Senior Security Researcher: Offensive Detection & Tooling

reach management consultant pvt ltd; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Pet insurance

Identity theft protection

Legal services

Unlimited PTO

Sick time

Job summary

Reach Security is seeking a Senior Staff Security Researcher to translate research into product capabilities and expand Reach’s integration and control library, collaborating closely with Engineering to enhance security tooling.

The role emphasizes prioritizing new domains and remediation mechanisms, building reproducible research environments, and replicating attacker behavior to refine detection and prevention strategies. Equity and comprehensive benefits accompany a competitive package.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in information security and/or engineering
• 5+ years in offensive security, security research, red teaming, or vulnerability research
• Experience discovering, analyzing, or detecting sophisticated real-world attacks
• Strong software engineering skills to rapidly build research tooling and PoCs
• Deep curiosity and habit of experimenting with new AI systems
• Exceptional technical writing and communication skills

Responsibilities

• Work closely with Engineering to translate research into product capabilities, continually expanding Reach’s integration and control library.
• Help prioritize new domain, product and control coverage and remediation mechanisms.
• Build reproducible research environments, tooling and sandboxes.
• Replicate malicious behavior to design detection and prevention strategies and collect evidence of attempted/detected/blocked attacks.

Skills

Experience in information security

Offensive security

Attack analysis

Software engineering skills

AI experimentation

Technical writing

Job description

Reach Security is seeking a Senior Staff Security Researcher to translate research into product capabilities and expand Reach’s integration and control library, collaborating closely with Engineering to enhance security tooling.

The role emphasizes prioritizing new domains and remediation mechanisms, building reproducible research environments, and replicating attacker behavior to refine detection and prevention strategies. Equity and comprehensive benefits accompany a competitive package.