Senior Security Researcher Autonomous EDR (Cortex)
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Job Location:
Tel Aviv-Yafo - Israel
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
07-11-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Department:
Job Summary
Your Career
We are looking for a Security Researcher to join our research group as part of a growing team developing Autopilot an innovative product for autonomous investigation and response.
As a core member of the team youll go beyond research: youll research design and develop investigation modules that allow Autopilot to autonomously detect investigate and respond to advanced threats at a massive scale.
Youll analyze everything from new malware behaviors to attacker techniques and process activity in enterprise-scale networks using data collected from across millions of endpoints. Your work will span identifying attack patterns and uncovering statistical anomalies as well as validating that the system responds effectively to real-world attacks and APT campaigns using production data.
Your Impact
- Research and implement new autonomous methods for investigating and responding to targeted attackers using large-scale diverse security datasets
- Develop and design the graph-based algorithms that power autonomous investigation and decision-making capabilities
- Design automated incident response by developing reusable logic that transforms raw security data and alerts into clear actionable insights.
- Leverage graph algorithms AI techniques and statistical methods to mimic and scale human security analyst workflows
- Conduct deep hands-on investigations into modern malware APTs and complex attack flows to inform detection and response logic
- Stay up to date with attacker methodologies tools and techniques (TTPs) ensuring our product remains effective against evolving threats
- Contribute to a collaborative fast-paced research team helping shape our research strategy improve processes and continuously enhance the product
Qualifications :
Your Experience
- 5 years of experience in security or threat research in which you conducted deep research with actionable insights and real-world impact.
- Proven experience as part of an R&D/development team along with strong proficiency in Python programming
- Intimate knowledge and understanding of attack methods and techniques over endpoints and enterprise networks
- Comfortable working with large-scale datasets to extract meaningful insights through advanced analysis
- Strong sense of ownership and ability to independently drive projects from concept to execution
- Critical thinker who thrives both independently and in collaborative team environments
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- A cybersecurity professional driven to solve the next generation of security challenges.
- Advantage : In-depth knowledge of the inner workings of operating systems (especially Windows)
- Experience working with graph DB and algorithms
- Experience in statistics advanced data studies or machine learning
Additional Information :
The Team
Our research team is at the core of our products and connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. We are constantly innovating - challenging the way we and the industry think about cybersecurity. Our researchers dont shy away from building products to solve problems no one has pursued before.
We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity excited by the prospect of a challenge and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.
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Our Commitment
Were problem solvers that take risks and challenge cybersecuritys status quo. Its simple: we cant accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating together.
We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need please contact us at .
Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age ancestry color family or medical care leave gender identity or expression genetic information marital status medical condition national origin physical or mental disability political affiliation protected veteran status race religion sex (including pregnancy) sexual orientation or other legally protected characteristics.
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
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About Company
Our enterprise security platform detects and prevents known and unknown threats while safely enabling an increasingly complex and rapidly growing number of applications. Come be part of the team that redefined the firewall industry and is now the fastest-growing security company in hi ... View more
