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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 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 Security Researcher.
As a Senior Security Researcher, you will bridge our core research initiatives at the intersection of proactive exposure management, agentic workflows, and scalable threat modeling. We are looking for an innovator who translates complex security data into product-driven features, taking full ownership from concept to production.
What You'll Do:
Drive Product-Led Research: Translate complex, real-world security challenges into actionable, product-driven research. Take full ownership of research projects end-to-end, from identifying the security gap to collaborating with engineering to ship platform features.
Drive Proactive Exposure Management: Leverage Automated Security Control Assessments (ASCA) alongside vulnerability evaluation and prioritization to holistically assess organizational risk. Deep dive into enterprise security tools (EDR, SIEM, Firewalls, IAM, etc.) to analyze configurations, map defensive capabilities, and continuously evaluate their effectiveness against real-world threats.
Build Security Tool Integrations: Drive the technical research and define the data models required to actually build deep, functional integrations into diverse security platforms, ensuring the accurate extraction of telemetry, policies, and configuration data.
Build AI & Agentic Workflows: Define, design, and implement the logic and knowledge base that feeds Nagomi's AI-powered agents, ensuring they deliver accurate, context-aware security guidance and automated risk assessments.
Map Attack Paths: Define realistic attack flows, identify toxic combinations of misconfigurations, and surface the security gaps that help customers prioritize the risks that actually matter.
Engage with Customers: Work directly with customers to help them understand their exposure, translate your research findings into meaningful posture improvements, and gather feedback to drive product innovation.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with product, engineering, and data teams to embed security insights into everything we build.

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 looking for an exceptional Senior Product Manager to join our AI Security group and play a key role in shaping the future of AI Security As a Product Manager, you will drive product strategy, define innovative security capabilities, and work closely with engineering, security researchers, and customers to build solutions that help organizations securely embrace the AI era.

Responsibilities:
Identify emerging challenges, opportunities, and customer requirements related to AI Security, AI applications, AI agents, and data protection.
Define and drive product strategy for AI Security initiatives across platform.
Break down strategic product goals into actionable plans and lead execution across engineering, research, design, and go-to-market teams.
Define product requirements and oversee the implementation of new AI Security capabilities and services.
Conduct market research, competitive analysis, and customer discovery to understand evolving AI Security threats, trends, and customer needs.
Work closely with customers, partners, and internal stakeholders to validate problems, prioritize opportunities, and shape product direction.
Analyze product performance, user behavior, and customer feedback to continuously improve product effectiveness and business impact.
Collaborate closely with world-class engineering and security teams to bring innovative AI Security solutions to market.
Drive cross-functional initiatives involving Product, R&D, Security Research, Sales, Marketing, and executive leadership.

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 looking for a Senior Security Researcher.
As a Senior Security Researcher for the Exposures team, you will conduct research into vulnerability detection, remediation, and prioritization to enhance our 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 data, automate workflows, and prototype logic to address enterprise attack surfaces. This is a high-impact role where your research directly shapes how our customers identify and mitigate their most critical security gaps.
Responsibilities:
Lead end-to-end security research projects focusing on vulnerability detection, risk prioritization, and exposure management logic.
Utilize Python, SQL, and AI/LLM tools to build data analysis pipelines, automate threat research, and prototype research tools.
Research and define remediation strategies, compensating controls, and configuration-based mitigations beyond standard patching.
Partner weekly with Product and Engineering teams to transform technical research into production-ready product capabilities.

Were looking for an experienced Vulnerability Researcher to help us uncover how modern AI tools, agents, and enterprise environments can be abused - and turn those findings into impactful security research.
This role combines deep technical research with real industry impact.
Youll investigate emerging attack techniques, build proof-of-concepts, publish research the security community cares about, and help shape how our company protects customers.
Were looking for someone who loves understanding how things work, thinks creatively like an attacker, and knows how to turn technical findings into research people actually want to read and talk about.
What Youll Do
Research vulnerabilities and attack techniques across AI tools, endpoints, browsers, MCP servers, extensions, and enterprise environments
Investigate real-world threats, CVEs, supply-chain attacks, and AI-related security risks
Build proof-of-concepts and demonstrations of new attack paths
Publish technical research, blog posts, and security content
Work closely with Product and Engineering to improve our companys detection and prevention capabilities
Help position our company as a leading company in AI security research
Explore new technologies and identify risks before they become mainstream.

We are seeking a Senior / Principal Security Researcher to join our high-caliber Security ML Team. Our team solves complex security challenges using disruptive technologies, AI/ML algorithms, and massive datasets to design and develop groundbreaking security solutions that transition directly from research into production-grade protection.
In this role, you will serve as the core security domain expert within a multidisciplinary team, providing essential security-side expertise to assist in the development of ML models, deeplearning models, and Small Language Models (SLMs). By translating complex malware behaviors and static file attributes into actionable logic, your research will directly shape the algorithms that protect millions of endpoints worldwide. If you are looking to autonomously drive high-impact research initiatives from inception to production and use data-informed critical thinking to influence advanced security modeling, we want to hear from you.
Key Responsibilities:
The Bridge to the AI Ecosystem: Serve as the core security domain expert within a multidisciplinary team, translating complex malware behaviors and static file attributes into actionable features, labels, or heuristics-fueling AI algorithms and automated, data-driven security logic.
Telemetry & Sensor Optimization:Analyze raw endpoint telemetry (such as memory buffers, hook outputs, and IPC artifacts) to evaluate algorithm effectiveness and work with AI researchers to tweak or implement new models..
Deconstruct File Behavior: Look past the "black box" of machine learning by digging into executable formats (PE, ELF, Mach-O) and scripts to identify malicious behavior(e.g., packing, anomalous imports, obfuscation).
Drive Intelligent Protections:Take a security hypothesis, validate it via data analysis, and build Python-based proof-of-concepts that scale into production-grade detections-spanning machine learning classifiers to AI-informed automated rule generation.
Shape the Pipeline: Influence data pipeline strategies and model design by ensuring our datasets and automated logic accurately capture the ground truth of modern threat landscapes.

We're looking for a talented AI Security Researcher to join our team and play a critical role in our 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.