Threat Researcher

Abnormalsecurity

United States

Remote

USD 120,000 - 180,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

Abnormal Security is seeking a Threat Researcher to join our Threat Intelligence team. You will conduct original threat research into active campaigns, attacker behavior, and emerging email/identity attack techniques, and turn findings into actionable intelligence for various audiences.

You will synthesize inputs from multiple sources, tailor reports for practitioners, executives, and customers, and collaborate with Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing to align content with customer needs.

Qualifications

4+ years of threat intelligence or related cybersecurity work.
Ability to understand IOCs, TTPs, campaigns, and threat behavior.
Experience producing security content for diverse audiences.
Strong ability to synthesize technical data into clear assessments and narratives.
Ability to present complex intel to customers and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Lead complex threat intelligence investigations into campaigns, attacker behavior, TTPs, and emerging email/identity attack techniques.
Use Abnormal's platform and external sources to develop intelligence assessments.
Identify meaningful patterns and trends across threat activity.
Synthesize intelligence into defensible assessments and tailored recommendations.
Create a range of intelligence deliverables: threat briefs, analytical reports, customer content, webinars, and executive summaries.
Engage customers and prospects with intelligence briefings, webinars, and tailored content.
Collaborate with Threat Intelligence, Detection, Sales, Customer Success and Marketing; mentor P1/P2 analysts.
Leverage AI tools to accelerate research, while ensuring accuracy and sourcing quality.

Skills

Threat intelligence

SOC operations

Email/identity threats

Security writing

Intelligence synthesis

Customer-facing presentation

AI tool usage

Project management

Independent research

Tools

Threat intel platforms

AI tooling (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot)

Job description

About the Role

Abnormal AI is looking for a Threat Researcherto join our Threat Intelligence team.

This is an analyst role for someone who is equally interested in understanding threats and figuring out how to make intelligence useful.

You will conduct original research into active campaigns, attacker behavior, and emerging email and identity attack techniques. You will also draw on research and data produced by other parts of the Threat Intelligence organization. Your job is to connect those inputs, determine what is meaningful, and turn them into the right intelligence product for the audience and objective.

That might mean a concise threat brief for a security practitioner, a deeper analytical report, tailored intelligence content for Customer Success to use in a customer QBR, a briefing for a prospect, a webinar for a broader audience, or content supporting a high-priority sales pursuit.

The defining skill for this role is intelligence synthesis: combining technical research, data, threat context, and audience needs into a clear assessment and compelling narrative.

You will work closely with Threat Intelligence, Detection, Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing teams. You will also interact directly with customers and prospects, bringing intelligence to life through briefings, presentations, webinars, and tailored content.

Success in this role is not measured by how many documents you produce. It is measured by whether you can identify the important intelligence, explain what it means, and put it in a form that helps the audience understand and act on it.

What You Will Do

Analyze & Research

Independently scope and lead complex or ambiguous threat intelligence investigations into active campaigns, attacker behavior, TTPs, and emerging email and identity attack techniques. Determine appropriate research approaches, evaluate incomplete or conflicting evidence, and develop defensible intelligence assessments with limited direction.

Use Abnormal's platform, internal telemetry and data, threat intelligence sources, and external research to investigate threats and develop intelligence assessments.

Identify meaningful patterns, connections, and emerging trends across threat activity.

Develop a strong understanding of how Abnormal detects and responds to the threats you analyze.

Synthesize Intelligence

Independently synthesize complex and sometimes conflicting intelligence from disparate sources, determine the most consequential insights, and develop defensible assessments and recommendations tailored to the audience and decision at hand.

Determine what is most relevant to a particular audience, customer situation, or business objective.

Translate raw findings into insight, implications, recommendations, and a clear narrative.

Adapt the depth, framing, terminology, and format of intelligence based on the audience.

Connect technical threat activity to business risk and explain why it matters.

Create Intelligence Products

Produce a range of intelligence deliverables, including:

Threat briefs

Analytical reports

Intelligence content and narratives for customer QBRs

Customer and prospect briefings

Webinars and presentations

Marketing and outreach content

Executive-level intelligence summaries

Create both rapid-turnaround intelligence products and deeper analytical work.

Build reusable narratives, templates, and content structures that improve consistency and scale.

Maintain high standards for sourcing, analytical accuracy, clarity, and editorial quality.

Engage Customers & Prospects

Independently lead customer and prospect intelligence engagements, including complex or high-visibility threat briefings, webinars, and presentations. Adapt technical depth and narrative in real time, respond to challenging questions, and ensure the intelligence supports the audience's decisions.

Work with Sales and Customer Success to understand the context behind a customer or prospect request and tailor intelligence accordingly.

Respond to time-sensitive customer questions and high-priority pursuits with accurate, relevant, and well-sourced analysis.

Develop trusted relationships with customer-facing stakeholders and use their feedback to improve intelligence products.

Partner Across the Organization

Collaborate with Threat Intelligence and Detection teams to incorporate research and technical findings into customer-ready intelligence.

Serve as a technical resource and mentor to P1 and P2 analysts, strengthening analytical judgment, research methods, intelligence synthesis, and product quality through coaching, peer review, and knowledge sharing.

Partner with Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing to understand upcoming customer moments, pursuits, and content needs.

Provide targeted enablement and supporting materials that help GTM teams understand and use intelligence effectively.

Feed insights from customer and field interactions back to Threat Intelligence teams to inform research and detection priorities.

Work Smarter

Use AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, Copilot, and similar technologies to accelerate research, synthesis, drafting, tailoring, and editing.

Develop practical workflows and automation that reduce time spent on routine work while maintaining analytical rigor.

Apply appropriate human review and validation to ensure AI-assisted work is accurate, well-sourced, and analytically sound.

What We're Looking For

Must Have

4+ years of experience in threat intelligence, SOC operations, or a closely related cybersecurity discipline.

Working knowledge of email and identity attack techniques and the ability to understand and explain IOCs, TTPs, attack campaigns, and threat behavior.

Demonstrated experience conducting security research and producing written intelligence or security content for different audiences.

Strong ability to synthesize technical research and data from multiple sources into clear intelligence assessments, narratives, and recommendations.

Demonstrated analytical judgment in complex or ambiguous investigations, including the ability to evaluate incomplete or conflicting evidence, determine the most consequential findings, and develop defensible assessments and recommendations with limited direction.

Familiarity with threat intelligence platforms, intelligence-sharing communities, and threat hunting concepts.

Strong writing skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical subjects clearly and concisely.

Demonstrated ability to independently present complex technical intelligence to customers, executives, security practitioners, or other stakeholders, adapting communication to the audience and responding confidently to questions or challenges.