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We are looking for a Staff Security Researcher to join our Phishing and Content Protection (PCP) team, a group of Engineers and Researchers dedicated to protecting Lookout users from phishing and other web-based threats. The PCP team leverages tools driven by state-of-the-art machine-learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to identify threats, track malicious actors, and derive intelligence on tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). This big-data approach allows us to process and analyze millions of new data points every day adding to our extensive and growing corpus of phishing data and supporting the creation of new coverage to shield users and their mobile devices from malicious actors.

Responsibilities:

• Research malicious actors, their tools, methods and targets.
• Identify and stop content-based attacks against Lookout users.
• Create detection logic and find patterns and trends to protect users from current and future phishing threats.
• Collaborate with other researchers and engineers to develop the tools to support our most critical research initiatives and content development workflows.
• Contribute to publication of discoveries of phishing and other web-based threats.

Qualifications skills:

• Ability to read and make sense of common web technologies and languages such as HTML, JavaScript, PHP etc. Previous experience in reverse engineering of software preferred.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g. Python, Ruby, Java) to create research tools and ad-hoc scripts.
• Knowledge of the Domain Name Service (DNS) and whois system and solid understanding of HTTP and TLS protocol and certificates.
• Previous experience in ML / AI or data science is an asset.
• Familiarity with cloud IaaS preferred.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Curiosity and ability to think like an attacker.
• Collaborative attitude and an interest in growing a strong research team and culture.

Tools and languages:

• DNS
• Whois
• Passive DNS
• HTML
• JavaScript
• PHP
• Python

Skills Required: PHP,SAN