Head of Security Research

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🕒 May 13

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Dropzone AI

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2023

🔒 Cybersecurity

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

☁️ SaaS

Cybersecurity • Artificial Intelligence • SaaS

Dropzone AI is an AI-driven cybersecurity company that provides autonomous, LLM-powered SOC (Security Operations Center) analysts to investigate, triage, and resolve security alerts automatically. Their SaaS product integrates with SIEMs, EDRs, cloud and identity systems and other security tools to deliver 24/7 alert coverage, reduce mean-time-to-response (MTTR), and scale SOC operations for enterprises and MSSPs. Dropzone AI positions itself as an AI-augmented SOC solution that deploys quickly via APIs, emphasizes human-in-the-loop controls, and focuses on improving SOC efficiency, accuracy, and analyst productivity.

📋 Description

• Lead & Build a High-Impact Security Engineering and Research Team • Build a team of elite security engineers and world-class domain experts across Detection and Response, including alert investigation, threat hunting, detection engineering, and threat intelligence • Act as a player/coach, setting strategic research and engineering directions while staying deeply involved in technical work • Establish a culture of high-quality research, rapid iteration, and operator-first thinking • Drive Product Effectiveness • Build and refine measurement and evaluation frameworks to ensure the analysis our agents produced is high quality and mirrors expert human outputs • Owns the process of encoding expert human intuitions and techniques into our agentic system • Work closely with rest of engineering to continuously improve the efficacy of our agents in real world deployments • Reimagine Detection and Response with agents • Prototype and test new ideas where unlimited analytical capacity can fundamentally change cyber defense • Serve as a key voice in shaping Dropzone’s product roadmap based on real-world operation experience • Pressure-test assumptions about how AI should be applied in security operations • Help define what “autonomous defense system” actually looks like in practice and be an industry thought leader around it

🎯 Requirements

• 8+ years in detection and response with strong experience in security engineering, threat hunting, SOC, or incident response • 3+ years experience managing a team of security engineers, threat hunters, SOC analysts, etc • Background in building and running SOC functions, detection programs, or security research teams • Proven experience leading high-performing technical teams while staying hands-on • Able to mentor across multiple domains (detections, intel, IR) without being siloed • Opinionated about what world-class looks like in threat intelligence, hunting, detection engineering, SOC, and IR • Able to collaborate closely with engineering and product teams • Early-stage startup mindset. You thrive on ambiguity and move with lightspeed execution.

🏖️ Benefits

• company paid health insurance • 401K Plan with employer match • Self-Managed PTO • parental leave • more