Senior Threat and Attack Research Engineer

Anduril Anduril · Defense · CT · Remote · Corporate Technology : Information Security : Offensive Security

This role focuses on threat and attack research within a defense technology company, involving monitoring, analyzing, and mitigating cyber threats targeting products and infrastructure. It requires strong engineering skills for developing threat actor tracking systems and enhancing tooling, with collaboration across security and offensive teams. The role emphasizes analyzing complex threat actor campaigns and developing countermeasures.

What you'd actually do

  1. Monitor and analyze sophisticated cyber threats targeting Anduril's products, infrastructure, and personnel.
  2. Research, mitigate, and anticipate emerging technical trends in the threat landscape.
  3. Collaborate closely with the detection and response team to provide timely and actionable intelligence to support ongoing investigations.
  4. Engage cross functionally with the offensive security team on product and infrastructure red team engagements.
  5. Enhance tooling for threat actor tracking and intelligence data integration.

Skills

Required

  • Analyzing complex threat actor campaigns
  • supply chain and infrastructure analysis
  • developing long term countermeasures
  • Python
  • Rust
  • Golang
  • Swift
  • prioritize and execute tasks independently
  • strong communication skills

Nice to have

  • nation-state, sophisticated criminal, or supply chain threats
  • YARA
  • Snort
  • production code for threat intelligence tools
  • large scale data analysis
  • security and threat intel community connections
  • Vertex Synapse

What the JD emphasized

  • advanced threat actor tracking
  • emerging technical trends
  • threat actor tracking
  • production code for threat intelligence tools