack techniques, and vulnerabilities
Develop and execute advanced attack scenarios to assess security defenses and provide actionable recommendations for improving security posture
Collaborate closely with security engineering, DevOps, and software development teams to implement findings and enhance our defenses
Lead the development of tooling, frameworks, and methodologies to automate and optimize Red Team exercises
Mentor and guide a team of security professionals, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning
Participate in incident responses when Red Team exercises reveal vulnerabilities, providing expertise on attack techniques, forensics, and post-attack mitigation
Continuously assess and improve security processes, playbooks, and threat detection mechanisms

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.

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 are seeking an experienced Vulnerability Researcher to join our team, where our ethos of customer-centric problem solving, ownership, professionalism, and resourcefulness are at the heart of everything we do. The team faces complex research issues daily, solving new challenges and constantly improving the existing solutions. In this key position, you'll dive deep into complex security puzzles, pushing the boundaries of our vulnerability research and solutions. Collaborating on challenges with our team means working with the leading cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and leveraging advanced technologies like Kubernetes, EBPF, Docker, and more.
Responsibilities :
Vulnerability research in the major Cloud providers and cutting-edge technologies.
Collaborate with teams across the organization, including Product, and GTM, to develop and integrate top-tier features.
Conduct deep technical research into cloud-native environments.
Lead offensive investigations in Kubernetes, eBPF, AI/ML‑based anomaly detection, and runtime security, translating findings into production‑grade detections.
Create authoritative content - white‑papers, conference papers, blogs, and release notes that educate users and elevate brand.
Deep dive into threat detection and product content that provide our customers deep insights and added value.

The Security & Information team is looking for someone who is passionate about technology and has a roll-up-their-sleeves mentality to join our global team. Youll play a crucial role in enhancing our security infrastructure, improving networking, ensuring scalability, and maintaining strong security as we continue to grow. If you want to be an industry leader, on a team experiencing hyper-growth, look no further!
Responsibilities :
Operates as the primary escalation point for critical security alerts, performing deep-dive DFIR investigations, analyzing attacker techniques and vectors, proactively hunting threats, and directing incident response activities.
Lead SecOps projects from inception to execution, ensuring effective implementation and ongoing maintenance.
Mentor a team of SecOps experts, providing technical guidance in a fast-paced environment.
Research how to leverage security telemetry and existing security solutions to improve triage and automated response.
Work cross-functionally to refine and evolve agentic workflows that drive automated security operations.
Coordinate investigation, containment, and other response activities with business stakeholders and groups.
Perform hands-on forensic investigations, log reviews, cloud investigations, and root-cause analysis
Develop incident analysis and findings reports for management, including gap identification and recommendations for improvement.

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.

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 products adhere to the stringent security requirements of our thousands of customers.
As an Application Security Team Lead you will
Build, lead, and mentor a team of AppSec Engineers
Lead the development of Internal Security tools and AI agents
Design and implement SSDLC practices and automated security controls across the CI/CD pipeline
Build and operate scalable vulnerability management frameworks across cloud-native services and SaaS products
Integrate security into Agile and DevOps processes, including threat modeling, SAST, DAST, and SCA
Partner with development and DevOps teams to embed security early and often
Contribute to secure code reviews and assist with remediation strategies
Track, triage, and report vulnerabilities across product lines
Provide technical leadership and drive adoption of secure development best practices
Define and measure AppSec KPIs and drive continuous improvement

As a Senior Threat Intelligence Researcher, you will be responsible for tracking advanced adversaries and leveraging your deep technical expertise across attacker capabilities, infrastructure, and tactics. You will create and refine approaches to uncover and monitor active threat actors, as well as surface irregular and emerging behaviors in the broader threat landscape. The intelligence you generate will directly strengthen our companys understanding of threat actors and will inform proactive hunting, detection engineering, and defensive decision-making.
The Responsibilities
Lead complex threat intelligence investigations through in-depth analysis of the global threat landscape, with a focus on advanced and state-linked actors.
Define and prioritize threat research focus areas (actors, campaigns, sectors, techniques) aligned with our companys customers and product roadmap.
Deliver actionable cyber threat intelligence and design and execute hunting campaigns using analytics, automation, and advanced AI capabilities.
Curate and maintain structured knowledge on actors, campaigns, infrastructure, and TTPs in our companys internal threat knowledge base.
Work closely with CyberAI researchers on the development of next-generation artificial cyber researchers and AI-driven analysis capabilities.