Lead Security Researcher - AI Threat Intelligence

Cato Networks is the converged network and security cloud for the AI era.

As AI reshapes cybersecurity, enterprises face a dual challenge: unlocking AI’s potential while defending against AI-driven attacks. Cato addresses both through a unified, cloud-native platform, providing the visibility and context to prioritize risks and stop threats in real time across users, applications, data, and AI agents.

Join us as we scale: take on ambitious technological challenges and shape the next generation of enterprise security at a company trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide.

• Lead threat intelligence research focused on AI-related threats, threat actors, attack techniques, and emerging cybersecurity trends
• Analyze internal and external security data to identify attack patterns, campaigns, and actionable intelligence
• Explore large-scale datasets using SQL and other data analysis methods to generate research insights
• Build tools, workflows, and agentic systems to automate research, investigation, and intelligence production
• Research how attackers use AI and how AI can improve threat detection, investigation, and response
• Publish high-quality research, including blogs, reports, threat intelligence summaries, and customer-facing insights
• Present research at cybersecurity conferences, webinars, company events, and customer-facing sessions
• Collaborate with product, data, engineering, and research teams to improve detections and product intelligence
• Independently lead research initiatives from idea and data exploration to publication and presentation.
• Travel internationally for company events and cybersecurity conferences at least six times per year.

• At least 5 years of hands-on experience in cybersecurity, threat intelligence, security research, or security analysis
• Strong understanding of the cybersecurity threat landscape, including threat actors, malware, phishing, C&C, exploitation, cloud threats, and attacker behavior
• Proven experience in threat intelligence research, including IOCs, TTPs, MITRE ATT&CK, campaign tracking, and threat actor profiling
• Strong data exploration skills, with practical experience using SQL to analyze large-scale security datasets
• Experience using AI tools, AI coding assistants, and agentic workflows for research, automation, and data analysis
• Ability to build scripts, internal tools, or agentic systems to support threat research and intelligence workflows
• Strong technical writing skills, with experience publishing blogs, reports, whitepapers, or public research
• Strong presentation skills, with the ability to represent the company at conferences and external events
• Self-learner with high curiosity, strong ownership, and the ability to manage complex research independently
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including product, engineering, and data teams
• Fluent English with excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Willingness to travel abroad for conferences, customer events, and company events at least six times per year

• Experience researching AI threats, LLM abuse, AI-assisted attacks, or AI-powered detection
• Experience building agentic systems, automation frameworks, or AI-based research workflows
• Background in engineering, backend systems, data infrastructure, or security platform development
• Experience with data warehouses, BI tools, notebooks, or large-scale telemetry analysis
• Experience with XDR, MDR, SIEM, EDR, NDR, SASE, or cloud security products