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Principal Researcher

Palo Alto Networks

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Jul 4, 2025
Santa Clara, CA, USA
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Combat the ever-evolving landscape of digital threats by tracking malware and threat trends, designing and building innovative detection mechanisms, and leading the development of machine learning models to protect systems and customers.

Requirements

  • 6+ years of experience in a research or engineering role, such as system security, threat research, malware/code analysis or vulnerability research
  • Proven experience in the complete software development lifecycle, with proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g., Python, Go, C++)
  • Demonstrated experience in leading machine learning projects, including a strong understanding of model development, data preprocessing, and deployment
  • Solid understanding of the threat landscape, including common attack vectors, malware techniques, and threat actor tactics is a plus

Responsibilities

  • Proactively track and research emerging threat actors, malware families, and attack techniques.
  • Analyze threat data to identify trends and patterns, and translate this intelligence into actionable detection strategies
  • Find and develop novel methods for detecting threats across our environment. This includes static and dynamic analysis, behavioral monitoring, and heuristic-based detection
  • Participate in and lead the complete software development lifecycle for our security solutions. This includes gathering requirements, architecting, designing, developing, testing, deploying, and providing operational support for the tools and systems you build
  • Lead end-to-end machine learning projects for threat detection. This encompasses defining the model architecture, sourcing and preparing data, building and managing training pipelines, deploying models into production, and monitoring their performance
  • Disseminate research findings and contribute to the security community by publishing results in technical blogs, industry white papers, and academic papers

Other

  • MS/PhD degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience or equivalent military experience required
  • A proven track of top tier publications in cybersecurity related areas is a big plus