Arctic Wolf
Senior Manager, Adversary Research
$104K–$259K
Remote, United States · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- 12 or more years in a relevant discipline; three or more years leading people, research programs, or multidisciplinary technical teams.
About the job
Leads an adversary research team investigating sophisticated cyber threats and turning findings into intelligence, detections, and stronger security outcomes.
What you'll do
- Set research strategy and lead, coach, and develop threat researchers and analysts.
- Direct investigations and proactive hunting across adversary activity, malware, infrastructure, and large-scale telemetry.
- Translate findings into detections, intelligence reporting, and improvements through cross-functional partnerships.
What they ask for
- 12 or more years of experience in cyber threat intelligence, adversary research, threat hunting, malware analysis, incident response, or a related discipline.
- Three or more years of experience leading people, research programs, or multidisciplinary technical teams.
- Demonstrated success building or maturing a threat intelligence, adversary research, or related security function.
- Experience analyzing endpoint, network, cloud, identity, infrastructure, malware, and open-source data; using MITRE ATT&CK and the Diamond Model; and translating intelligence into defensive outcomes.
Nice to have
- Working knowledge of reverse-engineering tools such as IDA Pro, Ghidra, or x64dbg.
- Experience using Python, SQL, or similar languages for research automation and large-scale analysis.
Pay
104,500 to 259,000 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
MITRE ATT&CK, Diamond Model, YARA, Sigma, SIEM, EDR, SOAR, Python
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