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Senior Research Engineer, Threat Intelligence
SecurityScorecardSenior Research Engineer in Threat Intelligence at SecurityScorecard. Work on production-ready artifacts from research outputs in a hybrid team environment.
Posted 7/1/2026full-timeAustin • Texas • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $140,000 - $150,000 per yearWebsite
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSCloudCyber SecurityNode.jsPythonTypeScript
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own the path from research output to production-ready artifact: a detection rule, a distributed feed, a scoring input, or a customer alert
- Build and maintain STRIKE platform components across multiple services and runtimes
- Turn research into shipped detection content: YARA, Sigma, STIX patterns, behavioral indicators, and the pipelines that distribute them
- Drive STIX 2.1 adoption as a unified output schema and TAXII 2.1 as a distribution standard
- Build the automation that removes commodity overhead from research work
- Coordinate with engineering, measurement, and platform product teams so research actually lands in product
Requirements
What you’ll need- Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field
- 5 to 8 years in a hands-on engineering role with meaningful exposure to threat intelligence, security research, or detection engineering
- Prior experience building production systems that consume or emit threat intel data is required
- Python and TypeScript/Node at a production level
- Relational and cache data stores, plus at least one streaming or batch data platform
- Cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), containers, and CI/CD pipelines
- Working knowledge of STIX 2.1, TAXII 2.1, MISP, and MITRE ATT&CK, and how they work together in practice
- Hands-on experience with YARA, Sigma, and STIX Patterning
- Experience with policy-as-code or expression-language engines (CEL, OPA, or similar) (Bonus)
- Published or co-authored security research (campaigns, vulnerabilities, adversary tracking) (Bonus)
Benefits
Comp & perks- competitive salary
- stock options
- Health benefits
- unlimited PTO
- parental leave
- tuition reimbursements
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Hard Skills & Tools
YARASigmaSTIX PatterningRelational Data StoresCache Data StoresStreaming Data PlatformsBatch Data PlatformsCI/CD PipelinesPolicy-as-CodeExpression-Language Engines