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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 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 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.

Were looking for driven and talented people like you to join our team and our mission to change the future of cloud security. Ready to dive in and swim with our pod?
As the Head of Research, you will lead Securitys 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 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 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're seeking a Senior Security Researcher & Team Lead to own and drive Zenity's security research domain from the ground up. This is a leadership-first role - you'll build and guide a research team, define a new frontier in AI and agentic security, and shape the methodologies and standards that don't yet exist in the industry. If you thrive in ambiguity, love creating structure where there is none, and want to leave a real mark on an emerging security domain, this role is for you.
You'll investigate emerging attack surfaces, architect and implement detection mechanisms, and validate your findings in production environments protecting Fortune 500 customers. It's a high-ownership position that blends deep technical research with strategic thinking and team leadership - with a real sense of urgency to shape the AI security landscape not just for Zenity, but for the entire security community.
Responsibilities:
Lead and mentor a security research team, driving vulnerability and threat research that generates product value and protects Fortune 500 customers in production environments.
Take end-to-end ownership of detection mechanism design for agentic AI applications - from initial hypothesis through experimentation to production-grade implementation.
Apply expertise across cloud, identity, web, and API security to map and address the evolving AI threat landscape.
Apply LLMs, Agentic AI, and machine learning models to detect security vulnerabilities.
Collaborate closely with engineering and product teams to translate research into actionable, shippable security capabilities.

We're looking for a talented AI Security Researcher to join our team and play a critical role in our company's foundational, risk-driven approach to cloud security. This role requires deep technical research into complex cloud- and AI-native environments to identify the most significant, unaddressed risks.
WHAT YOULL DO
Conduct deep technical research to discover and report novel risks and attack vectors specific to modern cloud- and AI-native architectures and systems.
Discover and articulate the highest unaddressed risk areas, working with Product and Engineering teams to translate research into product capabilities.
Define necessary foundational product capabilities by delivering both compelling proofs of risk (demonstrating impact) and technical POCs (showing how to solve it).
Work closely with Product and Engineering teams to ensure comprehensive risk coverage and support the investigation of new and complex product scope.

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 :
Lead the design and implementation of AI-driven detection and response strategies to automate complex security investigations.
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
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.

Why GeoEdge? GeoEdge is the global leader in ad security and quality, trusted by hundreds of the world's top ad platforms, publishers, and app developers. Our mission is simple: make the internet safer by stopping malicious, deceptive, and low-quality ads before they ever reach a user. For over a decade, we've protected the integrity of the digital advertising ecosystem with real-time technology that empowers our partners to deliver clean, trustworthy user experiences.
The Role We're looking for a Security Research Team Lead to join a team of security researchers, operations analysts, and data scientists who continuously hunt for threats, evaluate emerging attack vectors, and develop innovative detection techniques in the field of malvertising. This is a hands-on leadership role. You'll drive detection innovation, mentor researchers, and deliver work that has a direct and measurable impact on protecting users and customers from malicious advertising at scale.
?Responsibilities
* Design and implement new methodologies to identify and stop malvertising attacks before they reach end users
* Research and develop signal-collection strategies across mobile and desktop environments to strengthen detection
* Map adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures employed by malvertisers and related threat actors
* Translate customer-specific security requirements into actionable research that consistently exceeds expectations
* Publish findings through blog posts, conference presentations, and industry engagements
* Hunt threats proactively across the internet, reverse-engineer attack execution, and produce thorough technical documentation
* Build scripts and tooling to streamline workflows and amplify the team's productivity
* Mentor and lead junior researchers, contributing to team-level metrics and a strong research culture
* Stay ahead of emerging threats and developments across the cybersecurity landscape

The Fraud Lead is the principal technical authority for fraud detection and response engine. You own the professional logic that powers our product, ensuring that the "Brain" of our platform is technically cohesive, scientifically rigorous, and market-leading.
You act as a System Architect for the fraud domain, connecting the dots between Research, Data Science, and Analytics. Crucially, you serve as the primary technical consultant for our customers, helping them understand, integrate, and optimize the fraud logic that protects their environments. You work alongside a separate Product group (who defines the roadmap) and a Platform Engineering group (who builds the infrastructure).
What youll do:
Technical Domain Architecture
Logic Blueprinting: Design the end-to-end technical logic for detection features-from telemetry ingestion to real-time response actions.
Cross-Team "Glue": Ensure that Fraud Research insights are effectively operationalized by the Data Science team and surfaced correctly by the Analytics team.
Architecture Governance: Set the technical standards for how detection logic is built, ensuring it is scalable and compatible with the Platform Engineering teams infrastructure.
Customer Fronting & Technical Advisory
Technical Subject Matter Expert: Act as the lead technical consultant for high-value customers. You will lead "deep-dive" sessions with client-side engineers and fraud experts to explain our detection methodologies and data requirements.
Integration Strategy: Advise customers on how to best leverage our technical logic within their specific business contexts.
Feedback Loop: Translate complex customer technical needs and "edge case" fraud patterns back into technical requirements for the internal fraud group.
Expert Implementation
Hands-on Prototyping: Remain an expert practitioner in Python and SQL. You will prototype new detection methodologies and perform technical validation of production models.
Quality & Observability: Design the technical frameworks that ensure our detection logic remains performant and observable in live customer environments.

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
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.

Required Offensive Security Team Lead
As an Offensive Security Team Lead, you will spearhead our 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 our 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 our 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 our 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 looking for a hands-on security researcher who combines an attacker mindset, fraud-domain curiosity, strong technical depth, and data analysis skills. You will investigate real-world fraud patterns, reproduce attacker techniques, analyze telemetry, enrich our data collection capabilities, discover new security signals, and work closely with product, data, and engineering teams to turn research insights into production-grade detection and prevention mechanisms.
This role is especially relevant for researchers with experience in browser technologies, mobile-native applications, or both. You may work on desktop and mobile browsers, browser APIs, browser automation, client-side signals, native mobile applications, Android/iOS behavior, mobile security, emulators, device signals, and mobile automation.
You will help expand our visibility into new signals and patterns that improve fraud detection, model performance, and customer protection.
If you are a talented researcher who enjoys solving complex problems, working with messy real-world data, and building practical defenses against modern fraud and abuse, we want you to join our team.