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Microsoft Senior Security Researcher 
Taiwan, Taoyuan City 
276597328

15.05.2025


Required qualifications -

  • 5+ years experience (minimum) in software development lifecycle, large-scale computing, modeling, cybersecurity, and/or anomaly detection OR Master's Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or related field.
  • 3+ years of experience (minimum) in reverse engineering malware that are associated with APT or financially motivated groups
  • 3+ years experience analyzing malicious desktop, mobile and web applications developed in common programming languages such as x86/x86-64 Assembly, ARM, C, C++, C#, Visual Basic, PowerShell, Ruby, Python, ActionScript, ASP, Java, JavaScript, HTML, etc.
  • 3+ years experience using commercial and open-source malware analysis tools and platforms such as debuggers, disassemblers, decompilers, sandboxes and virtualization solutions.
Responsibilities
  • Conducting triage and compressive analysis of known and suspected malicious applications, documents, network traffic and artifacts in support of MSTIC’s threat actor pursuit mission, services, and products.
  • Reverse engineering & binary analysis to include dynamic and static malware analysis.
  • Tactical software development to support triage and analysis of datasets and information associated with APT activity and behavior as well as APT artifact analysis.
  • Contributing host- and network-based detection signatures/scripts to a variety of Microsoft products and services.
  • Maintaining up to date and in-depth technical understanding and knowledge of the latest offensive and defensive Tactics, Techniques and Procedures (TTPs).
  • Maintaining up to date and in-depth technical knowledge of adversary capabilities, infrastructure, and techniques that can be applied to define, develop, and implement techniques to discover and track the adversaries of today and identify the attacks of tomorrow.
  • Maintaining up to date and in-depth knowledge across all critical elements and common data types used in threat intelligence analysis, including malware used in targeted adversary campaigns; host and log forensics including methods of data collection and analytic techniques; and network forensics including common protocols and how those are used in adversary operations