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Principal Threat Research Lead

India, Telangana, Hyderabad💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-25 → 2026-09-27

Core

Lead advanced threat research, AI-driven detection systems, and intelligence-to-detection pipelines across multi-cloud environments to protect customers from emerging threats.

Role type

Principal Threat Research Lead (hands-on IC with strategy)

Builds

AI/ML-driven detection systems, agentic/LLM-powered investigation pipelines, and scalable production-grade detections

Domain

Cybersecurity, Threat Intelligence, AI/ML for Security, Multi-cloud

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Threat intelligence, AI/ML for security, advanced analytics, multi-cloud architecture, data engineering (KQL, Python), adversary emulation, malware analysis, reverse engineering, graph-based campaign analysis, model evaluation, feature engineering

Preferred skills

Azure cloud expertise, RAG over intel, LLM guardrails, prompt-injection defense, detection-as-code, cross-tenant signal correlation

Technologies

KQL, Python, ADX, LLMs, RAG

Responsibilities

Set technical vision for threat research and detection systems; architect and evaluate AI/ML detection pipelines; operationalize intelligence-to-detection workflows; author and ship high-fidelity detections and hunts; drive cross-tenant signal correlation and campaign analysis; mentor senior researchers and engineers; influence industry strategy through thought leadership

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with mentorship and strategy

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