[Hiring] Threat Researcher @Lumen

Role Description

Black Lotus Labs is seeking a remote Threat Intelligence Researcher on the Research & Analysis team focused on tracking advanced threats. This team leverages Lumen's global visibility across one of the world's largest and most interconnected IP backbones, a petabyte-scale compute, AI-assisted workflows, proprietary telemetry, and third-party data sources to conduct cutting-edge threat research, hunt and track advanced persistent threat actors (APTs), identify emerging criminal infrastructure, and convert large-scale observations into actionable intelligence for customers.

This role sits at the intersection of threat intelligence, data science, and security automation. The successful candidate will help shape the next generation of intelligence operations by:

• Building AI-assisted workflows that augment analyst tradecraft.
• Accelerating threat discovery and detection development.
• Automating enrichment and intelligence production.
• Transforming large-scale telemetry into actionable security insights while maintaining analytical rigor, explainability, and operational guardrails.

Main Responsibilities

• Sets direction for systems, networks, user services and vendor development efforts.
• Consults and assesses industry advances in technical security technologies, and tests solutions to validate features and functions.
• Partners and collaborates with others in the resolution of interoperability issues to obtain successful integration of security solutions across all platforms.
• Ensures the implementation of technical security solutions utilizing expertise learned from multiple and complex client environments.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in threat analysis and in-depth technical security research, with a track record of identifying and tracking nation-state malicious infrastructure activity with an emphasis on network traffic analysis.
• Fluency in advanced threat hunting methodologies, attacker tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), and the ability to derive actionable threat hunts, detections, and intelligence requirements from complex data sets.
• Experience with large-scale data analysis platforms with tools such as PySpark.
• Experience with telemetry collection and analysis, including OSINT, proprietary endpoint and network data, DNS and routing data, TTP-based threat hunting, and/or threat hunt tooling that improves cross-organization visibility and supports public-private or multi-company collaboration.
• Proven communication and presentation skills, including the ability to clearly and concisely convey complex technical findings, automation-derived insights, and intelligence judgments to technical, executive, customer, and partner audiences.

Requirements

• Proficiency in malware reverse engineering and incident response.
• Software development experience with Docker, distributed data technologies such as Hadoop or Spark, cloud AI services, vector databases, workflow orchestration, and machine learning frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch.
• Experience with agentic AI or workflow frameworks such as MCP-based architectures.
• Active TS/SCI.

Compensation

This information reflects the anticipated base salary range for this position based on current national data. Minimums and maximums may vary based on location. Individual pay is based on skills, experience and other relevant factors.

• $129,639 - $172,852 in these states: AL, AR, AZ, FL, GA, IA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, MS, MT, ND, NE, NM, OH, OK, PA, SC, SD, TN, UT, VT, WI, WV, and WY.
• $136,121 - $181,494 in these states: CO, HI, MI, MN, NC, NH, NV, OR, and RI.
• $142,603 - $190,137 in these states: AK, CA, CT, DC, DE, IL, MA, MD, NJ, NY, TX, VA, and WA.

Benefits

Lumen offers a comprehensive package featuring a broad range of Health, Life, Voluntary Lifestyle benefits and other perks that enhance your physical, mental, emotional and financial wellbeing.