Associate Principal Malware Analyst

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $182k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🧐 Analyst

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Dragos, Inc.

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2016

🏭 Manufacturing

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

💰 $74M Series D - Dragos on 2023-09

Manufacturing • Logistics • Consulting

Dragos, Inc. is a cybersecurity company specializing in operational technology (OT) and industrial control systems (ICS) protection for critical infrastructure. It provides an OT-native platform that delivers asset visibility, vulnerability management, threat detection, and response playbooks, backed by threat intelligence, managed services (including OT Watch and incident response), training, and compliance support. Dragos focuses on defending sectors like energy, utilities, manufacturing, transportation, and other industrial environments through a combination of software, intelligence, and expert services.

📋 Description

• Identify and assess highly sophisticated threats targeting ICS and critical infrastructure, evaluating their operational impact and severity. • Develop innovative analysis methods and conduct advanced reverse engineering and deobfuscation of ICS-specific malware, software, and firmware. • Create Yara signatures and partner closely with detection engineers to develop novel, ICS-specific threat detections. • Write customer-facing technical reports and internal documentation translating complex malware findings into clear operational impact. • Refine and evolve the malware analysis pipeline with new methods and procedures. • Collaborate with hunters, intelligence analysts, and detection engineers to drive malware-related threat research and solve complex technical problems. • Exercise independent judgment in selecting analytical methods and serve as a trusted technical advisor on complex malware analysis and detection questions.

🎯 Requirements

• 5-8 years of experience in malware analysis, reverse engineering, or a related ICS/OT cybersecurity discipline. • Advanced proficiency in static and dynamic malware reverse engineering using tools such as disassemblers, debuggers, and decompilers (e.g., IDA Pro, Ghidra, x64dbg). • Demonstrated experience analyzing ICS-specific software, firmware, and embedded systems. • Strong Yara signature development skills, with experience building detection analytics for novel malware and attack techniques. • Proven ability to write clear, persuasive, customer-facing technical reports on complex malware findings. • Experience contributing to or improving a malware analysis pipeline, tooling, or workflow. • Comfortable collaborating with detection engineers, hunters, and intelligence analysts on cross-team technical problems. • Familiarity with ICS/OT protocols, threat groups, and the broader critical infrastructure threat landscape is a major plus. • All new hires must pass a background check as a condition of employment.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive Equity Package • Comprehensive Benefits Plan • Remote-first work environment

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