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Researcher Web Security, Detection

New York, NY💼 Full-time💰 $150,000–$150,000🗓 2026-09-18 → 2026-09-25

Core

Research web security adversaries, reverse-engineer bot tools and fraud kits, and develop automated detection systems to protect the Internet.

Role type

Researcher, Web Security & Detection

Builds

Automated detection systems, heuristics, signatures, and tooling for identifying malicious activity at scale.

Domain

Cybersecurity, Web Security, Bot Mitigation

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Reverse engineering, adversarial mindset, bot and automation tooling knowledge, HTTP/TLS/browser internals, fingerprinting, CAPTCHA evasion techniques, Python/JavaScript scripting, heuristic development

Preferred skills

Experience with fraud kits, marketplaces, and emerging bot techniques, ability to design stealthy mitigations

Technologies

Python, JavaScript, HTTP, TLS, CAPTCHAs

Responsibilities

Reverse-engineer bot tools and automation frameworks to understand adversary evolution; probe internal detections to close gaps; track the bot/fraud ecosystem and convert intelligence into detection signals; develop heuristics and signatures with Data Scientists; design mitigations that neutralize attackers without burning signals; automate manual analyst work into scalable detection.

Seniority

Mid-Senior, hands-on IC

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