Picus Security
51 - 200 employees
🔒 Cybersecurity
💰 Corporate Round on 2022-05
Cybersecurity
Picus Security is a company that specializes in security validation and exposure management solutions. Their platform conducts breach and attack simulations, automated penetration testing, and adversarial exposure validation to optimize and measure the effectiveness of security controls for detection and prevention. Picus helps organizations enhance their cybersecurity posture by providing a comprehensive analysis of vulnerabilities through continuous threat exposure management. They also offer educational resources on security operations and advanced threat intelligence to help teams stay ahead of evolving threats.
Associate Security Research Engineer
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Picus Security
51 - 200 employees
🔒 Cybersecurity
💰 Corporate Round on 2022-05
Cybersecurity
Picus Security is a company that specializes in security validation and exposure management solutions. Their platform conducts breach and attack simulations, automated penetration testing, and adversarial exposure validation to optimize and measure the effectiveness of security controls for detection and prevention. Picus helps organizations enhance their cybersecurity posture by providing a comprehensive analysis of vulnerabilities through continuous threat exposure management. They also offer educational resources on security operations and advanced threat intelligence to help teams stay ahead of evolving threats.
📋 Description
• Continuously research emerging threats, malware, threat actors, and vulnerability exploitation campaigns, and turn your findings into timely, insightful content, • Contribute to technical content across blogs, whitepapers, demos, solution and integration briefs, offensive and defensive research reports, and research papers, developing your voice and building a strong portfolio along the way, • Develop a deep understanding of the Picus platform and collaborate with Picus Labs, Product, and Engineering to translate new capabilities into clear, compelling technical narratives, • Monitor market trends, analyst perspectives, category leaders, emerging product categories, and the competitive landscape, helping the team turn these insights into differentiated technical content, • Learn how technical content drives discoverability across search and AI answer engines through SEO and AEO, and how it supports audiences throughout the funnel, from awareness to purchase, • Collaborate with Growth, Threat Research, Red and Blue Teams, and Alliances to transform research, technical findings, and integrations into public-facing content that reaches and resonates with the market.
🎯 Requirements
• 1–2 years of experience (including internships, labs, CTFs, or academic/personal projects) in offensive and/or defensive cybersecurity, with a foundational understanding of the security/threat landscape, • Some technical writing, or a genuine eagerness to build a portfolio of published content or projects (blogs, notes, write-ups, talks, or research), • An ability, or strong willingness to develop the ability, to translate technical concepts for different audiences, • Strong proficiency in written and verbal English, • Curiosity and a drive to keep learning in a fast-moving field, • Exposure to penetration testing tooling, vulnerability management, or security control validation, and some hands-on familiarity with blue-team tooling such as SIEM or EDR/XDR (lab, coursework, or work experience all count), • Interest in autonomous/agentic security validation (an emerging area; exploration counts fully), • Early hands-on experience with adversarial techniques (home lab, CTF, or coursework all count), • Basic scripting or automation skills (Python, n8n, or comparable agent/workflow tooling), • Awareness of modern security problems, • Any contribution to the cybersecurity community, however small (blog, GitHub, forum, meetup), • Any exposure to public speaking or presenting, • Cybersecurity-related certifications, including entry-level ones (Security+, eJPT, BTL1, or similar; OSCP/CISSP-level not expected but a plus), • Awareness of SEO/AEO principles or content strategy.
🏖️ Benefits
• Unlimited opportunity • Global exposure - Get a lot of experience working not only in a fast-growing startup but also interact with customers all around the world. • Be part of a global remote team who is taking on Exposure Validation and a growing market segment. • Equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, sex, race, color, national origin, religious belief, gender or gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, disability, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by International law. • Reference and identity checks in line with local labor laws.
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