We are seeking a seasoned security leader to manage a high-caliber research team focused on the security of Identity, SaaS, and Cloud ecosystems. In this role, you will provide technical mentorship and strategic vision, guiding research into service risk profiling and adversarial TTPs analysis. You will be the bridge between cutting-edge research and product innovation, ensuring our findings translate into high-impact security outcomes to stay ahead of modern adversaries.
Key Responsibilities
Define the research roadmap for Identity, SaaS, and Cloud risks, ensuring the team's outputs align with the evolving threat landscape and company goals.
Lead and grow a diverse team of security researchers, providing the technical guidance and career development necessary to maintain a world-class research organization.
Leverage your experience in a product-focused environment to ensure research outcomes directly influence service security strategies and customer-facing solutions.
Oversee the execution of high-fidelity attack simulations and TTP deconstruction, ensuring the 'how-to' of secure service usage is clearly defined and actionable.
Partner with Engineering, Product Management, and Threat Intel teams to transform raw research into robust mitigation strategies and resilient service blueprints.
Represent the team's research internally and externally, positioning the organization as a premier authority on Identity-centric and Cloud security.

We are currently hiring for multiple Security Research positions across our Microsoft Defender Research teams in Israel. By applying to this unified pipeline, you will be considered for a high-impact role (at either the Security Researcher II or Senior Security Researcher role) within one of our specialized groups, including Autonomous Attack Disruption, Cloud Workload Protection, Identity Research, Posture Research, or Security for AI.

We are looking for passionate, highly skilled security researchers who thrive on the challenge of breaking complex attacker kill-chains. Leveraging Microsofts dominant market position and the worlds most massive telemetry set, you will have a direct, tangible impact on the security of the global economy. We are looking for researchers who want to see their findings transformed into production-ready protection, where the ultimate goal is not just to detect threats, but to prevent and stop them in near real-time.

Responsibilities

Investigate real world advanced attacker TTPs to develop high-fidelity protection signals, and robust logic across complex kill-chains.

Design and implement innovative capabilities that autonomously prevent, detect and disrupt sophisticated threats in near real-time.

Infuse deep security expertise into the analysis of massive telemetry sets using big-data query languages, reasoning over data to identify novel malicious patterns, and drive evidence-based research decisions.

Partner with engineering and product teams to share research insights, validate protection concepts, and push ideas forward into production-ready protection at a global scale.

Contribute expert insights to a strategic feedback loop by analyzing real-world attack data and telemetry to refine protection coverage and accuracy.

we are looking for a Senior Security Researcher to join our research team. In this role, you will be at the bleeding edge of AI security, leading deep-dive research into AI products, LLM frameworks, and modern Agentic AI ecosystems.
You will combine hands-on defensive and offensive research techniques with cutting-edge platform to analyze modern AI products, dissect non-human identity architectures, and uncover privilege escalation paths in dynamic AI agent workflows. In this role, you will bridge deep security research, product engineering, and technical storytelling turning novel insights into real-world enforcement mechanisms, core platform capabilities, high-impact blogs, and talks at top global security conferences.
What We Do:
The Frontier of Identity and Agentic AI Security
we are pioneering the AI Agent & Non-Human Identity NHI) security space. Research-Driven Innovation
Our research directly powers our product capabilities uncovering complex identity attack vectors, analyzing enterprise AI products, and building security enforcement models for autonomous AI Agents.
Thought Leadership & PR We showcase our findings to the broader security community through technical publications, vulnerability disclosures, and global conference presentations. Innovation via Automation
We use AI Agents ourselves to accelerate research workflows, streamline environment analysis, and build smarter security checks. Direct Market & Product Impact
Our research bridges deep technical investigation and real-world defense, powering core platform enforcement 1 Senior Security Researcher capabilities, threat intelligence, and high-impact advisory for global enterprise customers.

Required Senior/ Principal Security Researcher - Cloud & Kubernetes (Cortex)
Job Summary:
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 a Senior Cyber Data Analyst.
As a Senior Cyber Data Analyst for the Asset Intelligence Research team, you will conduct research to enhance the asset intelligence platform. You will lead end-to-end research projects, collaborating directly with Product and Development teams to convert technical research into product features. You will analyze large-scale security asset data, automate workflows, and prototype logic to address how enterprise assets are discovered, classified, and trusted. This is a high-impact role where your research directly shapes how our customers manage, prioritize and secure their entire assets inventory.
Responsibilities:
Lead end-to-end research projects focusing on asset data quality, fidelity assessment, enrichment, and correlation across device, identity, software, and SaaS asset types.
Utilize Python, SQL, and AI/LLM tools to build data analysis pipelines, automate asset research, and prototype enrichment and classification logic.
Research and define gating conditions that evaluate assets across three dimensions: Existence, classification, and risk and criticality.
Partner with Product and Engineering teams to transform technical research into production-ready product capabilities.

