Senior Threat Researcher Agentic Endpoint Security(Cortex)

Our Mission

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Who We Are

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Job Summary

What you will do

• Research threat actors campaigns and techniques relevant to browser extensions SaaS apps autonomous agents MCP/tooling ecosystems and related endpoint behaviors.

• Build and maintain threat intelligence: TTPs IOCs where appropriate ATT&CK-style mappings and internal knowledge bases.

• Design test and tune detection logic (behavioral rules heuristics models or equivalent) in collaboration with detection and data science teams.

• Analyze customer and telemetry datasets to find novel abuse patterns false positives and detection gaps.

• Produce clear outputs for multiple audiences: technical blogs customer-facing briefings internal playbooks and engineering specs.

• Work with reverse engineering data engineering and product to turn research into durable platform capabilities.

• Participate in incident-driven research and time-sensitive investigations when new threats emerge.

Qualifications

Required qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in cyber threat research threat intelligence or detection engineering (commercial government or high-quality independent research).

• Strong understanding of offensive techniques and how they appear in endpoint identity or SaaS/browser telemetrynot only classic PE malware.

• Proficiency in scripting for analysis (e.g. Python) SQL SIEM or equivalent investigative query languages and low-level inspection of behaviors relevant to threat research and detection.

• Excellent written communication; ability to explain tradeoffs between precision coverage and operational load.

• Collaborative mindset; experience working with engineering teams on shipped features or detections.

Our Commitment

Were trailblazers that dream big take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.

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