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Dropzone AI

AI SOC Analysts that never sleep. So you can.

Head of Security Research

Security EngineerSecurity EngineerFull TimeRemoteLeadTeam 11-50Since 2023H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

68 days ago

Salary

$220K - $255K / year

Seniority

Lead

Bachelor Degree8 yrs expEnglish

Job Description

Head of Security Research

Dropzone AI

• Lead & Build a High-Impact Security Engineering and Research Team • Build a team of elite security engineers and world-class domain experts across Detection and Response, including alert investigation, threat hunting, detection engineering, and threat intelligence • Act as a player/coach, setting strategic research and engineering directions while staying deeply involved in technical work • Establish a culture of high-quality research, rapid iteration, and operator-first thinking • Drive Product Effectiveness • Build and refine measurement and evaluation frameworks to ensure the analysis our agents produced is high quality and mirrors expert human outputs • Owns the process of encoding expert human intuitions and techniques into our agentic system • Work closely with rest of engineering to continuously improve the efficacy of our agents in real world deployments • Reimagine Detection and Response with agents • Prototype and test new ideas where unlimited analytical capacity can fundamentally change cyber defense • Serve as a key voice in shaping Dropzone’s product roadmap based on real-world operation experience • Pressure-test assumptions about how AI should be applied in security operations • Help define what “autonomous defense system” actually looks like in practice and be an industry thought leader around it

Job Requirements

  • 8+ years in detection and response with strong experience in security engineering, threat hunting, SOC, or incident response
  • 3+ years experience managing a team of security engineers, threat hunters, SOC analysts, etc
  • Background in building and running SOC functions, detection programs, or security research teams
  • Proven experience leading high-performing technical teams while staying hands-on
  • Able to mentor across multiple domains (detections, intel, IR) without being siloed
  • Opinionated about what world-class looks like in threat intelligence, hunting, detection engineering, SOC, and IR
  • Able to collaborate closely with engineering and product teams
  • Early-stage startup mindset. You thrive on ambiguity and move with lightspeed execution.

Benefits

  • company paid health insurance
  • 401K Plan with employer match
  • Self-Managed PTO
  • parental leave
  • more

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