Associate Threat Researcher

At SAFE Security, our mission is bold and ambitious: We Will Build CyberAGI — a super-specialized system of intelligence that autonomously predicts, detects, and remediates threats. This isn’t just a vision—it’s the future we’re building every day, with the best minds in AI, cybersecurity, and risk. At SAFE, we empower individuals and teams with the freedom and responsibility to align their goals, ensuring we all move towards this goal together.

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Role Overview:
We are hiring an Associate Threat Researcher to support and scale our Threat Research operations. This role focuses on Threat Intelligence Analysis, Threat Actor Monitoring, Security Incident Research, and AI-driven CTI workflow automation.

Core Responsibilities::
• Analyze, enrich, and normalize Threat Intelligence feeds from multiple sources
• Ingest enriched Incidents and Events into the Threat Intelligence Exchange platform
• Monitor and enrich security incidents, including confirmed and unconfirmed events
• Track Threat Actors, campaigns, TTPs, targeting, and attack outcomes
• Map attacker behaviour and techniques to MITRE ATT&CK and SAFE / FAIR-CAM control libraries
• Research historic and emerging security incidents to identify attacker behaviour and trends
• Monitor vulnerability feeds for new and evolving attacks
• Contribute to the creation and improvement of analysis playbooks, workflows, and process documentation
• Automate threat research workflows across ingestion, enrichment, deduplication, and analysis
• Leverage LLMs and SLMs to build automation for threat intelligence enrichment and operational research tasks
• Collaborate closely with the Threat Research and Program Management teams

Essential Skills, Experience & Qualifications::
• B.Tech / B.E. / BCA / M.Tech in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related fields
• 1–2 years of hands-on experience in Threat Intelligence, Threat Hunting or IR-adjacent roles
• Experience using Threat Intelligence Exchange platforms
• Familiarity with monitoring Threat Actors, campaigns, and hacker chatter
• Working knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, CVE / NVD and CWE
• Ability to work with noisy, unstructured data and correlate signals across sources
• Basic scripting or automation experience using Python, Shell, or JavaScript
• Hands-on experience using LLMs and/or SLMs for automation, data extraction, classification, or enrichment workflows
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
• Strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills

If you’re passionate about cyber risk, thrive in a fast-paced environment, and want to be part of a team that’s redefining security—we want to hear from you! 🚀