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Are you an innovative security researcher with a deep understanding of Linux systems and a passion for protecting modern environments? Do you want to lead the charge in securing enterprise networks against the latest threats?
We're looking for a skilled professional to join our team, focusing on the critical and rapidly evolving fields of Linux Security. You'll be a foundational member of a new and growing team dedicated to the blue ocean of detection, developing multiple new capabilities within the largest cybersecurity enterprise in the world.
This is a unique opportunity to apply your expertise and influence the future of threat prevention-helping us build cutting-edge security solutions from the ground up.
Key Responsibilitie
Play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our security solutions.
Enhance product effectiveness by designing advanced protection components and developing sophisticated detection rules.
Research Linux OS internals, virtualized environments, and malware behaviors to inform and strengthen our attack prevention mechanisms.
Apply advanced AI and big data approaches to investigate and analyze large-scale datasets across our client base.
Lead research on novel protection concepts and bring them to production-grade quality, serving as a subject matter expert.
Stay up to date with the latest attacker methodologies, APT campaigns, and TTPs targeting Linux systems.
Conduct static and dynamic reverse engineering of Linux malware to uncover new techniques and develop mitigation strategies.
Collaborate closely with engineering, product management, and other research teams to translate research findings into production features.

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.

As a Research Infra Engineer, you will build and operate the shared platforms that power our companys cyber research: data ingestion, connectivity to internal/external systems, scalable analysis environments, and self-serve tools which allow the team moving faster.
Youll partner closely with CyberAI researchers to translate research needs into reliable, secure, cloud-deployed capabilities used across the group. Your goals are to reduces research-toil, improves reproducibility and code quality, and accelerates the path from prototype to shared capability.
Responsibilities
Design, implement, and iterate on internal platforms that support research workflows (e.g., data ingestion, enrichment, indexing, search, labeling, evaluation harnesses, experiment tooling).
Develop durable pipelines and connectors to bring in and normalize research data sources.
Create reusable libraries, templates, CLIs, and services that enable researchers to run analyses and experiments safely and repeatably.
Own deployments, reliability, observability, access control, and cost/performance of the research stack so its usable by all researchers.
Work closely with CyberAI researchers on the development of next-generation artificial cyber researchers and AI-driven analysis capabilities.

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. Palo Alto Networks 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 Palo Alto Networks 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 Palo Alto Networks 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.

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. Palo Alto Networks 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 Palo Alto Networks 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 Palo Alto Networks 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.

What you will do
Research threat actors, campaigns, and techniques relevant to browser extensions, SaaS apps, autonomous agents, MCP/tooling ecosystems, and related endpoint behaviors.
Build and maintain threat intelligence: TTPs, IOCs where appropriate, ATT&CK-style mappings, and internal knowledge bases.
Design, test, and tune detection logic (behavioral rules, heuristics, models, or equivalent) in collaboration with detection and data science teams.
Analyze customer and telemetry datasets to find novel abuse patterns, false positives, and detection gaps.
Produce clear outputs for multiple audiences: technical blogs, customer-facing briefings, internal playbooks, and engineering specs.
Work with reverse engineering, data engineering, and product to turn research into durable platform capabilities.
Participate in incident-driven research and time-sensitive investigations when new threats emerge.

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.

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.

What you will do
Research threat actors, campaigns, and techniques relevant to browser extensions, SaaS apps, autonomous agents, MCP/tooling ecosystems, and related endpoint behaviors.
Build and maintain threat intelligence: TTPs, IOCs where appropriate, ATT&CK-style mappings, and internal knowledge bases.
Design, test, and tune detection logic (behavioral rules, heuristics, models, or equivalent) in collaboration with detection and data science teams.
Analyze customer and telemetry datasets to find novel abuse patterns, false positives, and detection gaps.
Produce clear outputs for multiple audiences: technical blogs, customer-facing briefings, internal playbooks, and engineering specs.
Work with reverse engineering, data engineering, and product to turn research into durable platform capabilities.
Participate in incident-driven research and time-sensitive investigations when new threats emerge.

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.