Head of Research
Core
Lead Guardio Labs to uncover cyber threats (phishing, scams, malvertising) and convert findings into production detections and model training signals.
Role type
Senior IC/Player-coach Head of Research (Cybersecurity) (via careerplan.io/jobs/57-000-BF-F63-head-of-research-at-guardio)
Builds
Production security detections, threat intelligence systems, and AI-driven hunting pipelines
Domain
Consumer cybersecurity, threat intelligence, offensive/defensive cyber
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Security research leadership, threat hunting, reverse engineering, browser internals/JavaScript, network/infrastructure analysis, email/telephony abuse analysis, AI/LLM research infrastructure, large-scale data querying (SQL/BigQuery), Python/JavaScript automation
Preferred skills
Elite intelligence unit background, responsible disclosure experience, conference speaking, publication history
Technologies
Python, JavaScript, BigQuery, Chrome DevTools, Burp, VirusTotal, URLScan
Responsibilities
Build and grow the research team, set the research agenda, hunt threats end-to-end across web/email/SMS/voice, drive innovation to ship protections, own the threat knowledgebase, drive publications and responsible disclosure
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with leadership
