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.
Responsibilities
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.

We're looking for a Threat Security Researcher to join our Threats team at the intersection of security research, AI, and product. You'll own detection research across runtime, cloud, network, identity, code, while actively shaping how AI capabilities are applied to solve real security problems at scale.
Conduct deep technical research into modern cloud environments and AI systems and discover novel attack techniques.
Lead product initiatives in the threats domain from inception to production. Collaborate closely with product, backend, and GTM, translating research into product capabilities.
Define and create complex detection logic over our vast telemetry, with a focus on coverage that scales across customer environments.
Identify gaps in detection coverage and evaluate detection quality. ensuring security logic is reliable and impactful.
Stay up to date with the evolving threat landscape (threat intelligence, campaigns) and incorporate into our product
Contribute to PR presence - technical research content, talks, open-source tooling.

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.

We're looking for a talented Applied Security Researcher to join our team and play a major role in our company's frontier research team, enabling contextual code understanding across complex cloud deployments.
Responsibilities
Drive continuous research from initial concept through PoC to product integration.
Build threat models for AI-native and cloud-native systems: how attackers approach them, how enterprises defend them, and where the gaps are.
Build AI agents that analyze code and/or cloud infrastructure to produce specific insights.
Analyze and understand real-world systems from a security perspective - architecture, data flows, and source code.
Partner across Product, Engineering, and Research to ship what you discover.

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.

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.

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.

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 looking for a highly skilled Senior Vulnerability Researcher to join our team. In this role, you will lead offensive research on our clients' assets, uncovering complex vulnerabilities and directly connecting your findings to our product to demonstrate actionable value. Beyond client-focused engagements, you will spearhead vulnerability research into cutting-edge technologies within the AI and Cloud domains. As a senior technical voice for the company, you will share your findings by writing technical blogs and representing us at industry security conferences.
Key Responsibilities:
Conduct deep-dive offensive research on client assets to identify and exploit vulnerabilities.
Bridge the gap between offensive findings and product value, demonstrating to clients how our solutions mitigate their specific risks.
Perform pioneering vulnerability research on emerging technologies, specifically focusing on Cloud infrastructure and Artificial Intelligence (AI) ecosystems.
Author high-quality technical blogs, whitepapers, and vulnerability reports.
Represent the company by speaking and participating in leading global security conferences.

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.