Palo Alto Networks
Senior Security Researcher
$140K–$226K
Santa Clara, United States of America · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 5, 2026
- Experience
- 3+ years in offensive security, vulnerability research, or a similar role.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position.
About the job
Conducts vulnerability research and develops AI-driven tools and autonomous workflows to discover, validate, and remediate security vulnerabilities.
What you'll do
- Perform vulnerability research, reverse engineering, fuzzing, root-cause analysis, and exploit development across platforms.
- Build and use AI-driven fuzzers, analysis tools, and agent workflows to automate vulnerability discovery, proof-of-concept generation, and validation.
- Publish research and document and responsibly disclose vulnerabilities, including contributing CVEs.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 3+ years of experience in offensive security, vulnerability research, or a similar role.
- Demonstrated experience in at least one of reverse engineering, fuzzing, exploit development, or vulnerability root-cause analysis.
- Familiarity with penetration testing tools and methodologies; strong knowledge of modern operating systems, network protocols, and application security.
Nice to have
- Master's degree or PhD in a relevant field.
- Experience applying AI/ML to cybersecurity, building agent or fuzzing harnesses, or a public security research record.
Pay
$139,600.00 - $225,775.00/yr (USD; base salary)
Tools
Large Language Models (LLMs), Reinforcement Learning, Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT), RLHF
AI focus
Apply LLMs and machine learning to automate vulnerability hunting and build AI agents, guided fuzzers, analysis tools, and autonomous workflows for vulnerability discovery, proof-of-concept generation, and validation.
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