Principal Dark Web Collection Analyst

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🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $152k - $228.5k / year

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Recorded Future

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2010

💼 Consulting

🎖️ Defense

📦 Logistics

💰 $25M Series E on 2017-10

Consulting • Defense • Logistics

Recorded Future is a leading provider of threat intelligence solutions, helping organizations see and prioritize potential threats in real-time so they can act to prevent attacks. Trusted by governments and large enterprises, Recorded Future offers comprehensive, unbiased threat intelligence that is used to secure critical infrastructure worldwide. Using their Intelligence Graph and cloud platform, they deliver timely and actionable insights by analyzing and structuring threat data from across the internet. Their services are crucial in mitigating risks such as ransomware attacks, digital risks, and supply chain vulnerabilities. With a strong reputation recognized by industry analysts, they stand at the forefront of modern defense solutions by integrating AI into security workflows.

📋 Description

• Serve as the company-wide subject matter expert on dark web and underground community dynamics, advising product, engineering, sales, and analyst teams • Own strategic collection decisions about forums, markets, channels, intelligence priorities, and resource allocation • Identify, evaluate, and gain access to criminal forums, darknet marketplaces, Telegram channels, and covert infrastructure within legal and policy boundaries • Develop and maintain collection strategies, personas, and source documentation • Partner with engineering to translate research tradecraft into automated collection pipelines • Monitor sources for takedowns, migrations, rebrands, and other operational changes • Produce finished intelligence on threat actors, community dynamics, and emerging underground infrastructure • Collaborate with product, PMM, sales, customer success, and research teams • Represent Recorded Future through customer-facing blogs, webinars, and public research on dark web tactics and trends

🎯 Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on dark web threat research with demonstrable collection outcomes • Deep, current expertise in major criminal forums and darknet markets • Proven ability to operate in closed or invite-only communities while maintaining OPSEC and legal compliance • Professional working proficiency in Russian; essential for the role • Strong analytical writing skills for technical and executive audiences • Comfort presenting to customers, hosting webinars, and writing public-facing content • Additional language skills in Ukrainian, Romanian, Chinese, Portuguese, or Arabic preferred • Background in cybercrime research, threat actor tracking, or law enforcement intelligence preferred • Prior experience at a threat intelligence vendor, CSIRT, law enforcement, or intelligence agency preferred • Basic Python scripting for data parsing and format conversion preferred

🏖️ Benefits

• Incentive compensation eligibility • Equity eligibility • Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Life insurance • 401(k) • Equal opportunity and affirmative action workplace • Accommodation or special assistance during application process