Senior OSINT/WEBINT/SOCMINT Engineer

📌 About the Role

The company is looking for a Senior OSINT/WEBINT/SOCMINT Engineer to join their technical intelligence operations team. The role includes designing and building sophisticated scraping systems, developing custom tools, and implementing advanced intelligence gathering strategies – all while upholding strict privacy and legal standards.

📌 Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain advanced web scraping systems
• Implement OSINT/WEBINT/SOCMINT operations and pipelines
• Create custom tools and scripts to automate intelligence gathering
• Use advanced techniques to bypass anti-scraping protections (within legal boundaries)
• Develop methodologies for anonymous browsing and secure data handling
• Conduct technical training and mentor junior team members

📌 Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in OSINT/WEBINT/SOCMINT or related fields
• Strong programming skills in Python, JavaScript, and R
• Deep experience in building complex scraping systems
• Expertise in social media APIs and data extraction techniques
• Familiarity with ETL processes and NLP frameworks
• Hands-on experience with TOR, VPNs, and proxy networks
• Solid understanding of the legal and ethical frameworks in intelligence gathering
• Bachelor's degree in CS, Data Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field (Master’s preferred)
• Mandatory: Military service in a technological intelligence unit (OSINT/WEBINT experience is a strong plus)
• Advantage: OSINT-CLI, SANS FOR578, or similar certifications
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, high-pressure environments

📌 Tech & Methodologies Used

Selenium, Playwright, Puppeteer, Scrapy, BeautifulSoup, LXML

Proxy rotation, browser fingerprinting, distributed crawling

Graph APIs, social network mapping, historical data retrieval

NLP, entity recognition, timeline reconstruction, data fusion

TOR routing, VM isolation, browser compartmentalization

Custom reporting and proprietary data extractors