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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.

Were growing and looking to hire a Vulnerability Research Team Lead who embodies our core values: People First, Customer Obsession, Strive for Excellence, and Integrity.
About the Company:
A global leader in cyber-physical systems (CPS) protection, dedicated to securing the critical infrastructure that keeps the world running. Were a fast-growing, award-winning team where innovation meets purpose-and we want you to help us define the future of cybersecurity.
Our technology strategy is focused on solving real-world cyber-physical security problems at scale through robust, distributed, cloud-native architectures. We design and evolve a unified platform that serves as the technological backbone for all our products, delivering deep visibility across CPS environments-without disrupting critical operations. Our architecture emphasizes scalability, resilience, and extensibility to support both cloud and on-prem deployments.
About the Role:
As a Vulnerability Research Team Lead, you will lead a world-class group of vulnerability researchers in analyzing complex cyber-physical systems. You will balance hands-on technical excellence with people management, guiding your team through deep-dive disassembly, code audits, and exploit development. You will be responsible for the team's research roadmap, ensuring we stay ahead of emerging threats while fostering a culture of innovation and professional growth.
Responsibilities
As a Vulnerability Research Team Lead, your impact will be:
Leadership & Mentorship: Lead, hire, and develop a team of high-performing Vulnerability Researchers, fostering a collaborative and high-standard environment.
Research Strategy: Define and execute the team's research roadmap, prioritizing targets that provide the highest value to our customers and products.
Technical Oversight: Provide expert guidance on static/dynamic analysis, reverse engineering, and exploit development projects.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with R&D, Product Management, and Threat Intelligence teams to translate research findings into actionable security features.
Thought Leadership: Represent our research in the industry through blogs, whitepapers, or conference presentations (BlackHat, DEF CON, etc.).

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.

As Security Research Team Lead at our company, you will lead the team turning security research and enterprise security data into actionable insights and product capabilities. You will combine people management with hands-on technical leadership, helping customers understand their exposure and get more value from their security tools.
Were looking for a leader with a strong background in cybersecurity research, deep understanding of enterprise security tools, and a data-driven approach to solving problems. You should be equally comfortable mentoring researchers, shaping a research roadmap, and joining customer calls to explain findings and understand real-world challenges.
What You'll Do
Lead and Develop the Team: Manage, mentor, and grow a team of security researchers. Set clear goals, provide technical guidance and feedback, and build a culture of rigor, curiosity, and ownership.
Own the Research Roadmap: Define and prioritize research initiatives in partnership with product and engineering. Balance customer needs, emerging threats, and strategic opportunities, taking projects from initial investigation through production delivery.
Drive Security Tool Research: Lead deep research into enterprise security platforms, including EDR, SIEM, firewalls, IAM, and vulnerability management tools. Assess configurations, policies, coverage, and defensive capabilities to identify gaps and improve security effectiveness.
Engage Directly with Customers: Lead technical customer discussions, explain findings clearly, investigate complex questions, and turn feedback into research and product improvements.
Turn Data into Security Insights: Guide how the team collects, models, correlates, and validates security data. Translate fragmented telemetry and configuration data into reliable assessments, prioritized findings, and actionable recommendations.
Shape Integrations and Product Capabilities: Own the research requirements and security logic behind integrations, security control assessments, and exposure prioritization. Work closely with engineering to ensure research translates into accurate, scalable product features.
Set Research Quality Standards: Establish methods for validating findings, testing assumptions, and measuring accuracy. Ensure conclusions are supported by evidence and recommendations account for customer context and operational constraints.
Guide AI-Powered Research and Workflows: Shape the security knowledge, reasoning logic, and evaluation methods behind our companys AI-powered capabilities, ensuring outputs are accurate, explainable, and useful.
Partner Across our company: Collaborate with product, engineering, data, and customer-facing teams to align priorities, resolve technical challenges, and deliver meaningful customer outcomes.

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 looking for a Manager, Cyber Research.
The Security Research Team powers Exposures by designing the analytical, exposure management, and data pipelines that drive product capabilities, including risk scoring, data modeling, and LLM-driven reasoning. Operating in close partnership with Product and Engineering, team members own projects end-to-end from problem definition to validated production prototypes. We are seeking a Group Manager to lead, mentor, and grow this team while driving portfolio prioritization, technical rigor, and cross-functional execution across complex cybersecurity and data-heavy initiatives.
Responsibilities:
Manage, coach, and grow a team of 4 to 8 security researchers, taking direct accountability for hiring, performance management, and research output quality.
Drive cross-functional delivery with Product and Engineering leaders, translating business requirements into clear research scope, project timelines, and scalable production prototypes.
Review and critically evaluate complex technical approaches, including data pipeline architecture, exposure/risk scoring logic, mitigation strategies, and LLM pipeline designs (prompting, retrieval, evaluation).
Lead project portfolio prioritization and represent the team's research roadmap and value metrics directly to executive leadership with minimal top-level intervention.

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 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.

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.