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The Cyber Threat Intelligence Hunter will sit within Unit 42 Managed Threat Hunting and support proactive, intelligence-led hunting across customer environments. This role combines hands-on threat hunting with cyber threat intelligence analysis, helping multinational organizations stay one step ahead of adversaries and cyber threats.
Key Responsibilities
Analyze public and private threat intelligence, Unit 42 research, adversary campaigns, malware activity, infrastructure, indicators, and TTPs.
Translate threat intelligence into actionable hunting hypotheses, investigation workflows, hunting queries, and customer-facing findings.
Execute existing threat hunting reports and hunting workflows, investigate results, and support timely customer reporting.
Investigate scheduled hunt detections and compose clear, professional reports when relevant.
Investigate hunting leads based on IOCs, threat intelligence, internal detections, customer telemetry, and emerging adversary behaviors.
Monitor the threat landscape and prepare initial context for emerging campaigns, enabling the global team to continue deeper investigation and hunting.
Collaborate with threat hunters, detection engineers, incident responders, MDR, and Unit 42 researchers to operationalize intelligence quickly and effectively.
Escalate major, unclear, or high-impact security events to the Threat Hunting leadership team when necessary.
Provide ongoing feedback on findings, hunting reports, queries, intelligence workflows, and operational processes to support continuous improvement.

The Cortex Threat Intelligence team is responsible for maintaining an up-to-date overview of the ever-changing threat landscape and its effects on the Cortex product suite. This includes the collection, analysis, and dissemination of technical threat intelligence from multiple internal and external sources. As part of this role, you will identify detection opportunities, automate threat intelligence processes, and develop tools and methodologies to increase team productivity. our company's Cortex XDR is a market-leading platform with an almost unparalleled telemetry data lake. Our team is deeply data-driven; it is the ideal environment for analysts who are enthusiastic about data mining, tracking threat actors, and deconstructing complex cyberattacks.
Key Responsibilities
Monitor the global threat landscape using diverse sources to proactively identify potential coverage gaps and improve Cortex XDRs defensive posture.
Perform in-depth research into cyberattack techniques to provide actionable insights and suggestions for improving product capabilities.
Leverage our company's telemetry datasets to identify emerging attack patterns and hunt for novel threats.
Design and propose robust detection logic across multiple operating systems (Windows, macOS, Linux).
Partner with cross-functional teams within our company to communicate findings and co-develop security enhancements.
Transform technical intelligence into high-impact deliverables, including customer-facing reports, research articles for the company blog, or presentations at international security conferences.

We're looking for a Senior Principal Threat Hunter to serve as a senior technical leader within our Cyber Defense Team team.

This is a high impact individual contributor role, you won't manage people, but you'll influence how we hunt, investigate

and respond to threats across cloud and SaaS environments at scale.

You'll be the person who takes a weak signal, a piece of emerging intelligence, or an unusual customer activity pattern and turns it into a meaningful investigation, a proactive hunt, or a new detection opportunity.

You'll lead the most complex investigations, drive threat intelligence initiatives, and help define the hunting methodologies that guide our customers' security outcomes.

As one of the team's most senior practitioners, you'll act as a force multiplier across hunting, intelligence, and incident response functions, elevating technical standards, mentoring peers, and helping shape the future of our detection and response capabilities.

What You'll Do
- Design and execute proactive threat hunts across cloud and SaaS environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, Okta, M365), grounded in current intelligence and ATT&CK-mapped adversary behavior.
- Mature and operate a recurring threat intelligence reporting function, turning intel into hunt leads, detection opportunities, and customer-facing narratives.
- Lead incident response investigations during US business hours, from scoping through root cause; step into the Incident Commander role when required.
- Continuously monitor threat detections and deliver responsive services with thorough event analysis and judgement.
- Triage and investigate security alerts across cloud and SaaS environments, separating true threats from noise and surfacing detection gaps to the detection engineering team.
- Leverage automation and AI tooling to scale impact, and propose improvements for processes, workflows, products, and policies.
- PLUS: Exposure to detection engineering, tooling and automation development, or prior managed services (MSSP) experience.

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.

If you are an innovator at heart and passionate about redefining how organizations secure modern environments end-to-end, we're looking for you. This is an opportunity to join an exceptional group of researchers working on a startup-level product within the largest security company, helping revolutionize how organizations protect their Kubernetes and hybrid cloud environments.
Key Responsibilities
Contribute to a team of talented security researchers focused on defending organizations as they transition from on-premises data centers to modern cloud and Kubernetes infrastructure.
Drive the execution of research initiatives to uncover novel techniques for detecting and responding to sophisticated attacks targeting hybrid and cloud-native environments.
Define and prioritize detection use cases, relevant datasets, and innovative analytic approaches combining runtime visibility and posture management across diverse platforms.
Stay up to date with the latest attacker methodologies, APT campaigns, and TTPs to ensure our detection capabilities stay ahead of evolving threats in both legacy and cloud contexts.
Simulate real-world attacks and perform deep behavioral analysis to inform and validate detection content.
Collaborate across engineering, product management, and go-to-market teams to deliver impactful security solutions.
Share insights with the security community through blogs, conference talks, and publications.

we are looking for highly capable Incident Response Expert. The Incident Response Expert role includes conducting in-depth forensic analysis, investigation and response to real-world cyber threats. A significant part of our investigations is performed onsite at the client location, in collaboration with the clients IT and security teams.
Main Responsibilities:
Participate in forensic and incident response investigations, including large scale sophisticated attacks, conduct log analysis, host and network-based forensics and malware analysis.
Participate in threat hunting: proactively hunt for targeted attacks and new emerging threats in clients networks; as well as security assessments and simulations.
Identify indicators of compromise (IOCs) and tools, tactics, and procedures (TTPs) to help ascertain whether and how breaches have occurred.
Utilize and develop tools and methodologies to improve existing investigative and hunting technological stack.
Collaborate with IT and Security teams during investigations.
Generate and present a comprehensive and professional report of findings from investigations.

