Senior Security Researcher

The role

You will conduct research into vulnerability detection, remediation, and prioritization to enhance the asset intelligence platform. You will lead end-to-end research projects and collaborate with Product and Development teams to convert research into product features.

What you will do

• Lead end-to-end security research projects focusing on vulnerability detection, risk prioritization, and exposure management logic.
• Utilize Python, SQL, and AI/LLM tools to build data analysis pipelines, automate threat research, and prototype research tools.
• Research and define remediation strategies, compensating controls, and configuration-based mitigations beyond standard patching.
• Partner weekly with Product and Engineering teams to transform technical research into production-ready product capabilities.

Required qualifications

• 4+ years of professional experience in security research, vulnerability analysis, or penetration testing.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Python for scripting/automation and SQL for querying complex security data sets.
• Hands-on experience integrating AI/LLMs into technical workflows to accelerate data analysis, parsing, or research output.
• Practical understanding of security frameworks and metrics including CVSS, EPSS, and MITRE ATT&CK.

Nice to have

• Prior experience in B2B SaaS or enterprise cybersecurity product environments.
• Experience in exposure management, attack surface management (ASM), or enterprise risk prioritization.
• Experience creating custom prioritization and scoring algorithms combining vulnerability telemetry with asset criticality.
• Deep knowledge of non-patching mitigation strategies, including registry tweaks, network policy shifts, and configuration hardening.
• Proven track record of framing open-ended security problems into scalable software feature requirements.

Benefits

• competitive compensation and benefits
• growth opportunities
• community-building

About the company

Axonius transforms cyber asset intelligence into actionability. The integrated platform brings together data from every system in an organization’s IT infrastructure to optimize mission-critical risk, performance, and cost measures via actionable intelligence.