Malware Research Engineer: Automations & Detections

aikidosecurity; Oost-Vlaanderen; Sur place; EUR 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Top-tier pay and equity

Flexible working hours

Open and informal atmosphere

Strong values, low BS

Résumé du poste

Aikido Security is seeking a Malware Research Engineer to combine hands-on malware analysis with automation at scale. You will analyze samples, write detections, and build agents that triage and extract behavior for production-grade EDR solutions.

You’ll turn research into robust detections across files, processes, memory, and network activity, while collaborating with engineering to ship fast and improve agent quality.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience in malware analysis, threat research, or detection engineering.
• Experience with Binary Ninja or similar reverse-engineering tools.
• Experience creating and validating YARA, Sigma, or comparable detection rules.
• Strong programming and automation skills in a language suited to the problem.
• Understanding of executable formats, operating-system concepts, and common malware and attacker techniques.
• Familiarity with endpoint telemetry and its use in detection and investigation.
• Ability to break down a manual research workflow and automate it from first principles.
• Experience with AI agents or LLM-based workflows is useful, but a strong interest in experimenting with them is just as important.
• Comfortable working independently when the problem and solution are not yet fully defined.

Responsabilités

• Research and reverse engineer malware using Binary Ninja, dynamic analysis, and endpoint telemetry.
• Create, test, and maintain YARA, Sigma, and behavioral detection rules.
• Turn research findings into detections across files, processes, persistence, memory, identity, and network activity.
• Build agents that can triage samples, use analysis tools, extract behavior, propose detections, and validate their results.
• Build investigation workflows that correlate endpoint events, test hypotheses, and reconstruct what happened.
• Develop evals and feedback loops to measure and improve the quality of our agents and detections.
• Help define the architecture, research direction, and product capabilities of our EDR.
• Work closely with engineering to get new ideas into production quickly.

Connaissances

Malware analysis

Threat research

Detection engineering

Programming and automation

Reverse engineering

Endpoint telemetry

Automation from manual workflows

Independent work

Outils

Binary Ninja

Description du poste

Aikido Security is seeking a Malware Research Engineer to combine hands-on malware analysis with automation at scale. You will analyze samples, write detections, and build agents that triage and extract behavior for production-grade EDR solutions.

You’ll turn research into robust detections across files, processes, memory, and network activity, while collaborating with engineering to ship fast and improve agent quality.