Malware Research Engineer

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We’re looking for a Malware Research Engineer who combines strong manual research skills with the ability to automate their work. You’ll analyze malware with Binary Ninja, create YARA and Sigma rules, develop behavioral detections, and build agents that can take on more of the research and investigation process.

You should be comfortable analyzing a difficult sample by hand and then thinking about how to do the same work at scale.

Responsibilities

• Research and reverse engineer malware using Binary Ninja, dynamic analysis, and endpoint telemetry.
• Create, test, and maintain YARA, Sigma, and behavioral detection rules.
• Turn research findings into detections across files, processes, persistence, memory, identity, and network activity.
• Build agents that can triage samples, use analysis tools, extract behavior, propose detections, and validate their results.
• Build investigation workflows that correlate endpoint events, test hypotheses, and reconstruct what happened.
• Develop evals and feedback loops to measure and improve the quality of our agents and detections.
• Help define the architecture, research direction, and product capabilities of our EDR.
• Work closely with engineering to get new ideas into production quickly.