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As a Security Research Team Leader, you will lead a high-impact research team dedicated to decoding the "DNA" of enterprise assets, from Cloud instances to Industrial OT. You will bridge the gap between deep technical discovery and product innovation for our CAM and CPA lines. You will drive the transition from manual research to AI-automated intelligence at scale within a collaborative environment.
Responsibilities
Team Leadership: Directly manage and mentor a specialized team of researchers, overseeing task prioritization and professional development.
AI Integration: Implement AI and LLM-driven workflows to automate asset identification, fingerprinting, and technical documentation parsing.
Cross-Functional Synergy: Act as the primary technical liaison between Research, Product (CAM/OT), and Engineering to translate findings into features.
Technical Deep Dives: Lead research into network protocols (TCP/IP) and device signatures to improve discovery and classification engines.
Data-Driven Strategy: Use Python and SQL to query massive datasets, identify emerging asset patterns, and build functional research scripts.

As an Asset Intelligence Research Manager, you will lead a high-impact research team dedicated to decoding the "DNA" of enterprise assets, from Cloud instances to Industrial OT. You will bridge the gap between deep technical discovery and product innovation for our CAM and CPA lines. You will drive the transition from manual research to AI-automated intelligence at scale within a collaborative environment.

Responsibilities
Team Leadership: Directly manage and mentor a specialized team of researchers, overseeing task prioritization and professional development.
AI Integration: Implement AI and LLM-driven workflows to automate asset identification, fingerprinting, and technical documentation parsing.
Cross-Functional Synergy: Act as the primary technical liaison between Research, Product (CAM/OT), and Engineering to translate findings into features.
Technical Deep Dives: Lead research into network protocols (TCP/IP) and device signatures to improve discovery and classification engines.
Data-Driven Strategy: Use Python and SQL to query massive datasets, identify emerging asset patterns, and build functional research scripts.

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.

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 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.

We are looking for a hands-on Security Research Team Lead to own and scale our Security Research domain.

This is a foundational role in a small, highly technical team, focused on deep security research, algorithmic thinking, and leveraging AI to turn complex data into accurate, actionable security insights.

This role is not about people management by default - it is about technical leadership, ownership, and building scalable research capabilities that directly impact product and customer security.

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Responsibilities:

Own and lead the Security Research domain through hands-on technical work.
Research security risks in SaaS and business applications, including permissions, identities, and access models.
Design and apply algorithmic approaches to analyze complex data structures and security risk surfaces.
Leverage AI-based techniques to work with large-scale data, improve accuracy, and automate research workflows.
Detect security flaws, misconfigurations, and systemic risks in SaaS environments.
Lead and support complex security investigations and customer-facing incident research.
Work closely with Product and Engineering to translate research findings into scalable product capabilities.
Technically mentor and support a small and growing research team.
Define research priorities and help shape how the team scales over time.

we are seeking a highly motivated and talented XDR Research Engineer to join our XDR Research team. In this role, you will develop advanced detection logic to identify and analyze security threats across the company XDR platform. Leveraging the rich data available in the company Cloud data lake, you will conduct extensive research and threat-hunting activities to broaden our detection capabilities and proactively uncover previously unknown threats.
Your work will directly influence the evolution of our companys XDR capabilities and strengthen the security posture of thousands of global customers.
This is an exceptional opportunity for security professionals passionate about Network Security, Detection Engineering, Malware Analysis, and Threat Hunting who want to make a meaningful impact on a fast-growing cybersecurity environment.
Responsibilities
Develop advanced detection logic for the XDR platform to identify security threats.
Conduct research using our company Cloud data, competitive intelligence, and newly published threat reports to expand detection coverage.
Create hunting heuristics and methodologies to uncover unknown or emerging threats.
Continuously improve detection accuracy and enhance the platforms ability to identify threats in a dynamic security landscape.
Participate in cybersecurity breach investigations and security incident activities.
Contribute to technical blogs and PR materials, and participate in cybersecurity conferences.

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.

In this role, you will be the architect of our "security brain." You will write the low-level code that observes what is happening (eBPF/Golang) and build the AI models that understand, diagnose, and prevent issues (LLMs/Python).
Key Responsibilities
1. The "Eyes": eBPF Development & Systems Engineering
Lead the Cimon Agent: Spearhead the active development of our high-performance eBPF agent "Cimon" using Golang and C.
Kernel-Level Innovation: Design and implement eBPF programs for deep observability, runtime security, and container monitoring.
Performance Obsession: Write beautiful, highly efficient code that runs in the Linux kernel with minimal overhead.
Community Leadership: Actively participate in the eBPF and open-source communities, contributing code and presenting technical deep dives at conferences.
2. The "Brain": AI Innovation & Security Research
AI-Driven Security Solutions: Architect and prototype models for:
Automated Exploitability: Checking SAST/SCA findings for validity.
AI Remediation: Automatically fixing Dockerfile misconfigurations and generating patches.
Model Detection: Identifying AI models embedded within codebases.
Benchmarking & Rigor: Design evaluation frameworks to measure model accuracy, false positives, and robustness in security contexts.
Prompt Engineering: Shape prompt strategies and workflows to translate real-world security challenges into actionable AI logic.
3. The Intersection: Collaboration & Evangelism
Cross-Functional Leadership: Serve as the technical link between the AI development team and the core security engineering team.
Thought Leadership: Author whitepapers, technical blogs, and deliver talks on the cutting edge of "AI for Systems Security."
Mentorship: Guide engineers on best practices for both low-level systems design and AI integration.
Why This Role?
No Context Switching Cost: You won't just be researching; you will be building the tools you research. You control the data collection (eBPF) and the analysis (AI).
Deep Tech Focus: This isn't a wrapper-API role. You will be dealing with kernel bypasses, memory safety, and LLM hallucinations all in the same week.
Impact: Your work will directly power the next generation of automated security remediation.

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.