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.
Enhance Palo Alto Networks Agentix: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.

As a Security Researcher , you will play a key role in shaping the future of modern runtime and AI security. You will investigate how real-world attacks unfold across applications and cloud environments, and turn those insights into innovative, production-grade security capabilities.

This role is ideal for a deeply technical researcher who is driven to understand attacks at their core - not just identify surface-level indicators. You will research exploitation chains, runtime behavior, attacker techniques, and emerging AI attack patterns, then apply that knowledge to build protections that are precise, resilient, scalable, and grounded in how attacks actually work.

Specifically, you will:

Research real-world attack techniques targeting modern applications, cloud-native environments, and AI-driven systems.
Design, develop, validate, and deploy detection algorithms based on technical research, large-scale runtime telemetry, threat intelligence, and exploit PoCs.
Shape the strategy for detection data collection by defining the required telemetry, collection points, and data quality standards needed to support effective protection.
Drive research efforts end-to-end, from initial exploration and technical investigation to production-grade protection capabilities for active threats.
Work closely with engineering and product teams to turn research into practical security capabilities.

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.

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're looking for a Security Researcher to join our team at the intersection of security research, AI, and product. This isn't a traditional research role - you'll be deeply embedded in how the platform is built, working side by side with R&D, Product, and AI teams to make sure security expertise is baked into every layer of what we ship. You'll own detection and analytics research across cloud, identity, endpoint, and beyond, while actively shaping how AI capabilities are applied to solve real security problems at scale.

WHAT YOU WILL DO
Research and develop sophisticated detections and behavioral analytics across multiple security landscapes - cloud, identity, endpoint, network, and application - with a focus on coverage that scales across customer environments.
Work closely with R&D, Product, and AI teams as the security authority - reviewing features, shaping designs, and ensuring security logic is sound, practical, and impactful.
Apply an AI-native approach to detection and analytics challenges - leveraging LLMs, ML signals, and AI-assisted workflows to do things that rule-based approaches can't.
Identify gaps in detection coverage and analytical capabilities, and drive those findings directly into the product roadmap.
Analyze real-world attacker techniques and translate them into detection logic, hunting content, and analytical frameworks that ship as part of the platform.
Evaluate detection quality rigorously - measuring fidelity, coverage, and performance against real attacker behavior and production telemetry.
Stay sharp on the evolving threat landscape and rapidly incorporate new techniques, campaigns, and attacker tooling into our detection library.
Contribute to external research output - blog posts, talks, open-source tooling - that reflects our depth and point of view in the security community.

We're looking for a Threat Detection Researcher to join the Threat Research team and spread the power of our company. 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
our company 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 company's 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.

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.

Required Senior/Principal Linux Security Analytics Researcher (Cortex)
Job Summary
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.

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 seeking a Principal Security Researcher to set the technical direction for a critical area of our identity protection charter, drive multi-quarter research agendas end-to-end, and raise the bar of the team through mentorship and influence. You will partner with engineering, PM, data science, and other research teams across us to shape strategy, and you will represent our research externally through publications, talks, and industry engagement. We expect our Principal researchers to fluently leverage Generative AI and to actively shape how the team applies it - turning AI assistance into a durable force multiplier across investigation, detection authoring, and customer protection at our scale.

Responsibilities

Set the technical direction for a major area of our identity protection research charter, owning the multi-quarter strategy from threat landscape framing to shipped detection and measurable customer protection impact.

Drive multiple concurrent end-to-end research initiatives, breaking ambiguous problems into tractable workstreams and unblocking the team on the hardest technical questions.

Lead deep investigation and research of data across identity and adjacent sources to surface novel threats, attacker tradecraft, and detection opportunities others miss.

Stay ahead of the evolving attacker landscape and design robust, sophisticated detection logics across the entire kill-chain - raising the bar on quality, coverage, and resilience to attacker evasion.

Influence across organizational boundaries - partner with product management, engineering, data science, and peer research teams to shape product strategy, define new identity protection capabilities, and align roadmaps on a data-driven foundation.

Mentor and grow other researchers (IC3-IC4), elevating the technical bar of the team through code/design review, research coaching, and apprenticeship on complex investigations.

Shape how the team and discipline leverage Generative AI - define patterns, evaluate tools, and build durable AI-assisted workflows that scale research throughput across data triage, hypothesis generation, code and KQL authoring, and detection synthesis.

Represent our Security externally through high-quality research publications, conference talks, blog posts, and engagement with the broader security research community.