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Detection Engineering Lead

Dropzone · Remote - US · Remote

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About Dropzone

AI agents that investigate every alert, hunt attackers, and respond to emerging threats at machine scale. Customer guided, software executed. Backed by Madrona.

About the role

We are a 100% remote company where you will work from your home with company-provided equipment to set you up for success. Semi-frequent travel to professional office settings and other events locally and nationally; some overnight travel expected.

What they're looking for

  • Reimagine how having unlimited detection engineering capacity could change Detection and Response teams and how future security practitioners interact with an AI detection engineer
  • Prototype, validate, and continuously improve an AI agent that programmatically generates detection content across diverse security environments
  • Experiment autonomous agentic loops between detection engineering and other D&R functions such as threat intelligence and threat hunting
  • Partner with engineering teams to encode expert detection knowledge into our product
  • Design scoring rubrics on AI generated detection content for SIEM, EDR, NDR, cloud, identity, and SaaS security platforms
  • Provide guidance on detection methodologies used by mature SOCs
More about this role

Dropzone’s mission is to scale cybersecurity beyond human limits, and augment every single human security engineer/analyst with an army of AI security specialists. Humans alone cannot sufficiently protect our digital future, and AI augmentation is the only way for defenders to reclaim the high ground. We are an award winning company disrupting the $200B+ cybersecurity market.

Powered by Gen AI advancements, our technology offloads repetitive day-to-day work and frees human analysts to focus on real threats and higher-value projects. We are venture-backed, and our team has a rare blend of deep experience across cybersecurity, AI/ML, and SaaS product development. Join us if you want to be on the ground floor of using Gen AI to transform cyber defense. Learn more at www.dropzone.ai .

About the role

We're looking for a highly experienced Senior / Principal Detection Engineer to help shape the future of AI-driven security operations. This is a senior-to-principal level role for an individual who combines deep detection engineering expertise with a passion for innovation, customer impact, and advancing the state of security operations.

As the Detection Engineering Lead, you will serve...

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