
Senior Staff Security Researcher
Required skills
- offensive security
- security research
- detection engineering
- red teaming
- vulnerability research
- sophisticated real-world attacks
- software engineering
- research tooling
- proof-of-concepts
- AI systems
Nice to have
- integration library
- control library
- remediation mechanisms
Role summary
Reach Security is seeking a Senior Staff Security Researcher to translate research into product capabilities, expand their integration and control library, and prioritize new coverage. The role involves building research environments and tooling, replicating malicious behavior to design defenses, and experimenting with AI systems. Requires strong software engineering skills, deep curiosity, and exceptional technical writing and communication abilities. The position offers a competitive salary, equity, and comprehensive benefits.
About Reach Security:
Reach www.reach.security integrates with your existing security tools to identify blind spots across your defenses, prioritize fixes, automatically remediate misconfigurations, and continuously validate that your security posture remains strong
About the Role:
Reach Security seeking a skilled Senior Staff Security Researcher who will Work closely with Engineering to translate research into product capabilities, continually expanding Reach’s integration and control library. Help prioritize new domain, product and control coverage and remediation mechanisms.
In this role, you will:
Work closely with Engineering to translate research into product capabilities, continually expanding Reach’s integration and control library.
Help prioritize new domain, product and control coverage and remediation mechanisms.
Build reproducible research environments, tooling and sandboxes.
Replicate malicious behavior to design detection and prevention strategies and collect evidence of attempted/detected/blocked attacks.
Requirements and skills
10 + years of experience in Information Security and or Engineering
5+ years of experience in offensive security, security research, detection engineering, red teaming, or vulnerability research.
Experience discovering, analyzing, or detecting sophisticated real-world attacks.
Strong software engineering skills with the ability to rapidly build research tooling and proof-of-concepts.
Deep curiosity and a habit of experimenting with new AI systems as they emerge.
Exceptional technical writing and communication skills.
Working at Reach Security:
Competitive salary, and equity package
Comprehensive benefits package including:
Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including plan options with company-paid employee coverage
FSA, HSA, and 401(k) plans
Company paid life insurance and disability coverage, along with buy up options
Voluntary benefits including pet insurance, identify theft coverage, and legal services
Unlimited PTO and sick time
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