דרושים United States, District Of Columbia, Research Associate

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

Your Career

We need an experienced engineer with a passion for building, deploying, and scaling our Security AI systems and environment. This is a hands-on role that combines research, devops and data science. The role requires a constant creative trailblazing mindset and novel non-linear thinking. You will develop and enhance complex agentic AI products, architect for scale, and optimize for performance. Additionally, you will be responsible for turning innovative AI concepts into robust, efficient, and reliable services for multiple teams.

Your Impact

• Research, Evaluate and leverage the power of AI and LLMs in cybersecurity
• Perform complex AI evaluations on LLM based cybersecurity features and products
• Implement and optimize advanced AI/LLM systems, including complex RAG pipelines and efficient multi-tool agentic workflows
• Develop and contribute to AI frameworks and services that provide game-changing capabilities
• Transform strategic vision into production-grade reality
• Perform Data-driven research on big data platforms

Your Experience

• 3+ years experience as an engineer / researcher
• Expert-level proficiency in Python
• Hands-on experience with AI systems and agentic AI workflows
• Hands-on LLM experience: AI best practices, prompt engineering, model selection, etc
• An innovator's mindset: You thrive on solving ambiguous, open-ended problems and are driven to build novel solutions where no playbook exists.
• Cybersecurity experience - Big Advantage
• Practical experience with modern MLOps/DevOps tools and practices - Big Advantage
• Experience with XDR/SIEM/EDR/NDR product - Advantage

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 key member of Layer-7 Security group, you will be responsible for designing and developing security features on the next-generation firewalls. You will work with product management on user requirements, apply your knowledge to functional design, utilize your programming skills for efficient and robust implementation, and interact with quality assurance and field support teams throughout the entire software development cycle.

Your Impact

• Technical leadership and end-to-end delivery of solutions in collaboration with cross-functional product management, development and quality assurance teams in a fast paced environment

• You will work to design, implement and troubleshoot next generation cloud security solutions

• Hands-on participation in developing next generation cloud security architecture

• You will participate in all phases of the product development cycle, from definition, design, through implementation and test

• Lead cross-functionally with Product Management, SRE, Software, and Quality Engineering teams to deliver new security as a service offering to the market in a timely fashion with excellent quality

• Develop a strong culture of diversity, intellectual curiosity, problem-solving, and openness

• Work closely with customer support teams to improve end-customer outcomes

• Foster innovation in the organization

Your Experience

• Excellent team player with strong coding, analytical and problem-solving skills
• Hands-on experience with cloud distributed systems and high scale designs and in developing high performance distributed software applications
• Experience in cloud technologies like Kafka, Elastic Search, SQL, Google Big Query or equivalent
• Experience with backend development (Rest APIs, Databases, Serverless computing) of distributed cloud applications.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes or other container orchestration platforms
• Good understanding of public cloud design considerations and limitations in areas of microservice architectures, security, global network infrastructure, distributed systems, and load balancing with strong cloud service trouble-shooting skills.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP and Networking is highly desirable
• Experience in GCP or AWS is a plus
• M.S/B.S degree in Computer Science or equivalent and 7+ years of relevant experience required.
• Hands-on programming experience in one or more of the following: GO/Java(Primary), Python; Working knowledge of C is highly desirable
• High energy and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment with a can-do attitude

Compensation Disclosure

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/commissioned roles) is expected to be between $0 - $0/YR. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found .

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

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 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.