Staff Security Researcher

Menlo Securitys mission is enabling the world to connect communicate and collaborate securely without compromise. COVID-19 has made our mission all the more real. We support customers across various enterprises including Fortune 500 companies 9 / 10 of the largest global banks and the Department of Defense.

The world has fundamentally changed. We are growing from 400 employees into the next phase of our journey and we need passionate talent filled with empathy and agility. The right candidate for the job is ethical hyper-organized fanatical about seeing things through to completion service-oriented and humble enough to take feedback and coaching yet confident enough to provide feedback and coaching.

Menlo is well-funded for growth and our investors are second to none. They include Vista Equity Partners ( Vista) General Catalyst JPMC American Express HSBC and Ericsson Ventures.

About Menlo Security

Menlo Security protects organizations from cyber threats by isolating all web and email traffic in the cloud eliminating malware before it reaches users. Our Isolation Core platform secures some of the worlds largest enterprises without compromising performance. Join us to help build the future of threat prevention at scale.

Your Impact

As a Staff Security Researcher at Menlo Security you will drive the future of web threat protection by researching real-world web-based attacks and applying your insights to enhance Menlos browser isolation platform. You will also lead the transformation of security research workflows using AI and agentic automation allowing our team to operate at a radically faster and more scalable pace.

Our Expectations

Proactively track and research emerging online threats across the web dark web and attacker infrastructure to identify trends and patterns.

Build AI-driven and agentic workflows to automate repetitive research tasks such as threat hunting IOC extraction artifact enrichment and pattern recognition

Conduct an in-depth research the telemetry for patterns to build or enhance the existing products

Develop advanced detection and prevention logic embedded in our browser isolation engine and threat analysis backend pipelines

Lead design and development of data pipelines and infrastructure for collecting analyzing and classifying high-volume web traffic

Partner closely with engineering product and threat intelligence teams to ship research-powered features into production

Represent Menlo Security at industry conferences and in public research disclosures Your Experience

Passionate researcher with a track record of finding analyzing and mitigating complex web threats

Strong background in browser internals web application security and detection of real-time threats (e.g. phishing malicious redirects credential harvesting exploit kits)

Experience analyzing web-based malware evasive scripts obfuscation techniques and malicious browser extensions

Familiarity with DOM analysis browser automation browser exploits and passive / active crawling techniques

Experience in malware traffic analysis signature writing and working with indicators of compromise (IOCs)

Strong programming skills in Python and automation desired.

Knowledge of LLMs Agentic AI workflow automation is a plus.

Prior experience integrating research outputs into a production system is highly desirable

Prior experience of writing research blogs and presenting in conferences is desirable

Qualifications

MS or PhD in Computer Science Security or related field (or equivalent industry experience)

Minimum 7 years in a security research or applied security engineering role

Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to clearly articulate research findings and product impact

Why Menlo

Our culture is collaborative inclusive and fun! We have five core values : Stay Aligned Get It Done Customer Empathy Think Creatively and Help Each Other Out. We believe in open communication supporting new ideas and sharing a mutual mindset of what were aiming to achieve together. There are tremendous opportunities to take initiative implement new ideas and have a hand in building a legacy.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race sex color religion sexual orientation gender identity national origin protected veteran status or on the basis of disability .

TO ALL AGENCIES : Please no phone calls or emails to any employee of Menlo Security outside of the Talent organization. Menlo Securitys policy is to only accept resumes from agencies via Ashby (ATS). Agencies must have a valid services agreement executed and must have been assigned by the Talent team to a specific requisition. Any resume submitted outside of this process will be deemed the sole property of Menlo Security. In the event a candidate submitted outside of this policy is hired no fee or payment will be paid.

Required Experience :

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Key Skills

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Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1