Director, Security Research

8 hours, 37 minutes ago
Full-time
Executive
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Sysdig

Sysdig

Sysdig provides advanced security solutions for containers, Kubernetes, and cloud environments, enabling organizations to gain visibility and context through runtime insights to proactively prevent cyber attacks.

IT Services
251-1K
Founded 2013
$730M raised

Description

  • Set the threat research agenda, detection roadmap, and team budget.
  • Lead adversary research and detection engineering across AI threats, cloud, identity, and runtime security.
  • Build capabilities addressing model and agent abuse, tool misuse, prompt-layer attacks, AI supply chains, and AI-serving infrastructure.
  • Lead and develop a hands-on team of security researchers and engineers.
  • Own detection content quality, validation, coverage, and evasion resistance.
  • Develop the detection platform, attack-reproduction environments, behavior-based detections, and adversary-deception telemetry.
  • Publish original research through discoveries, CVEs, campaigns, conference presentations, and open-source contributions.
  • Partner with Marketing to develop research-driven content and campaigns.
  • Create attack demonstrations, threat briefings, and advisory materials for Sales Engineering and Customer Success.
  • Work with Product Engineering to guide detection capabilities and assess how attackers could defeat new products.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in security research, threat research, or detection engineering.
  • 4+ years leading and developing researchers, including ownership of strategy, outcomes, and budget.
  • Published or shipped original AI security research involving adversarial ML, agentic or tool-abuse attacks, prompt-layer attacks, model supply chains, or AI-serving infrastructure.
  • Hands-on ability to write code, build tooling, and conduct technical analysis.
  • Experience using AI agents for research and understanding their limitations.
  • Public body of work including original discoveries, CVEs, named campaigns, conference talks, or open-source tooling.
  • Experience owning detection content deployed to real users and validating its resistance to attacker evasion.
  • Deep knowledge of Linux, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud internals at syscall and control-plane levels.
  • Ability to balance open-ended research with customer-driven detection deadlines.
  • Experience with sophisticated adversaries, open-source security project stewardship, and frameworks such as MITRE ATLAS, OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, or NIST AI RMF preferred.
  • Research recognized by mainstream media, CERTs, or the security community preferred.

Benefits

  • Annual salary range of $245,000–$307,000 in the U.S.
  • Extra paid days off for well-being.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with a 3% company match.
  • Maternity and parental leave.
  • Mental health support for employees and families through Modern Health.
  • Full health benefits package for employees and families.
  • Remote work opportunity.

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