Senior Research Engineer, Threat Intelligence
SecurityScorecardBase Salary
$140k - $150k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the path from research output to production-ready detections, distributed feeds, scoring inputs, or 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 detection content and correlation pipelines using YARA, Sigma, STIX patterns, behavioral indicators, scan data, attack-surface signals, vulnerability data, and adversary tracking.
- Drive adoption of STIX 2.1 as an output schema and TAXII 2.1 as a distribution standard while governing durable data contracts.
- Automate indicator enrichment, report drafting, corpus correlation, feed normalization, sandbox triage, retrieval-grounded outputs, schema validation, evaluation, cost accounting, latency budgeting, prompt versioning, and output logging.
- Coordinate with engineering, measurement, and platform product teams to deliver research into products and communicate the work to customers, journalists, or executives when needed.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, cybersecurity, or a related technical field, or strong public work as a self-taught practitioner.
- 5–8 years of hands-on engineering experience with meaningful exposure to threat intelligence, security research, or detection engineering.
- Prior experience building production systems that consume or emit threat-intelligence data is required.
- Production-level Python and TypeScript/Node experience is required.
- Experience with relational and cache data stores, at least one streaming or batch data platform, cloud infrastructure, containers, and CI/CD pipelines is required.
- Working knowledge of STIX 2.1, TAXII 2.1, MISP, and MITRE ATT&CK is required.
- Hands-on experience with YARA, Sigma, and STIX Patterning, including malware-analysis output, adversary-infrastructure data, and production detection logic, is required.
- Production experience using language models with retrieval over a real corpus, structured output validation, regression evaluation harnesses, cost analysis, and awareness of model failure modes is required.
- Bonus qualifications include policy-as-code or expression-language engines such as CEL or OPA, published security research, large-scale telemetry with Splunk, Kinesis, or NetFlow, contributions to MISP, OpenCTI, Sigma, STIX, or ATT&CK, familiarity with FAIR, and production-level Golang.
- Strong ability to bridge research and engineering, independently turn ideas into deployed pipelines, and communicate with technical and nontechnical stakeholders is expected.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, stock options, health benefits, unlimited PTO, parental leave, and tuition reimbursement are offered, with details varying by country.
- The role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship.
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About SecurityScorecard
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