Malware Research and Review Team Leader

Written by the T&S Network from Alice's posting.

Leads a team of malware researchers at Alice, splitting time roughly evenly between managing people and hands-on malware research. The work covers detecting and documenting emerging malware trends and building automation for malware identification at scale. The posting does not name a specific product, market or surface.

• AI misuse and jailbreaks

What you'd do

• Coach and supervise malware researchers, including helping with hiring.
• Run brief, focused malware investigations on compressed deadlines.
• Detect and document emerging malware trends.
• Evaluate and improve team accuracy and performance.
• Pass expertise to teammates and work with other teams and departments.
• Keep improving how malware gets analyzed and reviewed.
• Develop automation for malware identification at scale.

What it asks for

• Management experience managing at least 2 employees for at least 2 years, including recruiting and training.
• At least 3 years of experience in malware research, reverse engineering, or penetration testing.
• In-depth SOC and incident response investigation experience.
• Application security experience.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming and tracing execution flow through code.
• Familiarity with Java, C/C++, JavaScript, and Python.
• Familiarity with static and dynamic analysis tools such as JADX, Frida, and network debuggers.

Terms in this role

Red teaming.

Testing a system, often an AI model, by deliberately trying to make it fail or misbehave, so problems are found and fixed first.

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