Tech Lead - Malware and Vulnerability Research (AI)

Location: Ramat Gan, Israel; full-time, onsite.

Company

Trust, safety, and security company providing AI lifecycle security, model evaluations, red-teaming, runtime guardrails, and drift detection for model labs, enterprises, and user-generated content platforms.

What you will do

• Lead and manage Domain Experts across vulnerability research and reverse engineering, Windows malware research, Linux/MacOS malware research, and Android/iOS security research.
• Set priorities, manage workload and performance, route incoming annotation rows, and rebalance freelancer capacity as volume changes.
• Track agreement and disagreement rates, QA findings, throughput, and other quality metrics, reporting to the Group Manager.
• Resolve escalated edge cases and prompts spanning multiple security domains, collaborating with the other Tech Lead when needed.
• Maintain consistent annotation guidelines, propose updates, and annotate or review directly to unblock the team.

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of proven, hands-on experience in reverse engineering, malware research, or vulnerability research, with deep expertise in at least one area.
• Working knowledge across all team domains to assess and coach Domain Experts.
• Working knowledge of reverse engineering, malware research, and vulnerability research, including malware behavior, binary analysis, and exploit development.
• At least 2 years of experience leading or mentoring technical specialists as a team lead, tech lead, or senior reviewer.
• Experience with QA sampling, calibration sessions, and quality metrics.
• Strong analytical judgment to infer a user's underlying goal from a short prompt and distinguish defensive, educational, and research use from attack preparation.
• Clear written and verbal communication in English.

Nice to have

• GIAC GREM, OSED, or OSCP certification.
• Online achievements, write-ups, or contributions on HackTheBox, Pwn2Own, TryHackMe, Bug Bounty programs, or published security research.

Culture & Benefits

• Work focused on trust, safety, cybersecurity, and securing AI technologies.
• Products support frontier model labs, enterprises, and user-generated content platforms.
• Scope includes protecting communicative technologies used by more than 3 billion users.