Senior Threat Intelligence Researcher

Why Join Us?

Check Point Research (CPR) is looking for a Threat Researcher to join its Threat Intelligence Analysis (TIA) team. The team is responsible of discovering, analyzing and tracking advanced threat actors and campaigns, with a strong focus on high-end cybercrime and state-sponsored activities. You will join a team of motivated, independent & highly technical individuals and contribute the effort to protect Check Point customers and empower the Check Point brand.

Key Responsibilities

• Identify, understand and monitor advanced campaigns using publicly available sources as well as internal telemetry.

• Analyze malware and other hacking tools utilized by threat actors in active campaigns and intrusions.

• Create technical research content for public and private intelligence reports.

• Help build protections and detections based on deep understanding of advanced threat actors’ Tactics Techniques and Procedures (TTPs).

• Collaborate with other security teams to assist threat intelligence and research tasks.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as a threat researcher, incident responder, malware analyst, detection engineer or other relevant roles.

• Practical experience in tracking state-sponsored or advanced financially motivated actors – including malware, infrastructure and TTPs.

• Profound knowledge and understanding of malware and common attacking techniques.

• Hands-on experience in automating and optimizing hunting and enrichment processes using code (preferably Python).

• Familiarity with query languages and data exploration tools.

• Ability to translate technical findings into actionable detection and prevention signatures.

• Experience in writing technical blog posts and technical analysis reports.

• Experience in public speaking and presentation of research in cyber security conferences.

• Fluent English.