Company: Culminate Inc.

Location: Mountain View/California, Remote

Job Title: Security Research Engineer

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About Culminate

Culminate disrupts the 1 trillion dollar security operation and manage service provider market by using recent advancements in AI to convert human cybersecurity expertise and operational insights into automated solutions, offering critical reinforcements to overstretched cyber defense personnel.

Founded by AI and security experts from Google Deepmind, Amazon, Zscaler, Cisco, Lacework, Culminate is well funded and backed by top-tier VCs. Culminate is on a mission to provide the best AI workforce for every security teams. It enables enterprises to 10-100X their security operation teams by giving them the best of breed AI SOC analysts which imitates expert human SOC analysts and auto-investigate all alerts within minutes.

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Position Overview

Culminate is seeking ambitious and well-rounded security professionals to solve the challenges that the industry was never able to solve since the beginning of the internet. As a Security Research Engineer at Culminate, you’ll work with product team to define roadmap and work with AI and software engineering team to ensure the product produces the industry's best investigations.

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Key Responsibilities

• Drive security path finding
  • Believe the best defense comes from the best attack knowledge and you are able to carry out attack and investigation end to end
  • Work with product management to define the roadmap based on the threat landscape relevant to the customer and the customer's daily investigation challenges
  • Extreme familiarity with the threat landscape and able to keep up with the latest threat
  • Prototype attacks and investigations including clearly communicate the attack procedures and investigation steps
  • Work with AI team to automate the best investigation process to protect our customers
• Own efficacy improvement
  • Be an expert user of our own product
  • Proactively uncover gaps in the investigation and feedback to engineering within 24 hours
  • Own the efficacy monitoring responsibility to ensure our customer gets the best protections with minimal interruption
  • Test the investigation efficacy with continuously developing threat scenarios
• Partner with product management and marketing
  • Write blogs about security content to engage the community
  • Provide content help for product marketing team to engage practitioner community with content creation on social media, video platforms, community channels owned by Culminate
  • Participate media production such as webinar, interviews, etc.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field
• Familiar with investigation in at least one of the three major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Familiar with windows and/or Linux endpoint investigations
• Familiar with network, SaaS, or email investigations is a plus
• Knowledge of Python or Golang is a plus
• Strong communication skills and ability to work in a collaborative, innovative environment

Preferred Qualifications

• Have hands on experiences in prototyping attack, detection, and investigation
• Have basic understanding in AI technologies

What We Offer

• The chance to work with the best security, AI, and engineering team committed to redefining the security industry
• A team with strong conviction on solving customers' problems and iterate fast to get to customer satisfaction
• Competitive salary and benefits

How to Apply

Interested candidates are invited to submit their resume and cover letter to contact@culminatesecurity.com with the subject line "Security Research Engineer.”

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Equal Opportunity Employer

Culminate Security is committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive workplace where innovation thrives through a variety of perspectives. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. All employment decisions are based on qualifications, merit, and business needs.

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