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Security Research Engineer

Manchester, Greater Manchester💼 Full-time💰 $91,000–$106,000🗓 2026-03-18 → 2026-08-07

Core

Security Research Engineer specializing in SaaS and AI platform security, identifying risks and building defensive strategies.

Role type

Senior IC Security Research Engineer

Builds

High-impact product features and novel detection/mitigation approaches for SaaS and AI platforms

Domain

Cybersecurity, SaaS security, AI platform security

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

SaaS platform analysis, attacker mindset, data pipeline engineering, Python/Go, SQL, log processing, anomaly detection, AI agent utilization

Preferred skills

Core SaaS platform expertise (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Workday), identity systems knowledge (Okta, Azure AD/Entra)

Technologies

dbt, dagster, clickhouse, Python, Go, SQL

Responsibilities

Gain in-depth understanding of major SaaS/AI platforms to identify critical security insights; Explore and prototype solutions to integrate data across SaaS and AI platforms; Identify and respond to new attacker techniques to build novel detection or mitigation approaches; Leverage AI to turbo-charge research into SaaS and AI platform security

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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