Senior Bot Detection Researcher
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Job Location:
New York City, NY - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
We are seeking a Senior Bot Researcher to help with our bot detection strategy within the Research team at Fingerprint. You will identify and own research directions build highquality prototypes and partner with Engineering to translate validated findings into productionready solutions.
What youll do
- Define and own the research strategy for detecting sophisticated bots across browser behavioral and network layers.
- Design and run experiments build research tooling and validate detection hypotheses with rigorous measurement.
- Analyze how advanced scrapers and bot operators work and develop effective countermeasures and evasionresistant signals.
- Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering to prioritize a roadmap and graduate proven concepts into production.
- Track the evolving antibot landscape and publish internal briefs benchmarks and guidance.
You have
- Proven experience working with sophisticated bots from multiple angles for example:
- Building or analyzing scrapers and automation frameworks
- Developing or bypassing bot avoidance and mitigation systems
- Detecting and attributing automated traffic at scale
- Deep knowledge in several of the following areas:
- Browser fingerprinting and client integrity
- Behavioral signal design and anomaly detection
- Networklevel bot detection traffic analysis and reputation
- Antibot evasion techniques and counterevasion design
- Strong reverseengineering skills including JavaScript deobfuscation.
- Solid understanding of web security and privacy mechanisms.
- Ability to move from ambiguous problem statements to clear experiments and measurable outcomes.
- Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
Nice to have
- Experience redteaming bot defenses or operating detection systems in production.
- Contributions to opensource security scraping or detection tooling.
- Proficiency with JavaScript/TypeScript for browser research and Go for backend prototyping.
Tech we use
- Frontend: TypeScript
- Backend: Go
If youre excited to shape the strategy and signals that keep bots out while preserving real users experiences wed love to hear from you.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
- Arm
- Machine Learning
- AI
- C/C++
- R
- Clinical Trials
- Experience Administering Injections
- Research Experience
- Research & Development
- Assembly
- Semantic Web
- Vulnerability Research
About Company
The Fingerprint device intelligence platform works across web and mobile applications to identify all visitors with industry-leading accuracy — even if they’re anonymous.
