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By joining our management team as the R&D director, you will take full responsibility of the email and collaboration product family R&D, manage a growing global team of over 50 professionals, and be at the top of technology for cloud SaaS high scale/high velocity AI/ML based security solutions, serving tens of thousands of global enterprise customers.

If you want to make a real global impact, making the world a safer place join us !

Key Responsibilities
Product Development:
Oversee the design, development, maintenance and deployment of cutting-edge cloud based email security products and features, serving tens of thousands of global enterprise customers.
Ensure products meet market needs and regulatory requirements while maintaining the highest security and coding standards.
Ensure products are developed in the most cost effective manner, deployed over multiple regions utilizing cutting edge cloud infrastructure and technologies.
Ensure products are robust, built to scale and support dynamic architecture changes for fast growing changing environments.
Ensure product is fully monitored at the highest level 24/7 by actively implementing a reliable monitoring system across multiple domains and regions.
Team Management:
Lead, mentor, and develop a growing high-performing R&D team of over 50 high skill professionals, across the globe. including group and team leaders, software engineers, data scientists, and cybersecurity experts.
Foster collaboration and cross-functional integration between R&D, product management, customer success, and other departments.
Manage our R&D team building. Recruit and support extending our R&D ever growing team to catch up with product growth.
Monitor and report on R&D performance metrics and project progress to the executive team.
Research & Innovation:
Drive research initiatives to explore new technologies, threats, and opportunities in cloud, AI/ML and email security.
Maintain a strong understanding of industry trends, emerging threats, and competitive landscape.
Drive innovation through threat modeling, prototyping, and validating emerging technologies.
Quality Assurance:
Ensure rigorous testing and validation processes to guarantee the reliability, performance, and security of products.
Implement best practices for software development and quality assurance utilizing advanced automation technologies.
Implement full system monitroing to assure production top availability and performance.
Strategic Leadership:
Develop and implement the R&D strategy in alignment with the company's product vision and business objectives.
Adopt AI/ML to enhance threat detection, anomaly detection, and behavior analysis for better email security.
Foster a culture of innovation, continuous improvement, and excellence within the R&D team.
Manage and mentor cross-functional teams of researchers, engineers, and data scientists.
Foster a culture of continuous learning, experimentation, and technical excellence.
Budget Management:
Manage the R&D budget, ensuring effective allocation of resources to projects and initiatives.
Manage email security cloud cost and drive cloud cost optimization initiatives and activities.

Shape the Future of Cybersecurity with Us Are you driven by deep curiosity, bold innovation, and the desire to transform cutting-edge AI research into real-world cybersecurity impact? Join Cynet, an established yet rapidly growing cybersecurity startup, where you’ll help build next-generation AI-powered security products from the ground up. You’ll be part of a small, elite, cross-disciplinary team working closely with security researchers, R&D engineers, data engineers, and product leaders.
Here, you’re not just joining a company, you’re stepping into a place where you can envision, build, and deploy foundational AI technologies that protect organizations worldwide. You will have the rare opportunity to drive innovation end-to-end, shape our future technology, and create AI systems that make a real difference in defending against modern cyber threats.
This is a role for someone who wants to put their soul into their craft, someone hungry to learn fast, experiment boldly, and turn ambitious ideas into production-ready AI solutions.

What will you do:

* Drive innovation by combining deep security research with modern AI techniques to build impactful, customer-facing security capabilities.
* Build and refine intelligent generative AI agents that drive automated cybersecurity reasoning, investigation workflows, and threat analysis.
* Extend and enhance our next-generation AI antivirus engine by designing new feature representations, building file parsers, and developing ML models end-to-end.
* Engineer and implement core parser and model components in C++ and Python to seamlessly integrate into the Cynet Endpoint Agent and platform infrastructure.
* Use Cynet’s ML experimentation pipelines to run experiments, optimize performance, and deliver production-ready detection models.
* Serve as the cybersecurity expert within the Data Science team, guiding threat modeling, malware understanding, and security-driven AI design decisions.

About Us:
Cynet is a leader in threat detection and response, designed to simplify security for organizations of all sizes. Our mission is to empower lean security teams and their partners with an AI-powered, unified platform that autonomously detects, protects, and responds to threats - backed by 24×7 security experts. With a Partner First mindset , we focus on helping customers and partners stay protected, operate confidently, and achieve their goals. Our vision is to give every organization true cybersecurity peace of mind, providing fast, accurate protection without the noise or complexity.
This role follows a hybrid work model in countries where Cynet has offices (Israel, USA), while being fully remote in England, Poland, Italy, and Germany.

