Senior Vulnerability Researcher

Company Description

About CyberArk:

CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR), is the global leader in Identity Security. Centered on privileged access management, CyberArk provides the most comprehensive security offering for any identity – human or machine – across business applications, distributed workforces, hybrid cloud workloads and throughout the DevOps lifecycle. The world’s leading organizations trust CyberArk to help secure their most critical assets. To learn more about CyberArk, visit our CyberArk blogs or follow us on X, LinkedIn or Facebook.

Job Description

As a Vulnerability Researcher, you will identify and analyze security vulnerabilities in advanced and complex systems, focusing on attack surfaces protected by the latest mitigation techniques. You will develop and execute exploits to demonstrate real-world impact and propose innovative solutions to enhance the security and resilience of these technologies.

• Conduct comprehensive vulnerability research across diverse domains, including LLMs, Agentic AI systems and infrastructure, operating systems, web browsers, hypervisors, and cloud environments.
• Develop PoC exploits and mitigation strategies for discovered vulnerabilities.
• Author and publish research articles both on the CyberArk Labs * Research blog and in prominent cybersecurity journals as well as mainstream media outlets.
• Present innovative research at leading security conferences such as Black Hat, DEFCON, RSA, and OffensiveCon.
• Collaborate closely with R&D teams to influence and shape the development of future CyberArk features and products.
  
  

• 5+ years of experience in security research, with a strong focus on vulnerability discovery and mitigation.
• Expertise in reverse engineering techniques, analyzing malware, exploits, or vulnerabilities.
• Deep understanding of one of the following - operating systems, web security, cloud and CI/CD environments, identity security and agentic AI systems.
• Hands-on experience with vulnerability discovery and/or exploit development in any of the above.
• Experience in building and using LLMs and AI tooling for security research.
• A strong, broad sense of curiosity.
  
  

• Acknowledged with CVE assignments for discovering and reporting security vulnerabilities.
• Delivered presentations at conferences and published research in blogs and articles.
• Skilled in utilizing fuzzing tools (e.g., AFL) and static code analysis tools (e.g., CodeQL).
• Extensive development experience and strong technical expertise.