Principal Threat Researcher
Principal Threat Researcher
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05-06-2025
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Cyderes (Cyber Defense and Response) is a pure-play full life-cycle cybersecurity services provider with award-winning managed security services identity and access management and professional services designed to manage the cybersecurity risks of enterprise clients. We specialize in multi-technology complex environments with the in speed and agility needed to tackle the most advanced cyber threats. We leverage our global scale and decades of experience to accelerate our clients cyber outcomes through a full lifecycle of cybersecurity services. We are a global company with operating centers in the United States Canada the United Kingdom and India.
About the Job:
We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic Principal Threat Researcher to lead advanced threat research initiatives and drive innovation in our threat intelligence program. In this senior-level role you will uncover analyze and track advanced cyber threats develop detection capabilities and provide actionable intelligence to protect our customers infrastructure and global operations. As a thought leader in cybersecurity you will collaborate across security engineering and executive teams to anticipate evolving threats influence detection strategy and contribute to the broader security community through cutting-edge research.
Responsibilities:
- Function as a centralized malware reversing team for the companys needs. (support DFIR Hunters MDR etc.)
- Track threat actors and campaigns via malware research code reuse infrastructure usage general threat profiling.
- Lead the discovery and analysis of advanced persistent threats (APTs) malware campaigns and novel attack techniques.
- Develop and maintain high-fidelity threat intelligence feeds and indicators of compromise (IOCs).
- Perform in-depth malware reverse engineering exploit analysis and behavioral analysis.
- Drive strategic threat modeling and horizon scanning to anticipate future adversary behaviors.
- Collaborate with security operations incident response and product teams to build effective detection prevention and response mechanisms.
- Publish research findings in whitepapers blogs and at conferences to share insights with the global security community.
- Mentor junior researchers and contribute to team development and capability building.
- Establish and maintain relationships with external intelligence communities law enforcement and trusted partners.
Requirements:
- 8 years of experience in threat intelligence threat research or a related cybersecurity field.
- Proven experience conducting complex investigations into malware threat actor TTPs or large-scale campaigns.
- Strong proficiency in malware analysis tools (IDA Pro Ghidra Radare2) memory forensics and reverse engineering.
- In-depth knowledge of attacker techniques (MITRE ATT&CK) network protocols and operating system internals (Windows Linux macOS).Proficiency in scripting or programming (Python Go C/C) for automation and tooling.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate technical findings into business-relevant insights
- Skilled in writing concise compelling and actionable intelligence reports in English.
- Able to lead intelligence briefings with customers in English.
Preferred:
- Experience with threat hunting and detection engineering in a cloud or enterprise environment.
- Familiarity with cybercrime ecosystems ransomware groups nation-state threats or dark web monitoring.
- Contributions to public threat intelligence reports CVEs or open-source security tools.
- Security certifications such as GIAC GREM GCFA OSCP or equivalent.
Cyderes is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE). Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race religion color sex age disability sexual orientation genetic information national origin or veteran status.
Note: This job posting is intended for direct applicants only. We request that outside recruiters do not contact us regarding this position.
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