Darktrace is a global leader in AI for cybersecurity that keeps organizations ahead of the changing threat landscape every day. Founded in 2013, Darktrace provides the essential cybersecurity platform protecting nearly 10,000 organizations from unknown threats using its proprietary AI.

The Darktrace Active AI Security Platform™ delivers a proactive approach to cyber resilience to secure the business across the entire digital estate – from network to cloud to email. Breakthrough innovations from our R&D teams have resulted in over 200 patent applications filed. Darktrace’s platform and services are supported by over 2,400 employees around the world. To learn more, visit http://www.darktrace.com.

Job Description:

Darktrace builds advanced cybersecurity technologies designed to help organizations stay ahead of modern threats. Our teams combine deep security expertise with innovative thinking to deliver products that detect, prevent, and respond to attacks across complex digital environments. We are expanding our security engineering and research function, and we’re looking for a Security Researcher who can turn deep cybersecurity knowledge into innovative ideas that enhance and evolve our product portfolio.

As a Security Researcher, you will apply your offensive-security expertise to drive innovation across our cybersecurity product portfolio. Your work will focus on researching emerging attacker techniques, exploring how real-world adversaries operate, and experimenting with new approaches for detecting and preventing novel threats. You will generate insights that directly inform the design of new product features, detection logic, and prototype capabilities. During all this you will be teaming up with the development teams to put your valued contributions into production.
This is a hybrid role requiring 2 days per week in the The Hague office.

What will I be doing:

You will work closely with engineering, product management, data science, and threat research teams to translate offensive research into practical defensive solutions. Whether developing proof-of-concept software, identifying opportunities for improved threat coverage, or contributing to early-stage product ideation, you will play a key role in ensuring our technology continues to anticipate and counter modern cyber threats.

Your work will sit right in the middle of our R&D department at the intersection of offensive research, product innovation, and software development. Responsibilities include:

• Research and Development into methods that discover and prevent novel threats,
• Researching emerging exploit techniques, threat actor methodologies, and novel attack vectors,
• Building proof-of-concept software solutions that pave the way to new product features,
• Support the transition of proof of concepts to the development teams who will oversee the actual creation of the products and/or features,
• Collaborating with engineering and product teams, providing regular updates on projects and sharing cybersecurity relevant trends,
• Document the process of transitioning ideas to proof of concepts through research publications and potentially patents.

What experience do I need:

We’re looking for someone with strong offensive-security foundations paired with curiosity, creativity, and a passion for building better security products. Ideal experience includes:

• Strong Cybersecurity knowledge and being on top of Cybersecurity trends,
• Ability to think like an attacker and creatively explore how systems can be misused or subverted,
• Proficiency with scripting or automation languages (Python, Bash, PowerShell)
• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g. Git)
• Ability to craft proof-of-concept scripts to validate findings,
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain offensive insights to product and development teams,
• Broad but strong knowledge of architecture, operating systems, networking, virtualization/containerization platforms, API design and interfacing etc. is a plus
• Experience with Machine Learning / AI applications (within security context) is a plus.

Join Us

If you’re passionate about using offensive-security expertise to shape world-class cybersecurity products, and you enjoy solving complex problems at scale, we’d love to hear from you. Apply now or explore more opportunities on our careers page.

Benefits:

• 25 days’ holiday + all public holidays,

• Additional day off for your birthday,

• Commuting allowance,

• Pension Scheme,

• Life & Disability insurance,

• Employee Assistance Program,

• Bicycle Leasing Scheme.