Associate Security Researcher
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Associate Security Researcher building automated threat research and detection pipelines at Trellix. Developing scalable malware analysis, telemetry, and security policy automation.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the design and development of automated security research and threat detection pipelines
- Drive core automation functionality, threat ingestion workflows, and detection tooling from concept through production
- Own pipeline features and components from initial design and development through testing, false-positive validation, automation, and ongoing operational health
- Build, iterate on, and harden automated threat analysis and detection generation workflows
- Perform automated sample triage and behavioral indicator extraction
- Deploy detection rules across security engines
- Deliver automated detection rules and pipeline services on time and to high quality standards
- Implement pipeline resilience, scalability, and performance across high-volume threat telemetry and sample processing systems
- Build and maintain instrumentation, logging, and dashboards
- Monitor pipeline throughput, detection efficacy, and system health
- Collaborate across engineering, product, and security research teams
Requirements:
- 0–2+ years of experience, including internships, university research, or strong academic/personal projects
- Fresh graduates in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, or related fields encouraged to apply
- Experience in Python or backend software development
- Solid understanding of Linux and/or Windows operating system fundamentals and internals
- Foundational understanding of cybersecurity concepts, malware behavior, common vulnerabilities (CVEs, OWASP), and threat analysis
- Familiarity with threat detection mechanisms and rule formats such as YARA, Sigma, Snort, or behavioral signatures
- Exposure to static/dynamic malware analysis, sandboxes such as Cuckoo/CAPE, or reverse engineering tools such as Ghidra and IDA
- Excellent development and debugging skills in Python or Go/C++
- Strong grasp of data structures, algorithms, and software design patterns
- CI/CD pipeline experience with Git, GitHub Actions, or equivalent
- Strong written communication for technical documentation and async collaboration
- Ability to learn quickly and operate effectively in a fast-moving environment
- Hands-on experimentation with Large Language Models (LLMs) and agentic workflows
- Knowledge of SQL and relational databases such as Postgres or MySQL
- Familiarity with cloud services such as AWS or GCP
- Experience with logging, telemetry, and monitoring tools
- Passion for threat intelligence, automated detection engineering, and scaling security research through software
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across engineering, product, and security research teams
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to engineering and research stakeholders
- Strong analytical mindset, high coachability, and curiosity for solving complex security challenges through code
Benefits:
- Opportunities to expand technical expertise and lead strategic initiatives
- Tools and opportunities to enhance and expand skill sets
- Global impact through work on AI-driven cyber defense
- Full-time employment
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