We're looking for a Threat Detection Researcher to join the Threat Research team and spread the power. In this role, you will further develop the Cloud-native Threat Detection domain.
Check out some of our recent research:
Detecting Malicious OAuth Applications
Tracking TeamPCP: Investigating Post-Compromise Attacks Seen in the Wild
Discovers Cloud Email Abuse Campaign
Responsibilities
Drive the full lifecycle of security detections - from threat research and data analysis to building and shipping detection logic directly into production.
Design behavioral baselines for complex cloud environments using diverse signals, and develop high-fidelity detections based on those baselines.
Expand our detection engine with novel and high-impact telemetry sources, pushing the boundaries of what can be detected in modern cloud environments.
Conduct deep technical research into complex cloud services to uncover novel attack vectors.
Investigate real-world attacks across cloud environments, identity providers (IDPs), and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platforms.
Hunt and analyze emerging threats and active campaigns targeting the cloud ecosystem.

we are seeking a Senior Security Researcher to join our highly technical product research team working at the core of our security products.
This is a rare opportunity to join an elite security research team and do work that directly shapes our AI and Cloud products. Your research will span cloud infrastructure, AI systems, emerging platforms, and modern architectures.
You will perform novel security research, inform product direction, and contribute to our company's thought leadership in cloud and AI security.
We are looking for an exceptional security researcher who thrives on variety and can quickly develop expertise in new areas.
Your Role:
Drive research direction across multiple domains including cloud security, AI security, and emerging threat landscapes.
Perform novel security research to uncover new attack vectors, and adversary techniques across cloud and AI systems.
Translate research findings into actionable product capabilities, detection logic, and risk prioritization guidance.
Stay current with evolving threats across cloud platforms and AIecosystems, identifying where our company should invest next.
Write and speak about security research to strengthen our company's voice in cloud and AI security.
Collaborate with product and engineering teams to translate research into shipped capabilities.

We are seeking an AI Security Researcher to join Dashs core research team. Youll investigate how AI agents - spanning coding agents, SaaS AI platforms, cloud, and endpoints - can be abused, and design detections that stop threats before they cause impact. Each platform is different, yet they share common risk patterns across prompts, tools, MCP servers, skills, hooks, identity, and data movement. Your mission is to master both: uncovering unique attack surfaces while building universal, session- and intent-aware defenses. This role combines deep platform research, responsible security testing, and close collaboration with engineering to translate findings into production runtime protection. You will help define the field of Agentic Security.
Responsibilities:
Research agentic threats: Prompt injection, tool/plugin/MCP abuse, skill and hook misuse, rogue autonomy, identity misuse, data leakage, adversarial AI, and protocol exploitation across coding agents and enterprise AI platforms.
Develop runtime detections: Design detections for multiple environments (coding agents, SaaS AI, cloud, endpoints), leveraging platform hooks, APIs, telemetry, and native guardrails where available.
Analyze platform complexities: Deep-dive into architectures, permissions, workflows, and agent capabilities (MCP servers, Skills, plugins, extensions) while extracting cross-platform risk patterns.
Build scalable detection logic: Prototype and refine heuristics, signatures, and intent-aware detectors that hold up at enterprise scale with low friction for builders.
Investigate monitoring and enforcement boundaries: Push what platforms allow for visibility and control - hooks, plugins, configuration surfaces, inventory signals, and policy enforcement points.
Prototype PoCs: Validate attack paths end to end, then turn findings into production-ready signatures, heuristics, detectors, and runtime policies.
Collaborate with engineering: Embed research into Dashs detection pipelines, session-aware runtime protection, and policy/governance modules.
Stay ahead of the field: Track adversarial AI and agent security research, continuously evolving Dashs detection and enforcement coverage.

We are a fast growing cybersecurity startup redefining how organizations defend themselves. As attackers leverage AI for high speed strikes, we provide defenders with the same capabilities. Our platform creates an AI driven Autonomous Attacker that thinks like a hacker, generating end to end attack chains across Web, Cloud, and AI applications to prioritize mitigation where it matters. Founded a year and a half ago, weve moved at lightning speed raising a Seed from CyberStarts and a Series A from Lightspeed. With offices in Tel Aviv and New York, we maintain a high transparency, low ego environment where exceptional individuals have the autonomy to make a massive impact on a category defining product.
We are looking for a talented Security Researcher to join our team. As the brain behind our AI, you will stay ahead of the hacker community, analyze sophisticated threats, and teach our platform how to think and act like an attacker to revolutionize the penetration testing landscape
What Youll Do
Conduct deep research to uncover vulnerabilities, analyze exploits, and develop novel attack techniques.
Investigate emerging threats and build complex, automated "kill chains" across Web, Cloud, and AI applications.
Perform detailed technical analysis, including reverse engineering, protocol analysis, and exploit development.
Work side-by-side with the engineering team to turn research findings into scalable, automated AI code.
Publish research findings and contribute to the global cybersecurity community.

Required Principal / Sr. Principal Security Research - Advanced Cyber Research (Cortex)
We are seeking a visionary and highly technical Principal / Sr. Principal Security Researcher to join our security research team. In this role, you will be at the forefront of innovating automated defense systems to rapidly protect platform customers against advanced cyber threats at an unprecedented scale. This position offers a unique opportunity to blend deep traditional cybersecurity expertise - including OS internals, reverse engineering, and advanced detection engineering with cutting-edge AI technologies like LLMs, SLMs, and agentic workflows.
You will spearhead the creation of innovative prevention solutions, leveraging massive streams of agent telemetry to design AI-driven logic that neutralizes threats before they execute. As a key technical leader, you will partner closely with top-tier data scientists and product engineers to translate cutting-edge security research into production-grade capabilities, ensuring we stay ahead of the evolving threat landscape.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop Automated Defense Systems:Create, engineer, and deploy automated solutions for the prevention and detection of advanced cyber threats, analyzing complex data to rapidly protect platform customers at scale.
Innovate with AI:Partner closely with data scientists to leverage LLMs, SLMs & deeplearning techniques to fuel these advanced prevention solutions and automated defense capabilities.
Research, develop, and continuously improve the Agentix solution. Drive the development of next-generation security content by designing and implementing specialized AI agents to automate security operations and workflows.
Drive Security Innovations:Spearhead new research initiatives from the ground up. Act as the primary driver across key stakeholders, leading top-tier data scientists and engineers to ensure the successful delivery of enterprise-grade security capabilities.