Sr. Vulnerability Researcher - Global

Trend Micro, a global cybersecurity leader, helps make the world safe for exchanging digital information across enterprises, governments, and consumers.

Fueled by decades of security expertise, global threat research, and continuous innovation, Trend harnesses AI to protect organizations and individuals across clouds, networks, devices, and endpoints.

The Trend Vision One™ enterprise cybersecurity platform accelerates proactive security outcomes by predicting and preventing threats across the entire digital estate and environments like AWS, Google, Microsoft, and NVIDIA.

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Location: This role can be based anywhere globally, with preferred locations in Canada, USA, Tel Aviv, or Australia.

Position Summary

TrendAI is seeking a Sr. Vulnerability Researcher to join our team of security researchers here in the Zero Day Initiative. The Zero Day Initiative is radically changing the enterprise security landscape with its unique brand of industry-leading vulnerability research. The Vulnerability Researcher role will leverage the intelligence coming in from a globally distributed network of vulnerability researchers to deliver actionable guidance to the product teams inside of TrendAI. This role produces the intelligence that ensures that TrendAI products can detect and block zero-day threats to an enterprise. It will also support the sales and marketing teams within TrendAI through the publication of research, white papers, and blogs that will be presented at top security conferences and tradeshows around the world.

If you enjoy analyzing, finding and exploiting vulnerabilities, researching exploit techniques and mitigations, and building systems to streamline reverse engineering analysis tasks then we'd love to hear from you.

Responsibilities

• Research newly discovered vulnerabilities in a wide range of software products
• Reverse engineer and research network protocols, file formats, and software
• Develop and verify proof-of-concept files and exploit code
• Produce reports describing software vulnerabilities and detection of attack vectors
• Monitor security industry publications, news groups and other online sources for newly discovered security vulnerabilities and emerging threats
• Implement new and improve existing tools to automate and streamline the vulnerability research process
• Collaborate with other vulnerability researchers on research, analysis and report production
  
  

Required Knowledge

• Functional understanding of TCP/IP protocol stack and higher-level networking protocols (wire-level protocols, RF communications, BGP, routing protocols, or others).
• Experience in static and dynamic reverse engineering binaries ((x86, x64, ARM, PPC, MIPS, SPARC, 68k, or others)
• Knowledge in a variety of operating systems internals
  
  

Required Skills & Abilities

• Ability to analyze and describe vulnerabilities and attack methods
• Familiarity with tools such as IDA Pro, Ghidra, Binary Ninja, WinDbg, gdb, LLDB, and Wireshark
• At least two of C/C++, assembly language, Java, Python, and .NET
• Ability to produce reliable exploits for a wide range of vulnerabilities.
• Understanding of exploit mitigations such as DEP and ASLR
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Reliable and dependable team player
• Great attention to detail and personal quality assurance
• Self-directed, self-motivated with the ability to work with minimal supervision
  
  

Professional Designation/Certification

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or a related field preferred but not required.
  
  

Experience

• Industry experience performing similar technical role preferred but not required
  
  

Why Join TrendAI?

TrendAI is a leader in AI security. We not only delivered the first open-weight, cybersecurity-focused large language model, but also the industry’s first security companion agent evaluated directly by customers. Trend Vision One integrates endpoint, cloud, network, email, identity, AI application, and data security into a single, unified platform. In this role, you will partner with business leaders to design systems that can reason, learn, and protect—accelerating agility, speed of delivery, and data-centric security. You will help transform cutting-edge research into real-world defense capabilities, protecting millions of users in the generative-AI agent era and enabling enterprises to stay ahead of evolving threats.

What We Offer You

At TrendAI, what matters to you matters to us. We offer competitive pay with company performance-based bonus, strong benefits for you and your family, and real opportunities to grow your skills across cutting-edge technology. We're big on work-life balance, team connection, and building a culture that's genuinely inclusive and collaborative.

Benefits vary by candidate location, but we're happy to share our benefits summary upon request.

Be Passionate. Be Innovative. Be a Trender.

At Trend Micro, we embrace change, empower people, and encourage innovation in a connected world. Our diversity and multicultural workforce are key contributing factors to our success across the globe. Trend Micro welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.