Menlo Security Inc.

Senior Security Researcher

Menlo Security Inc.

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: India

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Python

About the role

  • Proactively track and research emerging online threats across the web, dark web, and attacker infrastructure to identify trends and patterns.
  • Build AI-driven and agentic workflows to automate repetitive research tasks such as threat hunting, IOC extraction, artifact enrichment, and pattern recognition
  • Conduct an in-depth research the telemetry for patterns to build or enhance the existing products
  • Develop advanced detection and prevention logic embedded in our browser isolation engine and threat analysis backend pipelines
  • Lead design and development of data pipelines and infrastructure for collecting, analyzing, and classifying high-volume web traffic
  • Partner closely with engineering, product, and threat intelligence teams to ship research-powered features into production
  • Represent Menlo Security at industry conferences and in public research disclosures

Requirements

  • MS or PhD in Computer Science, Security, or related field (or equivalent industry experience)
  • Minimum 4+ years in a security research or applied security engineering role
  • Passionate researcher with a track record of finding, analyzing, and mitigating complex web threats
  • Strong background in browser internals, web application security and detection of real-time threats (e.g., phishing, malicious redirects, credential harvesting, exploit kits)
  • Experience analyzing web-based malware, evasive scripts, obfuscation techniques, and malicious browser extensions
  • Familiarity with DOM analysis, browser automation, browser exploits and passive/active crawling techniques
  • Strong programming skills in Python and automation desired.
  • Knowledge of LLMs, Agentic AI workflow automation is a plus.
  • Prior experience integrating research outputs into a production system is highly desirable
  • Prior experience of writing research blogs and presenting in conferences is desirable
Benefits
  • Competitive salary
  • Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
Pythonbrowser internalsweb application securitydetection of real-time threatsmalware analysisobfuscation techniquesDOM analysisbrowser automationcrawling techniquesLLMs
Soft Skills
researchanalysismitigationcommunicationcollaborationpresentation
Certifications
MS in Computer SciencePhD in Computer ScienceSecurity certifications