Senior Security Researcher Cloud & AI (Cortex Cloud)

Your Career

As a Senior Security Researcher on the Cortex Cloud research team, you’ll lead deep, hands-on security research across cloud and AI environments- from uncovering vulnerabilities and novel attack paths to building the protections that stop them.

Your impact doesn’t end with detections. This team is also responsible for driving product innovation: identifying gaps in how cloud environments are secured, finding new ways to close those gaps, and partnering with engineering, product and marketing to take those ideas from a POC to implementation. Whether it’s a new detection engine, risk signal, or protection method- your research directly shapes the product.

You'll research the AI attack surface in depth, and push the boundaries of what cloud and AI security can achieve. If you're looking for a role where research leads to real-world defense- and product innovation is part of your day job- this is the team.

Your Impact

• Research and uncover vulnerabilities and abuse paths in cloud services, with a strong focus on AI, identity, and data pipelines
• Collaborate with product and engineering to ship detections and logic based on your findings
• Research-driven impact - drive innovation from idea to execution: Identify emerging security gaps, build proof-of-concepts, and partner with engineering, product and marketing to translate research into actual product features and detection logic.
• Represent the team through public blogs, conferences and research collaborations with cloud vendorsPublish internal or external research and represent the team at industry events or blogs.
• Lead the discovery of novel attack vectors- e.g., cross-tenant access, NHI abuse, RAG poisoning, privilege escalation