Threat-Focused Malware Research Engineer

Malwarebytes; Bastia Umbra; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Employee referral program

Job summary

ThreatDown in Perugia, Italy, is seeking a Malware Research Engineer to defend against evolving cyber threats. You will write detection signatures and contribute to protection technologies, working on threat research and collaboration with other researchers.

On-site availability is strongly preferred. You will analyze malware in emulated environments, research malicious domains and IPs, and help protect customers worldwide with high‑efficacy protections.

Qualifications

• Strong integrity and customer focus.
• Creative thinking and problem solving in security.
• Experience with malware research tools for static and dynamic analysis.

Responsibilities

• Process threat feeds and write detection rules for various technologies.
• Investigate and resolve customer protection inquiries.
• Conduct threat research and hunting for latest threats affecting customers.
• Provide feedback on new projects and tools being developed.
• Support content creation of threat descriptions, blogs, and presentations.

Skills

Integrity

Creative thinking

Problem solving

Threat research

Malware analysis

Windows

Linux

MacOS

Android

VMware

Hyper-V

Tools

Dynamic analysis tools

Static analysis tools

Job description

ThreatDown in Perugia, Italy, is seeking a Malware Research Engineer to defend against evolving cyber threats. You will write detection signatures and contribute to protection technologies, working on threat research and collaboration with other researchers.

On-site availability is strongly preferred. You will analyze malware in emulated environments, research malicious domains and IPs, and help protect customers worldwide with high‑efficacy protections.