Sr. Cybersecurity Engineer

MixMode is the leader in delivering AI cybersecurity solutions at scale and is the first to bring a third-wave, context-aware AI approach that automatically learns and adapts to dynamically changing environments. MixMode offers a patented, self-supervised learning Platform designed to detect known and unknown threats in real-time across cloud, hybrid, or on-prem environments. Large enterprises with big data environments, including global entities in financial services, Fortune 1K commercial enterprises, critical infrastructure, and government sectors, trust MixMode to protect their most critical assets. Backed by PSG and Entrada Ventures, the company is headquartered in Santa Barbara, CA. Learn more at www.mixmode.ai.

Job Title: Senior Cybersecurity Engineer
Location: Santa Barbara CA or Remote, Part-time (25 hours/wk) and Temporary (3 month contract)

Job Summary: 

MixMode is on a mission to revolutionize cybersecurity through a new brand of generative AI designed to autonomously detect and mitigate emerging threats. As a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer on our AI Team, you will play a crucial role in shaping our next-generation AI models. Leveraging your deep expertise in cybersecurity, you will collaborate with AI Engineers to integrate advanced logic into our AI Engine that supports the SOC roles of Triage Specialist, Incident Responder, and Threat Hunter, ensuring it stays ahead of the evolving threat landscape. This is a unique opportunity to influence the future of cybersecurity by developing cutting-edge AI solutions that support Threat Hunters and Security Analysts in defending critical networks.

What you’ll be doing:

• Maintain continual posture of understanding, documenting and educating MixMode on the current threat landscape.
• Research and discover emerging threats with a view towards helping craft MixMode’s approach to detect these threats.
• Work closely with AI Engineers to develop a next-generation AI model that can support Threat Hunters in the field.
• Work closely with MixMode’s AI Team to build realistic attack datasets that can be used to test and train MixMode’s AI.
• Work closely with the MixMode Product Management team to develop approaches to detection that align with the evolving threat landscape.
• Performing threat-hunting activities on customer datasets to uncover malicious activity that can be published as CVEs and intel
• Ability to present findings at conferences or events on research and interesting items in cyber security

What you’ll need to bring (job requirements):

• Extensive experience in cybersecurity research, offensive and defensive capabilities, threat intelligence and/or incident response/reverse engineering. US Federal Government agency experience desired.
• Experience with multiple Open Source and proprietary threat feeds
• Prior published CVEs and/or threat actor attribution experience a plus
• Packet capture analysis and decoding skills
• Experience developing intel and curating threat feeds, including IDS signatures, YARA rules, JA3 signatures, and traditional IOCs
• Deep understanding of Linux/unix and Windows from an administrative and threat model perspective
• Research experience for publishing detailed analysis of malware, tactics, techniques, and procedures of adversaries
• Familiarity with various cybersecurity exploitation tools and methodologies, common malware families, and antivirus evasion techniques.
• Comfortable working with software development teams
• Experience working in python and bash
• Excellent communication skills: able to articulate technical knowledge without technical jargon.
• Experience with Scrum methodology
• Experience working with public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GPC etc.).
• Experience working with virtualized environments (VMWare, Hyper-V, etc.).
• Educated in technology and computer science. B.S. in technical degree preferred.

This is a newly created position and we are open to hiring great talent who may have qualifications above or below those specifically listed in this job description. Pursuant to California law, we must display the pay range for this job. Since we are willing to hire within a broad spectrum of qualifications, we also reflect a broad pay range.  The base hourly range that we are targeting for this position is $50-$100/hr, though we can adjust based on individual qualifications. Individual salary is determined by qualifications, role, level, and location.

Compensation and benefits are competitive based on industry standards. Benefits for full-time team members include:

• Remote-First Work Culture
• Healthcare (Medical, Dental, Vision)
• Basic & Voluntary Life and AD&D
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
• 401(k) with Employer Match
• Paid Holidays & Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

MixMode provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.  This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
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Please note: MixMode does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the event of a recruiter or agency submitting a resume or candidate without a signed agreement being in place, we explicitly reserve the right to pursue and hire such candidates without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted directly to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of MixMode.