AI Security Researcher
Cynet Security
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
Visit company websiteJob Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
Cyber SecurityPythonSparkSQL
About the role
- Drive innovation by combining deep security research with modern AI techniques to build impactful, customer-facing security capabilities.
- Build and refine intelligent generative AI agents that drive automated cybersecurity reasoning, investigation workflows, and threat analysis.
- Extend and enhance our next-generation AI antivirus engine by designing new feature representations, building file parsers, and developing ML models end-to-end.
- Engineer and implement core parser and model components in C++ and Python to seamlessly integrate into the Cynet Endpoint Agent and platform infrastructure.
- Use Cynet’s ML experimentation pipelines to run experiments, optimize performance, and deliver production-ready detection models.
- Serve as the cybersecurity expert within the Data Science team, guiding threat modeling, malware understanding, and security-driven AI design decisions.
Requirements
- 5+ years of hands-on cybersecurity research experience.
- Proven experience working with EDR , malware analysis, threat detection, and security tooling.
- Proficiency in C, C++, and Python with strong debugging abilities.
- Solid understanding of Windows internals , including low-level OS concepts.
- Experience with static and dynamic analysis , reverse engineering, and real-world threat investigations.
- A scientific, data-driven approach to problem-solving, from ideation through experimentation and production.
- Strong understanding of statistical concepts and ML feature engineering techniques.
- Experience analyzing large-scale datasets using SQL, Spark, or similar tools.
Benefits
- N/A 📊 Check your resume score for this job Improve your chances of getting an interview by checking your resume score before you apply. Check Resume Score
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
C++PythonCmachine learningmalware analysisthreat detectionstatic analysisdynamic analysisreverse engineeringSQL
Soft skills
problem-solvingdata-driven approachcommunicationcollaborationleadership