We are seeking an experienced, visionary Cyber Research Team Lead to guide and grow a multidisciplinary cyber research team. You will lead a group of domain experts - from network engineers and identity specialists, to red-teamers, protocol researchers, penetration testers, data analysts and cloud/virtualization experts - working collaboratively to build our next-gen AI-based posture management platform. As team lead, you will both manage the team and shape the research agenda: coordinating cross-domain investigations, defining priorities, mentoring researchers, and ensuring that research output feeds directly into scalable, intelligent workflows and product capabilities.
If youre passionate about cyber research, enjoy nurturing technical talent, and thrive on building complex, multi-domain security products - this is your chance to build and lead a research team that defines how AI defends modern enterprise infrastructure.
:Responsibilities
Lead, mentor, and coordinate a diverse, multi-domain cyber research team.
Define and drive the teams research agenda, establishing multi-domain security research priorities aligned with company goals and product roadmap.
Translate research findings into actionable AI-based deliverables - such as automated workflows and agentic flows integrated into the AI-based posture management product.
Coordinate and work in multidisciplinary squads to build customer facing product, ensuring real-world relevance and impact.
Maintain research excellence and innovation culture - encourage internal knowledge-sharing, code/tool reuse, and continuous learning.
Recruit, grow, and manage talent -identify skill gaps, hire new researchers, mentor researchers, and foster a collaborative, high-performance team environment.
Stay current with emerging cyber threats, infrastructure trends (cloud, virtualization, identity systems), adversarial techniques and AI-driven security trends - and evolve research strategies accordingly.

We are seeking a Security Operations Engineer to join our Security team, reporting to the CIO. This is a hands-on role where you will design and operate security infrastructure, lead cloud security initiatives, and rethink our security architecture. You'll build AI-powered solutions to automate security triage and response, while partnering cross-functionally with DevOps, IT, and Engineering teams to drive security outcomes across the organization.
What you will do :
Design, implement, and operate security monitoring capabilities using a SIEM platform to detect, analyze, and respond to threats in real time. Deploy and manage EDR, DLP, CSPM, and other security controls across the environment.
Build and maintain cloud security architectures, ensuring strong IAM, network segmentation, encryption, and a zero-trust approach across all cloud deployments.
Continuously evaluate and evolve the security architecture and defense in depth strategy. Integrate tools and systems across the stack to enable unified telemetry, seamless data flow, and automated response actions.
Develop AI powered agentic solutions and operational automations using n8n. Use Infrastructure as Code to automate deployment, configuration management, and ongoing lifecycle operations for security infrastructure.
Create and tune detection rules, build log ingestion pipelines, and conduct proactive threat hunting. Lead monitoring, investigation, and remediation efforts using structured DFIR methodologies.
Embed security into CI/CD pipelines and broader DevSecOps workflows. Partner with DevOps, IT, and Engineering teams to integrate security into day to day operations and technical decision making.
Implement and maintain controls aligned with HIPAA, HITRUST, and SOC 2 requirements. Perform security assessments for vendors, SaaS platforms, and internal applications.

we are looking for a Senior Threat Intelligence Researcher.
As a Senior Threat Intelligence Researcher, you will be responsible for tracking advanced adversaries and leveraging your deep technical expertise across attacker capabilities, infrastructure, and tactics. You will create and refine approaches to uncover and monitor active threat actors, as well as surface irregular and emerging behaviors in the broader threat landscape. The intelligence you generate will directly strengthen understanding of threat actors and will inform proactive hunting, detection engineering, and defensive decision-making.
:Responsibilities
Lead complex threat intelligence investigations through in-depth analysis of the global threat landscape, with a focus on advanced and state-linked actors.
Define and prioritize threat research focus areas (actors, campaigns, sectors, techniques) aligned with customers and product roadmap.
Deliver actionable cyber threat intelligence and design and execute hunting campaigns using analytics, automation, and advanced AI capabilities.
Curate and maintain structured knowledge on actors, campaigns, infrastructure, and TTPs in internal threat knowledge base.
Work closely with CyberAI researchers on the development of next-generation artificial cyber researchers and AI-driven analysis capabilities.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Head of Application Security to join our dynamic team. This role is pivotal in driving the security of our software development lifecycle and ensuring the robustness of our applications against potential threats. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in secure software development practices, including SSDLC implementation, and a deep understanding of security risks & tools. This position reports directly to an R&D VP.

Key Responsibilities
Lead the application security team, providing strategic direction and mentorship.
Develop and implement a comprehensive Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC) framework.
Oversee the integration of security practices into all phases of the software development lifecycle, including CI/CD guardrails.
Conduct risk assessments and threat modeling to identify and mitigate potential security vulnerabilities.
Collaborate with development teams to ensure secure coding practices and adherence to security standards, while maintaining developer productivity.
Implement and manage security automation tools and processes to enhance the efficiency of security operations.
Stay up-to-date on the latest security trends, vulnerabilities, and technologies to continuously improve our security posture.
Provide expert guidance on security architecture and design for new and existing applications.
Lead incident response efforts related to application security breaches and vulnerabilities.
Foster a culture of security awareness and continuous improvement within the organization.

