Senior Security Researcher

Senior Security Researcher | £90–100k |

Primarily Remote - 1 day a month in London

We’re working with a high-growth cybersecurity product business looking to hire a Senior Security Researcher to join a specialist research team focused on cutting-edge threats and defensive capabilities.

This is a deeply technical role, ideal for someone who enjoys getting into the detail across malware, exploitation, and security research, while helping shape how products defend against real-world attacks.

It's not a typical blue team or red team role, it's a research-heavy position where you'll investigate real-world threats, build PoCs, and publish findings. They want someone who can operate independently, think like an attacker, but ultimately strengthen defensive capability

The role:

• Conduct deep-dive security research across threats, malware and attack techniques
• Perform static and dynamic analysis, reverse engineering, and PoC development
• Explore vulnerabilities, test exploitability, and design defensive solutions
• Work across research, engineering and product teams as a technical SME
• Produce high-quality technical write-ups, reports and whitepapers
• Present findings internally and externally (incl. conferences where relevant)
• Contribute to AI/agentic approaches to security research and analysis

What they’re looking for:

• Strong background in security research, malware analysis, or offensive security
• Hands-on experience with static and dynamic analysis tooling
• Solid coding ability (Python, C# or C++)
• Ability to take a problem from research → PoC → solution
• Comfortable working independently and owning research projects
• Strong communication skills — able to explain complex findings clearly

Nice to have:

• Reverse engineering experience
• Red team / pen testing background
• Exposure to threat intelligence or threat hunting
• Experience with AI tooling in security research
• Industry certifications (CREST, OSCP, GIAC etc.)

Why join?

• Highly technical, research-led environment
• Real-world impact on product security and threat defence
• Backed for growth and scaling
• £90–100k + package
• Hybrid working with flexibility

If you’re interested, drop me a message or apply directly — happy to share more detail.