Fortinet
Senior Threat Intelligence Research Engineer
$245K–$312K
Sunnyvale, CA · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 6, 2026
- Experience
- 10+ years of industry experience with similar presentation experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience; graduate degree preferred.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.
About the job
Supports regional presales and customer engagements by applying threat intelligence and offensive-security expertise to deliver technical demonstrations, workshops, and thought leadership that showcase Fortinet security capabilities.
What you'll do
- Develop and deliver technical presentations, demonstrations, workshops, and CTF challenges for technical and business audiences.
- Create and maintain cyber labs; contribute to malware analysis, reverse engineering, threat hunting, and threat-intelligence research.
- Support presales opportunities, strategic relationships, sales and partner enablement, and content creation; travel up to 50%.
What they ask for
- 10+ years of industry experience with similar presentation experience.
- Technical presentation skills, including communicating effectively to C-level, technical, and business audiences.
- Understanding of malware and sandbox concepts (PE32/64 Windows), security vulnerability and exploit lifecycle, and networking concepts.
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- Graduate degree preferred.
- ARM/mobile malware familiarity and penetration testing framework experience (e.g., Metasploit) are bonuses or valuable assets.
Pay
$245,000 - $312,000 per year (on-target earnings; total pay)
Tools
Active Directory, SQL, Docker, Kubernetes, Metasploit
AI focus
Research and demonstrate adversarial AI techniques, AI model manipulation, and machine-learning models; support security engagements involving adversarial use of AI.
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