Remote Dark Web Intelligence Lead

Recorded Future, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 152,000 - 229,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K

Equity

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Remote-friendly

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is expanding its dark web collection capability and seeks an experienced researcher to own strategic decisions and directly operate within underground communities. You will navigate criminal forums, darknet marketplaces, and covert channels within legal boundaries, translating research into automated pipelines and producing finished intelligence for diverse teams.

The role requires 5+ years of hands-on dark web threat research, professional Russian language, and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on dark web threat research with demonstrable collection outcomes.
• Deep, current expertise in the structure and dynamics of major criminal forums and darknet markets.
• Proven ability to operate within closed or invite-only communities while maintaining OPSEC and legal compliance.
• Russian language proficiency at a professional working level.
• Strong analytical writing skills — concise, well-sourced intelligence for technical and executive audiences.
• Comfort presenting to customers, hosting webinars, and writing public-facing content with authority.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the company-wide SME 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 the company externally: writing customer-facing blogs, presenting at webinars, and contributing to public research on dark web tactics and trends.

Skills

Dark web threat research

Russian language

Analytical writing

Public speaking

Tools

Python

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is expanding its dark web collection capability and seeks an experienced researcher to own strategic decisions and directly operate within underground communities. You will navigate criminal forums, darknet marketplaces, and covert channels within legal boundaries, translating research into automated pipelines and producing finished intelligence for diverse teams.

The role requires 5+ years of hands-on dark web threat research, professional Russian language, and