[Hiring] Threat Researcher @GreyNoise Intelligence

Role Description

GreyNoise is hiring a Threat Researcher who will develop and exploit first, second, and third-party access and sources to produce cyber threat intelligence that practitioners will use to detect, disrupt, and impose cost on adversaries.

• Hypothesis and lead driven hunting through existing first-party data and telemetry to identify, analyze, and expose new and novel malicious cyber activity and campaigns
• Cluster, track, attribute, research, and disrupt malicious cyber threats
• Develop and integrate new intelligence information, data sources, tools, systems, and tradecraft to produce a more comprehensive threat picture
• Produce and disseminate actionable intelligence to customers and the public

Qualifications

• Deep understanding of computer networking fundamentals and protocols
• Deep technical ability to hunt through network traffic (full PCAP) at the macro and packet level
• Deep technical skills with offensive tooling, tradecraft, and exploitation methodologies against network edge devices
• Experience in open and commercial source intelligence research (public blogs, commercial data sets, etc)
• Experience with hardware and embedded systems
• Experience with query languages (such as SQL)
• Experience producing and tuning detection rules (such as Suricata, YARA, etc)
• Experience with binary analysis and reverse engineering
• Experience with cyber threat intelligence frameworks and analytical tradecraft
• Experience tracking and analyzing threats using graph-based analysis tools (e.g., Synapse)
• Experience using AI (prompt engineering, harness engineering, etc)
• Experience presenting at relevant security and intelligence community conferences

Benefits

• 💵 Equity in a high-growth, Series-A startup
• 👩‍⚕️ 100% covered health, dental, vision, and life plans for all employees
• 6️⃣ Competitive 401k employer match of 6%, which is special for a startup. This will be 100% matched and vested from day 1
• 🏖 Flexible paid time off. To encourage time off from work and ensure overall employee health and wellness, GreyNoise strongly recommends each employee to take at least 120 hours of PTO (3 weeks) annually, including at least five consecutive business days
• 🌎 Remote-first culture. While we are headquartered in the Washington DC area, we have a distributed workforce -- with the majority of our team working remotely from across the country
• 💻 Equipment budget. Every new employee gets an Apple Mac laptop and a $500 stipend for any equipment accessories.
• 👼 Paid family leave for all employees. We offer 4 months of paid leave (birth or adoption), plus 2 months of optional unpaid leave, so new parents have time to adjust to the new life (and work) schedule
• 📚 Learning & development budget. All employees receive an annual $1,500 towards professional development related to their job function. The stipend can be applied to tuition, books, conferences, and more
• 🌴 Company offsites and monthly local hangouts to encourage team bonding