Senior Research Engineer, Threat Intelligence
SecurityScorecardResponsibilities
- Own the path from research output to production-ready detections, feeds, scoring inputs, and customer alerts.
- Build and maintain threat-intelligence platform components including distribution servers, sandbox orchestration, OSINT ingestion, federated sharing endpoints, agent runtimes, and rules engines.
- Create and distribute detection content such as YARA, Sigma, STIX patterns, behavioral indicators, and correlation pipelines.
- Drive STIX 2.1 output-schema adoption and TAXII 2.1 distribution-standard adoption while governing downstream data contracts.
- Automate indicator enrichment, report drafting, corpus correlation, feed normalization, and sandbox triage.
- Develop retrieval-grounded, schema-constrained, evaluated, logged, and cost- and latency-aware language-model workflows with analyst review.
- Coordinate with engineering, measurement, product, and platform teams to deliver research into products and communicate technical work to customers, journalists, or executives when needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field, with strong self-taught practitioners and equivalent public work also considered.
- 5 to 8 years of hands-on engineering experience with meaningful exposure to threat intelligence, security research, or detection engineering.
- Required experience building production systems that consume or emit threat-intelligence data.
- Production-level Python and TypeScript/Node experience.
- Experience with relational and cache data stores and at least one streaming or batch data platform.
- Experience with cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS, containers, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Working knowledge of STIX 2.1, TAXII 2.1, MISP, and MITRE ATT&CK.
- Hands-on experience with YARA, Sigma, and STIX Patterning, including writing detection logic for production workloads.
- Production experience shipping language-model systems with retrieval over real corpora, schema validation, evaluation harnesses, and safeguards against model failures and prompt injection.
- Ability to translate research ideas into deployed pipelines and production systems.
- Preferred qualifications include policy-as-code or expression-language experience, published security research, large-scale telemetry experience, open-source threat-intelligence contributions, familiarity with FAIR, and production-level Golang experience.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and stock options
- Health benefits, unlimited PTO, parental leave, and tuition reimbursement
- Country-specific benefits and compensation
- No immigration sponsorship provided
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About SecurityScorecard
Funded by world-class investors, including Evolution Equity Partners, Silver Lake Partners, Sequoia Capital, GV, Riverwood Capital, and others, SecurityScorecard is the global leader in cybersecurity ratings, response, and resilience, with more than 12 million companies continuously rated. Founded in 2013 by security and risk experts Dr. Aleksandr Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh, SecurityScorecard's patented rating technology is used by over 25,000 organizations for enterprise risk management, third-party risk management, board reporting, due diligence, cyber insurance underwriting, and regulatory oversight. SecurityScorecard makes the world a safer place by transforming the way companies understand, improve and communicate cybersecurity risk to their boards, employees, and vendors. SecurityScorecard is listed as a free cyber tool and service by the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Every organization has the universal right to its trusted and transparent Instant SecurityScorecard rating Founded in 2013 by security and risk experts Dr. Alex Yampolskiy and Sam Kassoumeh, SecurityScorecard’s patented rating technology is used by over 25,000 organizations for self-monitoring, third-party risk management, board reporting and cyber insurance underwriting; making all organizations more resilient by allowing them to easily find and fix security risks across their externally facing digital footprint. SecurityScorecard is the only provider of instant cyber risk ratings that automatically map to vendor cybersecurity questionnaire responses - providing a true 360 degree view of risk. SecurityScorecard continues to make the world a safer place by transforming the way companies understand, improve and communicate security risk to their boards, employees and vendors. To receive an email with your company’s current score, please visit instant.securityscorecard.com.