Cyber Security Specialist responsible for monitoring and defending against cyberattacks for an international bank in Zurich. Focus on threat intelligence, incident response, and cyber security compliance.
About the role
- Senior Security Researcher analyzing and mitigating complex web threats. Leading automation of security research workflows with AI at Menlo Security.
Responsibilities
- Proactively track and research emerging online threats across the web, dark web, and attacker infrastructure to identify trends and patterns.
- Build AI-driven and agentic workflows to automate repetitive research tasks such as threat hunting, IOC extraction, artifact enrichment, and pattern recognition
- Conduct an in-depth research the telemetry for patterns to build or enhance the existing products
- Develop advanced detection and prevention logic embedded in our browser isolation engine and threat analysis backend pipelines
- Lead design and development of data pipelines and infrastructure for collecting, analyzing, and classifying high-volume web traffic
- Partner closely with engineering, product, and threat intelligence teams to ship research-powered features into production
- Represent Menlo Security at industry conferences and in public research disclosures
Requirements
- MS or PhD in Computer Science, Security, or related field (or equivalent industry experience)
- Minimum 4+ years in a security research or applied security engineering role
- Passionate researcher with a track record of finding, analyzing, and mitigating complex web threats
- Strong background in browser internals, web application security and detection of real-time threats (e.g., phishing, malicious redirects, credential harvesting, exploit kits)
- Experience analyzing web-based malware, evasive scripts, obfuscation techniques, and malicious browser extensions
- Familiarity with DOM analysis, browser automation, browser exploits and passive/active crawling techniques
- Strong programming skills in Python and automation desired.
- Knowledge of LLMs, Agentic AI workflow automation is a plus.
- Prior experience integrating research outputs into a production system is highly desirable
- Prior experience of writing research blogs and presenting in conferences is desirable
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Professional development opportunities
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