Applied Security Researcher

The role

This role is an Applied Security Researcher on Wiz's frontier research team. The work covers research from concept to product integration, threat modeling for AI-native and cloud-native systems, and building AI agents that analyze code and cloud infrastructure.

What you will do

• Drive continuous research from initial concept through PoC to product integration.
• Build threat models for AI-native and cloud-native systems: how attackers approach them, how enterprises defend them, and where the gaps are.
• Build AI agents that analyze code and/or cloud infrastructure to produce specific insights.
• Analyze and understand real-world systems from a security perspective - architecture, data flows, and source code.
• Partner across Product, Engineering, and Research to ship what you discover.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in security or security research.
• A strong threat-modeling mindset - deep understanding of both how attackers approach complex environments and how enterprises defend them
• Deep understanding of how complex software systems are built, so you can find where they're vulnerable (Low-level, Distributed, or Core System Engineering mindset)
• A foundation in program analysis - parsing, compilation and static code analysis — and comfort reasoning about code as data.
• Proven ability to define and implement AI agents, and to make their output reproducible.
• Proven ability to work independently, prioritize, and carry complex, multi-quarter projects from concept to working production grade software.

Nice to have

• Security research experience in modern cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, etc) and infrastructure-as-code.
• Familiarity with model benchmarking, evaluation, fine-tuning, and with grading agent output against ground truth.
• Query languages for security telemetry, graph databases, or large-scale data-mining and clustering experience.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, with a track record of shipping alongside cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, Research).

Benefits

• Freedom to think creatively, dream big, and use your full range of skills.

Before you apply

• Applicants must have the legal right to work in the country where the position is based.
• This role does not offer visa sponsorship.

About the company

Wiz is a fast-growing startup that helps teams secure cloud and AI applications by connecting code, cloud, and runtime into one shared context. It is now powered by Google and works with over 65% of the Fortune 100.