Associate Cyber Threat Researcher

Location: Remote
Compensation: Salary
Reviewed: Thu, May 21, 2026
This job expires in: 30 days

Job Summary

Engaging in proactive threat hunts, the full-time Associate Cyber Threat Researcher will identify, investigate, and respond to cyber threats while creating intelligence-based threat detections in a remote environment.

Key responsibilities:
  • Create and enhance detection rules to alert SOC analysts of intrusions against customer networks
  • Support hypothesis-driven threat hunting efforts using security data and intelligence
  • Research and track adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) and contribute to threat intelligence reports
Required qualifications:
  • U.S. citizenship is required
  • 1-3 years of experience in cybersecurity, with at least 1 year focused on threat hunting or detection engineering
  • Experience building custom behavior-based and/or threshold-based detections in customer environments
  • Working understanding of the MITRE ATT&CK framework
  • Proficiency with SIEMs, EDR/XDR platforms, and log analysis tools

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