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What you will do:
- Lead the Sysdig Threat Research Team, setting the research agenda, detection roadmap, and budget.
- Make AI security research the center of gravity, covering model/agent abuse, prompt-layer attacks, and AI supply chain.
- Own the detection content shipped to customers and the Falco community, with adversarial validation and quality metrics.
What you will bring with you:
- 10+ years in security research or detection engineering, with 4+ years leading researchers and owning an agenda.
- Original AI security research published or shipped, plus hands-on skills in Linux, containers, Kubernetes, and cloud internals.
- Public body of work: CVEs, conference talks, open-source tools, and experience with capable adversaries.
What we look for:
- Built a research capability from scratch at a company where you defined most of it.
- Experience with APT actors, open-source stewardship, and AI security frameworks like MITRE ATLAS.
- Research that is well-received by mainstream press, CERTs, or defenders.
Sysdig
Sysdig is a cloud security company that created Falco, the open standard for cloud threat detection, trusted by over 60% of the Fortune 500. With a culture recognized as a Best Place to Work and one of Deloitte's fastest-growing companies for 5 years, they emphasize diversity and open dialogue.