Security Research Engineer

The role

The Security Research Engineer will drive detection research, threat hunting, and AI-powered security automation. You will research data sources, build detections, investigate incidents, and engage with customers.

What you will do

• Develop AI-powered detection tooling
• Conduct security research by analyzing cloud, identity, and SaaS data sources
• Perform authorized attack simulations to validate detection coverage
• Hunt for threats across customer environments
• Investigate potential cases to refine detection logic
• Engage with customers to present analysis results and gather feedback
• Tune customer detections to reduce false positives
• Build investigation automation

Required qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on cybersecurity experience
• Hands-on experience in incident response including cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and identity providers (Okta, Entra ID)
• Strong knowledge of threat actor tactics, techniques, & procedures
• Demonstrated understanding uncovering threat actor activity in various environments
• Strong experience with log-based analysis
• Demonstrated ability to identify malicious activity across a variety of log sources
• Ability to translate security research into actionable detections or threat hunt investigations
• Strong communication skills
• Experience with detection engineering at scale

Nice to have

• Background working in a SOC environment or Managed Detection and Response
• Familiarity with a wide range of security tools (SIEM, EDR, SOAR)
• Customer-facing technical experience
• Experience with AI tools and models

Benefits

• Top-of-market equity component

About the company

Artemis is building AI-driven cybersecurity to help companies defend themselves. The company uses AI agents to detect, investigate, hunt, and respond to threats.