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Staff Threat Intelligence Researcher

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full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: AlabamaFloridaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $130,000 - $149,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Identify, analyze and track advanced nation state and financially motivated threat actors and their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
  • Develop strategies to hunt mobile threats targeting enterprises and individuals.
  • Reverse-engineer and analyze capabilities of mobile malware.
  • Investigate adversary command-and-control and phishing infrastructure.
  • Conduct independent research and report findings to Threat Intelligence customers.
  • Mine internal and external data sources to identify new campaigns, malware families, and malicious actors.
  • Devise and implement new detection rules and develop innovative and efficient ways to expand and finetune coverage.
  • Prepare and deliver public media reports and present findings at conferences.
  • Participate in activities involving customers, prospects, and partners.

Requirements

  • Experience in threat hunting across multiple datasets, security tools such as VirusTotal, Validin, and Shodan and leveraging big data technologies (e.g., Lucene, ElasticSearch, AWS Athena).
  • Experience in reverse engineering software (mobile app reversing preferred).
  • Ability to articulate technical findings both in written reports and presentations.
  • Experience using some of the following tools: JEB, IDA Pro, Ghidra, Hopper, Frida, Wireshark, DirBuster.
  • Ability to read code in Java and C; ARM Assembly, ObjectiveC and Swift is a bonus.
  • Experience in conducting OSINT investigations.
  • Ability to create research tools in Python.
  • Experience with threat intelligence file types, tools and terminology such as MITRE ATT&CK, STIX, YARA, MISP, OpenCTI and the Intelligence Cycle.
  • Interest in geopolitical dynamics and the ability to apply that context to inform intelligence analysis and threat hunting activities.
  • Curiosity and a strong drive to understand how both state and criminal actors operate.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
threat huntingreverse engineeringmalware analysisdata miningdetection rules developmentOSINT investigationscoding in Javacoding in CPython research toolsmobile app reversing
Soft Skills
articulate technical findingspresentation skillscuriositydrive to understandanalytical thinking