Applied Security Researcher
Core
Conducting frontier research on code, cloud, and AI security to enable contextual understanding and build functional prototypes for Wiz's security platform.
Role type
Senior Applied Security Researcher (AI & Cloud Security)
Builds
Production security features, functional prototypes, and novel agentic workflows for cloud and AI-native architectures.
Domain
Cloud Security, AI Security, Software Architecture
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Threat modeling, complex system architecture (low-level/distributed), independent project leadership, agentic workflow design, program analysis, static code analysis
Preferred skills
Cloud security research (AWS/GCP/Azure/Kubernetes), AI security risks, model benchmarking/fine-tuning, query languages (KQL/SQL), large-scale data mining
Technologies
AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, KQL, SQL
Responsibilities
Investigate code, cloud, and AI technologies to answer research questions; Design and build high-quality functional prototypes; Conduct technical research to model risks and attack vectors; Define and implement novel agentic workflows.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
