Join Wiz as an Applied Security Researcher to drive innovative security solutions for cloud and AI applications.
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Last verified on the company career page 19 hours ago
AI in the day-to-day
We offer an AI-powered platform that harnesses Google’s Threat Intelligence and Security Operations.
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
The Applied Security Researcher at Wiz focuses on investigating and modeling risks within complex cloud and AI environments, driving the development of innovative security features. This role requires a strong background in security research, particularly in threat modeling and architectural understanding of software systems. Ideal candidates will have over five years of experience and a proven ability to manage complex research projects independently. Wiz's fast-paced, collaborative culture emphasizes creativity and impact, making it suitable for seasoned professionals eager to contribute to cutting-edge security solutions.
Joblaze insights
Quick facts
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Applied Security Researcher role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI, Cloud, security.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Wiz targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Applied Security Researcher role at Wiz.
From the original posting
Come join the organization that is redefining security for the AI era. As one of the fastest-growing startups ever, we enable teams to secure cloud and AI applications by connecting code, cloud, and runtime into a single shared context. Trusted by security teams all over the world, we have a proven track record of success and a culture that values world-class talent. Not to mention, we're now powered by Google, meaning we offer our customers an AI-powered platform that harnesses Google’s Threat Intelligence and Security Operations to better detect, prevent, and respond to threats across all environments, allowing for further innovation.
Minimum qualifications
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in security or security research.
- A strong threat-modeling mindset - deep understanding of both how attackers approach complex environments and how enterprises defend them
- Deep understanding of how complex software systems are built, so you can find where they're vulnerable (Low-level, Distributed, or Core System Engineering mindset)
- A foundation in program analysis - parsing, compilation and static code analysis — and comfort reasoning about code as data.
- Proven ability to define and implement AI agents, and to make their output reproducible.
- Proven ability to work independently, prioritize, and carry complex, multi-quarter projects from concept to working production grade software.
Preferred qualifications
- Security research experience in modern cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, etc) and infrastructure-as-code.
- Familiarity with model benchmarking, evaluation, fine-tuning, and with grading agent output against ground truth.
- Query languages for security telemetry, graph databases, or large-scale data-mining and clustering experience.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, with a track record of shipping alongside cross-functional teams (Product, Engineering, Research).
About the job
We're looking for a talented Applied Security Researcher to join our team and play a major role in Wiz's frontier research team, enabling contextual code understanding across complex cloud deployments.
Responsibilities
- Drive continuous research from initial concept through PoC to product integration.
- Build threat models for AI-native and cloud-native systems: how attackers approach them, how enterprises defend them, and where the gaps are.
- Build AI agents that analyze code and/or cloud infrastructure to produce specific insights.
- Analyze and understand real-world systems from a security perspective - architecture, data flows, and source code.
- Partner across Product, Engineering, and Research to ship what you discover.
Applicants must have the legal right to work in the country where the position is based, without the need for visa sponsorship. This role does not offer visa sponsorship.
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