Security Research Team Leader

ActiveFence is looking for an Android Security Research Team Leader to manage a team of super-talented malware researchers and reverse engineers. Our teams help top-level companies improve their security mechanism using our insights on the latest Malware trends, adversarial shifts, and new techniques. Combining intelligence, sophisticated forensics, and data science, helps us to catch the most relevant and up-to-date threats and threat actors.

What will you do?

• Lead and mentor a team of security researchers across multiple projects
• Own long-term malware and security research of a variety of Android frameworks, technologies, and domains
• Detect large-scale malware campaigns and help bring their operations down
• Review and enhance your team's research reports and code
• Collaborate with other teams throughout the organization
• This role is a management position with 40% hands-on technical work
• Find the bad guys - take them down

Must Have:

• Positive attitude, motivation, and ability to work in a fast-paced, multitasking environment
• Creative, out-of-the-box thinker with a friendly, can-do attitude
• Excellent verbal communication skills in English
• 4+ years of experience in malware research, embedded systems, vulnerability research, application security, or Android penetration testing

Nice to have:

• Experience with static reverse engineering, Assembly language, and related tools (IDA, Ghidra)
• Proficiency with dynamic research tools (Frida, GDB, LLDB, x86dbg)
• Knowledge of mobile malware and mobile security mechanisms
• Familiarity with malware classification and detection frameworks (MITRE, YARA)

ActiveFence is the leading tool stack for Trust & Safety teams, worldwide. By relying on ActiveFence’s end-to-end solution, Trust & Safety teams – of all sizes – can keep users safe from the widest spectrum of online harms, unwanted content, and malicious behavior, including child safety, disinformation, fraud, hate speech, terror, nudity, and more. 

Using cutting-edge AI and a team of world-class subject-matter experts to continuously collect, analyze, and contextualize data, ActiveFence ensures that in an ever-changing world, customers are always two steps ahead of bad actors. As a result, Trust & Safety teams can be proactive and provide maximum protection to users across a multitude of abuse areas, in 70+ languages. 

Backed by leading Silicon Valley investors such as CRV and Norwest, ActiveFence has raised $100M to date; employs 300 people worldwide, and has contributed to the online safety of billions of users across the globe.