Security Engineer - Threat Intel

Washington, DC · Remote · full time · Senior

$320,000 – $405,000

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What this role is

This role involves analyzing sophisticated cyber threats targeting AI companies, building detection systems, and partnering with incident responders to operationalize threat intelligence into defenses. It suits experienced threat intelligence practitioners who combine deep adversary knowledge with strong engineering skills and want to work on high-impact security problems.

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Skills this role names

What they ask for

Required

5+ years of hands-on cyber threat intelligence, threat hunting, or intrusion analysis experience
Deep knowledge of nation-state or advanced criminal threat actors, their tooling, infrastructure, and tradecraft
Production-quality Python or similar programming ability with automation and data pipeline experience
Malware analysis, infrastructure analysis (passive DNS, certificate pivoting, netflow), and log analysis capability
Experience authoring detection logic (YARA, Sigma, Snort/Suricata, or SIEM queries)
Clear and concise technical writing
Active threat intelligence community network with track record of sharing

Nice to have

Experience defending cloud-native and research-heavy environments (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, ML infrastructure)
Prior work tracking sophisticated or state-sponsored adversaries where analysis informed detection and incident response
Experience applying LLMs or AI tooling to accelerate intelligence collection and analysis
Public research, conference talks, or open-source CTI tooling contributions
Bachelor's degree or equivalent