We are looking for a Windows Malware Security Researcher for our Tel Aviv R&D center. You will be part of a team that is responsible for researching the most recent and advanced cybersecurity threats, as well as designing, developing, and improving Anti-Malware capabilities to protect against them. The position includes researching OS internals, picking apart malware samples, delving into the internals of Windows kernel and user-mode code, and finding ways to mitigate new attack vectors.
The proposed role will be part of the research team of the Cortex XDR endpoint protection solution.
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Windows Malware Security Researcher to join our growing Windows malware research team of the Cortex XDR agent group. In this role, you will play a key part in enhancing our Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) agent by prototyping new protection components and techniques and developing advanced malware prevention strategies. You will work on identifying, analyzing, and mitigating sophisticated threats, working closely with various teams to drive innovation. A deep understanding of the Windows operating system is essential.
Key Responsibilities
Playing a pivotal role in shaping the future of our security solutions.
Enhance the effectiveness of our EDR product by designing cutting-edge protection components and developing sophisticated prevention rules.
Researching OS internals and how Windows works under the hood - leveraging this knowledge to develop and improve our anti-malware mechanisms and capabilities.
Research and lead novel protection ideas to production-grade level, serving as the feature subject matter expert.
Research new malware and APT mitigation techniques and develop corresponding capabilities (POC level), or improve existing mitigation capabilities.
Respond to malware-based security events at clients' networks.
Stay up to date with current malware and APT techniques.
Provide feedback to the product management team on new feature requests and product enhancements from our customer base.
Find new malware techniques and APT attacks, including analysis of caught-in-the-wild malware.
Operate independently end-to-end - from initial threat idea, through research and POC, to handing off a production-ready design to core agent engineering with clear specs, test cases, and edge-case analysis.
Be a team player who lifts others up - happy to jump in when a teammate is stuck on a tricky Windows internals or RE question, share what you've figured out, and generally make the people around you better.

This role demands a solutions-oriented mindset, as you'll be expected to go above and beyond for customers by driving innovative outcomes. You'll collaborate across multiple teams to craft creative solutions, ensuring we exceed customer expectations and deliver exceptional value. You will leverage extensive resources to provide advanced digital risk monitoring expertise and analysis to safeguard our customers' environments. You will develop a trusted partnership by helping your customer identify and operationalize timely, actionable, and relevant threat intelligence and threat hunt findings.

This position offers exceptional growth opportunities, blending technical mastery with strategic advisory services, all powered by world-class intelligence and hunting capabilities.

Serve as a trusted advisor who maintains ownership of dedicated customer accounts, delivering outstanding experiences that build trust and facilitate high levels of satisfaction across all organizational levels.

Research dark web data and tailor threat intelligence for CAO Elite customer based on their specific requirements and environment

Prepare and deliver customer presentations relating to intelligence reports and dark web alerts on a regular basis

Partner across teams to develop and implement creative solutions that exceed customer expectations, focusing on delivering exceptional outcomes even when faced with complex challenges

Respond to customer requests relating to threat intelligence, threat hunting, and dark web monitoring

As the Manager of the Rapid Response (RR) team, you will lead a group of malware analysts responsible for developing, improving, and deploying our rapid anti-malware prevention capabilities. Your team is on the front lines of statically analyzing urgent customer issues, stopping malicious activities in their tracks, and developing to halt attacks at the earliest possible stage. In this role, you will guide the teams technical direction, drive automation initiatives, and act as the critical bridge between frontline support, global research, and engineering.
Key Responsibilities
Lead, mentor, and develop a team of fast-paced malware analysts, fostering a "play to win" culture.
Oversee the daily triage, investigation, and resolution of urgent customer escalations, specifically False Positive (FP) and False Negative (FN) malware prevention events - ensuring swift and accurate mitigation.
Drive the team's automation efforts, identifying opportunities to automate routines to reduce response times and scale the team's capabilities.
Direct the analysis of emerging malware families, OS internals, and attack frameworks to ensure the team maintains an up-to-date overview of the current threat landscape.
Guide the development of rapid, high-quality prevention signatures (e.g., YARA, IPS) to enhance product coverage.
Act as the primary technical escalation point and work in close coordination with global research teams, support, engineering, and other cross-functional stakeholders.

As an innovator at heart, you will rethink the way SOCs do security. Join the analytics research group to build our analytics module by defining detection use cases, data, and content. You will collaborate with an amazing team of researchers to protect our customers across multiple domains such as Cloud, Kubernetes, SAAS, and Email security while working on a startup-level product within the biggest security company to revolutionize the security market.
Key Responsibilities
Build a startup-level security product within a corporate environment, blending agility with enterprise resources to deliver cutting-edge solutions.
Explore how email threats evolve into Cloud, SaaS, Endpoint, and Network domains, developing detection mechanisms to counter complex attack vectors.
Gain expertise across diverse domains, including endpoint, cloud, and SaaS security, to foster a comprehensive understanding of the threat landscape.
Design advanced detection systems using machine learning and LLMs to identify and mitigate threats.
Simulate and analyze sophisticated attacks to anticipate and counter evolving threats.
Share insights with the security community through blogs, white papers, and conferences.
Collaborate with a skilled team to innovate and enhance security offerings across various domains.