Malware Research Engineer

Malwarebytes

About The Position

Malwarebytes/ThreatDown is looking for.. A dynamic Malware/Threat Research Engineer to join our team! What You Will Do: Process daily threat-feeds related to newly created malware and write detection rules for various technologies. Investigate and resolve customer-related inquiries related to protection, performance, and usability. Conduct research and threat hunting for the latest cybersecurity threats affecting our customers, including static and dynamic analysis of PE and other filetypes. Provide feedback on new projects and tools related to your daily work, and suggest ideas on how to handle new threat types. Support content creation efforts incl. threat descriptions, blogs, and presentations. Investigate phishing and other web-based threats, and develop internal streams to collect new data. Be a leader in the web protection space. Utilize AI tools including LLM and machine learning to enhance and automate aspects of your workflow. Respond to internal and external inquiries via a ticket management system, working on a 24/7/365 rotation to ensure full coverage.

Requirements

Highly developed sense of integrity and demonstrated passion for excellence with respect to treating and caring for customers.
Creative thinking and problem solving, with a positive and motivated approach.
Ability to setup and conduct research/analysis in an emulated/virtual environment, such as VMWare or Hyper-V.
Ability to research & classify malicious domains and IPs.
Experience with and understanding of malware research tools involved in static & dynamic analysis and core aspects of a threat research & response team.
Basic understanding and experience using various operating systems, incl. Windows, Linux, Mac, and Android.
Ability and passion to stay up to date with the latest malware threats and collaborate with other researchers, coordinators, as well as developers.
Experience working with various online repositories for malicious files and web protection data.

Responsibilities

Process daily threat-feeds related to newly created malware and write detection rules for various technologies.
Investigate and resolve customer-related inquiries related to protection, performance, and usability.
Conduct research and threat hunting for the latest cybersecurity threats affecting our customers, including static and dynamic analysis of PE and other filetypes.
Provide feedback on new projects and tools related to your daily work, and suggest ideas on how to handle new threat types.
Support content creation efforts incl. threat descriptions, blogs, and presentations.
Investigate phishing and other web-based threats, and develop internal streams to collect new data. Be a leader in the web protection space.
Utilize AI tools including LLM and machine learning to enhance and automate aspects of your workflow.
Respond to internal and external inquiries via a ticket management system, working on a 24/7/365 rotation to ensure full coverage.