Threat Research Analyst (Contract)

As a Threat Research Analyst (Contract) at Material Security, you will be contributing directly to the product by improving the capability to detect email-based threats. Your role is to leverage your analytical skills to implement detections for email-based threats or newly-emerging campaigns. Please note this is an hourly-based, contract role.

Responsibilities

• Fine-tune existing or build new detections to correctly classify email-based threats

• Identify sensitive information, signals, and features that are useful for training message classification systems

What We're Looking For

• Technical Maturity: Ideal candidates have experience detecting, classifying, and understanding the source of email-based threats. Additionally, candidates should have some experience using custom DSLs (e.g. Lucene, SPL, KQL, ES, etc), writing Regular Expressions, and be familiar with basic Git development workflows.

• Strong Communication: The ideal candidate possesses outstanding technical and non-technical written and verbal communication 

• Attitude & Ambition: The best candidates are smart, hard-working, competitive, and not afraid to fail. They are team first but willing to take the lead with minimal guidance and supervision.

Material Security is a remote-first workplace with an office in San Francisco, California.

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Compensation at Material Security is determined by a range of factors, including but not limited to the individual’s particular combination of knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience. The projected compensation range for this position is $50/hour.