Director of Enterprise Security
F5
CloudCyber SecurityITSMSDLC
Senior Cybersecurity Threat Researcher
F5
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Field • Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $156,800 - $235,200 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
BigQueryCloudCyber SecurityDNSPythonSQL
About the role
- Research and analyze malicious traffic, attacker behavior, and the emerging role of AI in offensive and defensive security
- Investigate and document adversarial ML/AI techniques, AI-driven automation, and misuse of generative AI in real-world attacks
- Build small tools, LLM-based applications, or datasets that demonstrate AI’s role in security (both protective and adversarial)
- Explore and prototype with modern frameworks such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agent-based systems
- Translate complex findings into articles, reports, visuals, or presentations for a wide range of audiences
- Collaborate with a small team of researchers, engineers, and communicators to deliver timely and relevant insights
- Represent F5 Labs externally via blog posts, webinars, podcasts, media interviews, and industry events
- Support marketing and sales enablement efforts with high-impact research and commentary
- Maintain a strong understanding of offensive and defensive practices, with particular focus on web, API, bot, DDoS, and AI-related threats
- Optionally, participate in proactive research efforts including honeypots, probing attacker infrastructure, and experimenting with AI-powered defense systems.
Requirements
- ~10 years of experience in cybersecurity or a closely related field
- Strong grasp of common web, cloud, and API protocols and their associated attack surfaces (e.g., HTTP/S, REST, OAuth, DNS, TLS, etc.)
- Experience analyzing network, application, or AI telemetry to extract meaningful security insights
- Strong coding and data handling skills, especially in Python and Jupyter (SQL or BigQuery a plus)
- Ability to prototype with LLM APIs, frameworks, or agents; familiarity with building AI-enabled applications
- Excellent written, visual, and verbal communication skills, with a clear ability to tell stories with data
- A self-starter who can independently define and deliver meaningful research projects
- Public speaking experience or a willingness to represent research externally
- Enthusiastic about educating others and promoting good security practices.
Benefits
- Exceptional benefits
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
cybersecuritymalicious traffic analysisadversarial ML/AI techniquesAI-driven automationPythonJupyterLLM APIsdata handlingnetwork telemetry analysisapplication telemetry analysis
Soft skills
written communicationvisual communicationverbal communicationstorytelling with dataself-starterindependent researchpublic speakingteam collaborationeducating otherspromoting security practices
