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
Serves as Fortinet’s threat intelligence subject matter expert, engaging customers and executives, supporting strategic sales opportunities, and demonstrating security capabilities through research, presentations, training, and labs.
What you'll do
- Deliver executive briefings, technical presentations, public talks, and sales knowledge transfer; create presentation and training content.
- Support strategic account opportunities by advising on threat intelligence and SecOps solutions, demonstrating Fortinet products, and working with sales teams.
- Conduct threat research, hunting, malware analysis, and lab or demo development; train internal teams and support threat intelligence relationships.
What they ask for
- Technical presentation skills, including communicating to C-level and technical audiences.
- 10+ years of industry experience with similar presentation experience.
- Understanding of malware and sandbox concepts (PE32/64 Windows), and the security vulnerability and exploit lifecycle.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
Nice to have
- Graduate degree.
- ARM/mobile experience, penetration testing framework experience (e.g., Metasploit), or networking concepts.
Pay
$245,000 - $312,000 per year (on-target earnings; total pay)
Tools
AI, ML, FortiGuard, FortiRecon, FortiSOAR, FortiNDR, Metasploit, ZTNA
AI focus
Applies knowledge of AI, adversarial AI techniques, and ML models to threat intelligence, threat hunting, investigations, and cyber operations; demonstrates mitigation capabilities.
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