We are on the lookout for a driven and experienced hands-on Team Leader to lead a group of cyber security experts responsible for our detection platform.
In this role, you will lead a team of security engineers and own the security coverage and accuracy of our detection platform to guide development and strengthen our customers' resilience to emerging unknown threats. Your expertise in cyber security will drive our true AI-driven detection platform.
:Responsibilities
Mentor engineers, grow the team, and foster a culture of technical excellence and innovation.
Work closely with developers and data scientists to produce AI detection models.
Apply your cyber expertise to investigate emerging threats and define technical requirements to mitigate them.
Continuously assess and evaluate security coverage and accuracy.
Architect and build scalable solutions for evaluating the platform security metrics.
Bring your excellent interpersonal skills to foster collaboration and maintain a positive attitude within the team.

We are looking for a Senior Staff Product Manager to join AI SIEM Data Platform product team to lead the vision, strategy, and execution for unified log collection from our unified agent. This role focuses on driving product direction and cross-functional delivery of agent-based collection for both Windows, MacOS, and Linux flat file logs and Windows Event Logs. The Product Manager ensures that customers benefit from a seamless, single-agent solution that streamlines log onboarding, normalization, and centralized security analytics for threat hunting, detection, response, and reporting.


What will you do?
Product Strategy and Ownership

Define product vision, priorities, and multi-phase roadmap for unified agent log collection capabilities
Lead requirement gathering and translate business needs into clear, actionable product requirements
Own the lifecycle of agent log collection features from ideation through development, launch, and ongoing iteration
Collaborate with engineering, UX, and architect teams to design configurable, user-friendly log collection workflows.
Collaborate with cross-functional product areas to specify requirements for agent-side features
Establish technical and UX specifications for integration with the Singularity Operations Center
Champion the consolidation of flat file log, event log, and telemetry collection into a unified, enterprise-grade agent deployment
Minimize operational overhead and complexity for customer environments
Ensure secure, performant, and reliable ingestion of collected logs into the AI SIEM/Singularity Data Lake
Drive initiatives on data normalization, parsing, and searchability to maximize downstream analytics and compliance value
Develop enablement material, size and performance guidance, and support playbooks for internal and external stakeholders
Serve as an escalation point for validation, troubleshooting, and feedback cycles with field, support, and customer teams

As the Technical Director for Reactive Services, you will serve as a senior-level consultant and client advocate, providing expert guidance on all facets of cybersecurity and data breach response. You will deliver strategic and technical leadership to a diverse range of clients, helping them navigate complex security incidents. Your expertise will be critical in shaping response strategies and ensuring clients effectively mitigate and recover from cyber threats.
Key Responsibilities
Provide expert-level strategic and technical guidance to clients during active data breach response and cybersecurity incidents.
Lead complex client engagements from initial scoping and resource allocation through to technical execution and final reporting.
Apply deep knowledge of forensic processes, including chain of custody, and advanced computer and memory acquisition techniques.
Utilize industry-standard forensics tools (e.g., EnCase, FTK, SleuthKit, Volatility) for in-depth analysis across major operating systems.
Challenge curiously by maintaining hyper-current knowledge of the threat landscape, emerging vulnerabilities, and attacker TTPs to inform response strategies.
Conduct detailed analysis of malware, identify persistence mechanisms, and triage threats to determine root cause and impact.
Proactively collaborate with internal teams and client stakeholders, ensuring alignment and communicating clear, actionable findings.
Develop and automate scripts and processes to simplify and enhance the efficiency of incident response scenarios.

We are looking for an experienced Security Engineer to join our security operations team with a strong focus on detection and response.

This is a unique opportunity to leverage your threat detection and response experience and build some of the foundational systems and services to keep our infrastructure free from malicious actors and threats. You will partner closely with all engineering teams, IT administrators, and compliance analysts to ensure that we maintain sufficient visibility into our environments and develop effective programs and practices to ensure that our environments are always secure. Tooling and automation will be key to success as we scale our environments to meet customer demand.



What You Will Do:

Collaborate with different teams for building and setting up pipelines needed to gather relevant security telemetry.

Build and maintain an effective and scalable security monitoring infrastructure solution.

Develop detection strategies to identify anomalous activity and ensure that our critical infrastructure and services operate in a safe environment.

Triage alerts and drive security incidents to closure while reducing their potential impact .

Build processes and workflows to triage security alerts and respond to real incidents.

Research new threat attack vectors and ensure that our detection and response capability is in line with the current threat landscape.

Proactively improve the quality of our detection rules and strive to eliminate classes of issues by working directly with engineering teams.

Contribute to strategy, risk management, and prioritization for all efforts around detection and response.

Collaborate with the compliance team to maintain and audit security controls and processes, ensure compliance with relevant security frameworks and certifications.

Pragmatic implementing business-focused controls to safeguard the companys multi-cloud entities.