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’re hiring a Head of Security Research to lead a team of expert security engineers and practitioners to reimagine key cyber defense functions like threat intelligence, hunting, detection engineering, and alert investigation in the Agentic AI era.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years in detection and response with strong experience in security engineering, threat hunting, SOC, or incident response
- 3+ years experience managing a team of security engineers, threat hunters, SOC analysts, etc
- Background in building and running SOC functions, detection programs, or security research teams
- Proven experience leading high-performing technical teams while staying hands-on
- Able to mentor across multiple domains (detections, intel, IR) without being siloed
- Opinionated about what world-class looks like in threat intelligence, hunting, detection engineering, SOC, and IR
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 .
We’re hiring a Head of Security Research to lead a team of expert security engineers and practitioners to reimagine key cyber defense functions like threat intelligence, hunting, detection engineering, and alert investigation in the Agentic AI era.
This is a player/coach management role for someone who still loves being hands-on, writing detections, responding to latest CVEs, reviewing noisy alerts, and...
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