Forensic Research Group Leader jobs in Israel

Key Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for the complete software development life cycle including requirement analysis, design, development and deployment
• Take part in integrating the newest features and technologies, automate workflows, and create user friendly tools and frameworks for researchers.
• Produce elegant, generic, modular and extendable code
• Actively influence the processes and methods for researchers, affecting their day to day life

Required Qualifications

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent knowledge or equivalent military experience required
• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• Expertise in Python and Python internals
• Experience in designing, building and maintaining a user facing application/API
• Experience with Git or other source controls
• Good communication skills
• Self-driven with the ability to work independently, take initiative, and drive processes end-to-end

Advantages

• Experience with Kubernetes/Docker
• Experience with cloud infrastructure (GCP specifically)
• Knowledge of the cyber field
• Experienced with a variety of database technologies (Mysql / RocksDB / Google BigQuery)

We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Career

As a Senior Technical Research Auditor for Cortex Research, you will be honing and communicating high-quality, groundbreaking cybersecurity and threat intelligence research for Palo Alto Networks XDR & XSIAM Cortex Research Department. This is a highly technical role, and a strong research/technical background is a key qualification. Your goal is to work closely with Cortex researchers and the Unit 42 publishing team to ensure our research is clearly communicated in well-produced research articles and other written, recorded and visual materials. You will also engage in communication with external vendors and industry partners. Constant collaboration with various research groups, Corporate Communications, Legal, and Content Marketing teams is essential to help raise the profile of our research and improve our brand visibility.

Your Impact

• Work with researchers to ensure high-quality, accurate, well-written pieces that are ready for publication through our Threat Research Center, social media and other properties.

• Assist researchers with understanding how to translate complex technical research into clear storytelling that resonates with media and other non-technical audiences.

• Review and fact-check the data and claims in our threat research publications.

• Weigh in on technical research topics, such as: threat intelligence, malware analysis, reverse engineering, threat hunting, threat actor attribution, cloud and identity related attacks, endpoint security, and more.

• Make necessary corrections and/or coordinate with other teams to identify who can resolve outstanding issues in a piece.

• Maintain awareness of when additional notification and coordination is necessary in order to responsibly disclose our findings, including vulnerabilities.

• Work with the publishing team in our ongoing effort to improve our guidelines, processes and scheduling.

Your Experience

• Proven experience writing and/or reviewing cybersecurity research content, including topics, such as: malware, APT, vulnerabilities, incident response, penetration testing, cloud security, threat intelligence briefings.

• Deep familiarity with cybersecurity-related technical terms, and common frameworks such as the MITRE ATT&CK framework and demonstrate a good understanding of attack lifecycles.

• Familiarity with key concepts and terms in endpoint security, network security, identity and cloud security.

• Able to understand highly technical cybersecurity content and improve how it is communicated to a broad audience.

• Strong communicator with extraordinary writing, communication and editing skills.

• Strong attention to detail.

• Experience in online content production.

• Proven ability to manage communications and meet deadlines across complex, global stakeholder groups, with experience working in a multicultural environment and coordinating across different time zones.

• Native English speaker or English level equivalent to CEFR’s C2 level requirements.

Advantages

• Proven experience or relevant certifications in any of the following disciplines: penetration testing, threat intelligence, threat hunting, incident response, malware analysis, SOC analysis, cloud security.

• Experience in technical writing or editing in a research publication environment (academic, nonprofit or corporate).

• Reasonable command of Python, SQL or other coding languages.

We define the industry instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of a challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

Your Impact

You will take a hands-on role in developing test automation frameworks, strategies, and solutions to support high-quality product releases. Key responsibilities include,

• Analyzing business and functional requirements to drive meaningful test coverage

• AI-Driven Test Design: Leverage AI/ML for intelligent Automated Test Design for APIs, UI, and back-end systems

• AI Fluency in Practice: Utilize generative AI and other AI-powered tools for efficient test code generation, synthetic data creation, and anomaly detection within our applications and CI/CD pipelines.

• Collaborating with cross-functional teams across geographies to ensure test efficiency and effectiveness

• Contributing to tool development, CI/CD pipelines, and innovative quality solutions like test data management and heuristic analysis

Your Experience

• 4+ years of hands-on experience in Quality Engineering or Software Development in Test (SDET).

• Strong programming skills in Python, Java, or a similar object-oriented languages (2 years experience preferred)

• Strong practical knowledge and experience applying AI/ML concepts and tools to software quality challenges. This includes hands-on experience with generative AI for code/test generation.

• Experience in test automation framework development and tooling for large-scale systems

• Experience with AI-powered copilot tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Playwrite, Cursor & Amp) for script generation and development productivity.

• Hands-on expertise with CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, Docker, or Harness

• Exposure to innovative QA practices like test data generation, mocking, or AI-based test insights

• Strong understanding of RESTful APIs, test design, and integration strategies

• Strong communication skills and can-do attitude

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.