Description

SparkCognition catalyzes sustainable growth for their clients throughout the world with proven artificial intelligence (AI) systems, award-winning machine learning technology, and a multinational team of AI thought leaders. Clients are trusted with advancing lives, infrastructure, sustainability, and financial systems across the globe. They partner with SparkCognition to understand their industry’s most pressing challenges, analyze complex data, empower decision-making, and transform human and industrial productivity. With leading-edge artificial intelligence products—Darwin®️, DeepArmor®️, SparkPredict®️, and DeepNLP^TM—SparkCognition’s clients can adapt to a rapidly changing digital landscape and accelerate their business strategies. 

Our DeepArmor Team is looking for an innovative Senior Security Threat Researcher to join us to help evolve the next generation of endpoint protection and artificial intelligence solutions in the Cybersecurity field. You will immerse yourself in cutting-edge research and work with the latest technologies to deliver value to the industry-leading endpoint protection product, DeepArmor.

If you were working for us today, you would be:

• Producing comprehensive threat reports and providing actionable malware intelligence on emerging threats to fellow team members and executives
• Producing material for use in our blogs, marketing, and white papers relating to vulnerabilities, threat research, and emerging threats
• Providing penetration testing of DeepArmor and its underlying infrastructure
• Providing engineering expertise on both existing and novel attack protections to help drive next-generation capabilities within the product suite
• Reverse engineering samples to help drive improvements to the protection against and detection of malware within the product suite

 You may be a fit for our team if you have:

• 5 years or more experience reverse engineering zero-day malware across executables, documents, and scripts to determine their unique characteristics, behavior, and effective countermeasures to properly classify ahead of execution
• Excellent written and verbal skills presenting threat research to both cyber and non-cyber security audiences
• Experience developing proof of concepts for vulnerabilities in applications and operating systems
• Fluent with dissemblers and sandboxing tools such as IDA and Cuckoo
• Passion for keeping current on emerging threats and TTPs
• Are a US Citizen

It would be great if you have:

• One or more of the following certifications: CISSP, Offensive Security, GIAC
• Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK and NIST 800-53 Frameworks
• Familiarity with network protocols from a red teaming perspective
• Experience working on an AGILE Team
• Experience writing kernel-level drivers (Linux, macOS, and Windows)
• Experience with low-level Operating System APIs
• Experience programming with C#
• Experience with Machine Learning or Deep Learning
• Experience on either Red and/or Blue Security Operations Teams