Drimva

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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