Hybrid Senior Cybersecurity Threat Researcher

Posted 3 weeks ago

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About the role

  • Research and analyze malicious traffic, attacker behavior, and the emerging role of AI in offensive and defensive security
  • Investigate and document adversarial ML/AI techniques, AI-driven automation, and misuse of generative AI in real-world attacks
  • Build small tools, LLM-based applications, or datasets that demonstrate AI’s role in security (both protective and adversarial)
  • Explore and prototype with modern frameworks such as Model Context Protocol (MCP) and agent-based systems
  • Translate complex findings into articles, reports, visuals, or presentations for a wide range of audiences
  • Collaborate with a small team of researchers, engineers, and communicators to deliver timely and relevant insights
  • Represent F5 Labs externally via blog posts, webinars, podcasts, media interviews, and industry events
  • Support marketing and sales enablement efforts with high-impact research and commentary
  • Maintain a strong understanding of offensive and defensive practices, with particular focus on web, API, bot, DDoS, and AI-related threats
  • Optionally, participate in proactive research efforts including honeypots, probing attacker infrastructure, and experimenting with AI-powered defense systems.

Requirements

  • ~10 years of experience in cybersecurity or a closely related field
  • Strong grasp of common web, cloud, and API protocols and their associated attack surfaces (e.g., HTTP/S, REST, OAuth, DNS, TLS, etc.)
  • Experience analyzing network, application, or AI telemetry to extract meaningful security insights
  • Strong coding and data handling skills, especially in Python and Jupyter (SQL or BigQuery a plus)
  • Ability to prototype with LLM APIs, frameworks, or agents; familiarity with building AI-enabled applications
  • Excellent written, visual, and verbal communication skills, with a clear ability to tell stories with data
  • A self-starter who can independently define and deliver meaningful research projects
  • Public speaking experience or a willingness to represent research externally
  • Enthusiastic about educating others and promoting good security practices.

Benefits

  • Exceptional benefits

Job title

Senior Cybersecurity Threat Researcher

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$156,800 - $235,200 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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