Head of Security Research
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Head of Security Research leading a team of security experts at Dropzone AI. Overseeing threat intelligence, detection engineering, and building an elite security team.
Responsibilities:
- Lead & Build a High-Impact Security Engineering and Research Team
- Build a team of elite security engineers and world-class domain experts across Detection and Response, including alert investigation, threat hunting, detection engineering, and threat intelligence
- Act as a player/coach, setting strategic research and engineering directions while staying deeply involved in technical work
- Establish a culture of high-quality research, rapid iteration, and operator-first thinking
- Drive Product Effectiveness
- Build and refine measurement and evaluation frameworks to ensure the analysis our agents produced is high quality and mirrors expert human outputs
- Owns the process of encoding expert human intuitions and techniques into our agentic system
- Work closely with rest of engineering to continuously improve the efficacy of our agents in real world deployments
- Reimagine Detection and Response with agents
- Prototype and test new ideas where unlimited analytical capacity can fundamentally change cyber defense
- Serve as a key voice in shaping Dropzone’s product roadmap based on real-world operation experience
- Pressure-test assumptions about how AI should be applied in security operations
- Help define what “autonomous defense system” actually looks like in practice and be an industry thought leader around it
Requirements:
- 8+ years in detection and response with strong experience in security engineering, threat hunting, SOC, or incident response
- 3+ years experience managing a team of security engineers, threat hunters, SOC analysts, etc
- Background in building and running SOC functions, detection programs, or security research teams
- Proven experience leading high-performing technical teams while staying hands-on
- Able to mentor across multiple domains (detections, intel, IR) without being siloed
- Opinionated about what world-class looks like in threat intelligence, hunting, detection engineering, SOC, and IR
- Able to collaborate closely with engineering and product teams
- Early-stage startup mindset. You thrive on ambiguity and move with lightspeed execution.
Benefits:
- company paid health insurance
- 401K Plan with employer match
- Self-Managed PTO
- parental leave
- more
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