Lead Security Researcher - AI Threat Intelligence

8 hours, 24 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Data Science and Analytics
Cato Networks

Cato Networks

Cato Networks is the world's leading single vendor SASE platform that converges SD WAN, security, global backbone, and remote access into a global cloud-native service. Their robust platform optimizes and secures application access for all users and lo...

Diversified Telecommunication Services
251-1K
Founded 2015
$770M raised

Description

  • Lead threat intelligence research focused on AI-related threats, threat actors, attack techniques, and emerging cybersecurity trends.
  • Analyze internal and external security data to identify attack patterns, campaigns, and actionable intelligence.
  • Explore large-scale datasets using SQL and other data analysis methods to generate research insights.
  • Build tools, workflows, and agentic systems to automate research, investigation, and intelligence production.
  • Research how attackers use AI and how AI can improve threat detection, investigation, and response.
  • Publish blogs, reports, threat intelligence summaries, whitepapers, and customer-facing insights.
  • Present research at cybersecurity conferences, webinars, company events, and customer-facing sessions.
  • Collaborate with product, data, engineering, and research teams to improve detections and product intelligence.
  • Independently lead research initiatives from idea and data exploration through publication and presentation.
  • Travel internationally for company events and cybersecurity conferences at least six times per year.

Requirements

  • At least 5 years of hands-on experience in cybersecurity, threat intelligence, security research, or security analysis.
  • Strong understanding of the cybersecurity threat landscape, including threat actors, malware, phishing, C&C, exploitation, cloud threats, and attacker behavior.
  • Proven experience in threat intelligence research, including IOCs, TTPs, MITRE ATT&CK, campaign tracking, and threat actor profiling.
  • Strong data exploration skills, with practical experience using SQL to analyze large-scale security datasets.
  • Experience using AI tools, AI coding assistants, and agentic workflows for research, automation, and data analysis.
  • Ability to build scripts, internal tools, or agentic systems to support threat research and intelligence workflows.
  • Strong technical writing skills, with experience publishing blogs, reports, whitepapers, or public research.
  • Strong presentation skills, with the ability to represent the company at conferences and external events.
  • Self-learner with high curiosity, strong ownership, and the ability to manage complex research independently.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including product, engineering, and data teams.
  • Fluent English with excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Willingness to travel abroad for conferences, customer events, and company events at least six times per year.
  • Experience researching AI threats, LLM abuse, AI-assisted attacks, or AI-powered detection is advantageous.
  • Experience building agentic systems, automation frameworks, or AI-based research workflows is advantageous.
  • Background in engineering, backend systems, data infrastructure, or security platform development is advantageous.
  • Experience with data warehouses, BI tools, notebooks, or large-scale telemetry analysis is advantageous.
  • Experience with XDR, MDR, SIEM, EDR, NDR, SASE, or cloud security products is advantageous.

Interested in this position?

Apply directly on the company website

Apply Now

Similar Roles

Sr. Data Scientist, Marketing

Pinterest 5K-10K Internet Software & Services

Pinterest is hiring a Data Scientist for its Marketing team to improve marketing measurement and optimization that support revenue growth and strategic decision-making.

Feature Engineering Hive Machine Learning Python R SQL Statistics
7 hours, 39 minutes ago

Climate Scientist (Supply)

Supercritical 11-50 Professional Services

Supercritical is hiring a Carbon Dioxide Removal Quality and Vetting specialist to assess project quality and risk, strengthen trust in carbon removal credits, and help scale its marketplace for high-integrity CDR projects.

7 hours, 54 minutes ago

Senior Bioinformatics Scientist

Natera 1K-5K Pharmaceuticals

Natera is hiring a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist to lead the development and automation of high-throughput genomic analysis pipelines for next-generation sequencing data in a production environment.

C++ Java Linux MySQL Perl Python Shell Scripting
7 hours, 54 minutes ago

Data Scientist, Air Dominance & Strike

Anduril Industries 1K-5K Aerospace & Defense

Anduril Industries is seeking a Data Scientist to support the Air Dominance & Strike team’s autonomous defense systems by turning large, complex datasets into actionable insights for products like Fury, Barracuda, and Lattice for Mission Autonomy.

Apache Spark AWS Azure Computer Vision Docker GCP Kubernetes Pandas Python
8 hours, 24 minutes ago

You're on a roll! Sign up now to keep applying.

Sign Up

Already have an account? Log in

Used by 14,729+ remote workers