Principal Dark Web Collection Analyst

Bazeta; Northern (KY); À distance; USD 152 000 - 229 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Incentive compensation

Equity

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401K

Résumé du poste

Recorded Future, Inc. seeks a Principal Dark Web Collection Analyst to lead strategic dark web intelligence operations and hands-on access to underground communities.

You will own collection decisions, build and manage personas, and translate findings into actionable intelligence for internal teams and clients. You will collaborate with product, engineering, sales, and research, developing access strategies, maintaining OPSEC, and advancing automated collection pipelines while navigating legal

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on dark web threat research with demonstrable collection outcomes.
• Proficiency in Russian at a professional working level.
• Strong analytical writing for technical and executive audiences.
• Experience presenting to customers or at webinars.
• Ability to develop collection strategies and maintain access across volatile sources.

Responsabilités

• Serve as the company-wide SME on dark web dynamics for product, engineering, sales, and analysts.
• Make and own strategic collection decisions for forums, markets, and channels.
• Identify and gain access to criminal forums, darknet marketplaces, and covert channels within policy.
• Develop and maintain collection personas and source documentation.
• Collaborate with engineering to turn research into automated collection pipelines.
• Monitor source changes and adapt collection strategies accordingly.
• Produce finished intelligence on threat actors and underground infrastructure.

Connaissances

Dark web threat research

OPSEC & legal compliance

Russian language proficiency

Analytical writing

Public speaking

Python scripting

Cross-functional collaboration

Outils

Python

Description du poste

# Principal Dark Web Collection AnalystUnited States3 hours agoID 1825544Price on request## DetailsEmployment type: Full-timeRemote: YesCompany: Recorded Future, Inc.Level: Director## DescriptionWith 1,000+ intelligence professionals serving over 1,900 clients worldwide, Recorded Future is the world’s most advanced, and largest, intelligence company! Recorded Future is expanding its dark web collection capability with a focus on underground community intelligence — criminal forums, illicit marketplaces, and covert messaging channels where threat actors recruit, collaborate, and transact. You will be Recorded Future's internal authority on the dark web ecosystem — the person other teams turn to when they need to understand how underground communities operate, what's worth collecting, and where not to invest. This means making real strategic decisions: which forums warrant access efforts, which intelligence areas to prioritize, and which sources don't merit the operational cost. You will own that judgment and defend it across the organization. At the same time, this is a hands-on role. You will personally navigate underground infrastructure, build and maintain access, create and manage personas, and extract intelligence directly. The expert and the operator are the same person here. What You'll Do: • Serve as the company-wide subject matter expert on dark web and underground community dynamics, advising product, engineering, sales, and analyst teams • Make and own strategic collection decisions: which forums, markets, and channels to pursue; which intelligence areas to prioritize; and where to explicitly not invest resources • Identify, evaluate, and gain access to criminal forums, darknet marketplaces, Telegram channels, and adjacent covert infrastructure within legal and policy boundaries • Develop and maintain collection strategies, personas, and source documentation to sustain access across a volatile source landscape • Partner with engineering to translate research tradecraft into automated collection pipelines • Monitor sources for operational changes — takedowns, migrations, rebrands — and continuously adapt • Produce finished intelligence on key threat actors, community dynamics, and emerging underground infrastructure: actor profiles, source assessments, and analytical summaries • Collaborate broadly across internal teams — product, PMM, sales, customer success, and research — as the go-to voice on underground community intelligence • Represent Recorded Future externally: writing customer-facing blogs, presenting at webinars, and contributing to public research on dark web tactics and trends What You'll Bring: • 5+ years of hands-on dark web threat research with demonstrable collection outcomes across forums, marketplaces, or covert channels • Deep, current expertise in the structure and dynamics of major criminal forums and darknet markets — how they operate, how access is governed, and how actors and communities evolve • Proven ability to operate within closed or invite-only communities while maintaining OPSEC and legal compliance • Russian language proficiency at a professional working level — essential for this role • Strong analytical writing skills — ability to produce concise, well-sourced intelligence products for both technical and executive audiences • Comfort operating externally: presenting to customers, hosting webinars, and writing public-facing content with authority Preferred Qualifications: • Additional language skills relevant to underground communities (Ukrainian, Romanian, Chinese, Portuguese, Arabic) • Background in cybercrime research, threat actor tracking, or law enforcement intelligence • Prior experience at a threat intelligence vendor, CSIRT, law enforcement, or intelligence agency • Basic scripting ability (Python) for data parsing and format conversion The base salary range for this full-time position is $152,000 - $228,500. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The salary displayed reflects the range for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by state, work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. This position may be eligible for incentive compensation, equity, and medical, dental, vision, life insurance and 401K. Your recruiter can share more about the specific details of the compensation and benefit package during the hiring process.