Dropzone AI
Head of Security Research
Remote - US
Sponsorship not specified$220k-$255kDetected 1 day ago
RESTMachine LearningLLMsAgentic AICybersecuritySOC OperationsDetection EngineeringIncident ResponseProduct ManagementProduct StrategyResearch
About the role
- You'll be directly reporting to the founder/CEO and collaborating closely with the rest of product and engineering teams to ensure Dropzone SOC agents are as good as expert human practitioners.
Responsibilities
- Lead & Build a High-Impact Security Engineering and Research Team
- Build a team of elite security engineers and world-class domain experts across Detection and Response, including alert investigation, threat hunting, detection engineering, and threat intelligence
- Drive Product Effectiveness
- Build and refine measurement and evaluation frameworks to ensure the analysis our agents produced is high quality and mirrors expert human outputs
- Owns the process of encoding expert human intuitions and techniques into our agentic system
Requirements
- 8+ years in detection and response with strong experience in security engineering, threat hunting, SOC, or incident response
- 3+ years experience managing a team of security engineers, threat hunters, SOC analysts, etc
- Proven experience leading high-performing technical teams while staying hands-on
Nice to have
- Familiar with AI agents like Claude Code and OpenClaw
- Experience publishing security research or contributing to the broader security community
- Experience working with product marketing and field teams to evangelize new security technology
- Founder or early-stage (first 10 engineers) or experience in standing up a new technology bet within a more established company
- Work Environment/Travel
- Semi-frequent travel to professional office settings and other events locally and nationally
- some overnight travel expected.
Skills
- Work closely with rest of engineering to continuously improve the efficacy of our agents in real world deployments
- Prototype and test new ideas where unlimited analytical capacity can fundamentally change cyber defense
- Serve as a key voice in shaping Dropzone's product roadmap based on real-world operation experience
- Pressure-test assumptions about how AI should be applied in security operations
- Help define what "autonomous defense system" actually looks like in practice and be an industry thought leader around it
Compensation
- In the spirit of pay transparency, we are excited to share the base salary range below, exclusive of fringe benefits or potential bonuses.
- If you are hired at Dropzone your final base salary compensation will be determined based on factors such as geographic location, skills, education, and/or experience.
- In addition to those factors, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer.
- Please keep in mind that hiring at the maximum of the range would not be typical to allow for future and continued salary growth.
- In addition, all compensation packages include significant above market new hire equity grants because we believe in rewarding long term value creation.
- The pay range for this role is:
Benefits
- We also offer a generous benefits package, including company paid health insurance, 401K Plan with employer match, Self-Managed PTO, parental leave, and more.
Company info
- About Dropzone AI
- Dropzone's mission is to scale cybersecurity beyond human limits, and augment every single human security engineer/analyst with an army of AI security specialists.
- Humans alone cannot sufficiently protect our digital future, and AI augmentation is the only way for defenders to reclaim the high ground.
- We are an award winning company disrupting the $200B+ cybersecurity market.
- Powered by Gen AI advancements, our technology offloads repetitive day-to-day work and frees human analysts to focus on real threats and higher-value projects.
- We are venture-backed, and our team has a rare blend of deep experience across cybersecurity, AI/ML, and SaaS product development.
- Join us if you want to be on the ground floor of using Gen AI to transform cyber defense.
- Learn more at www.dropzone.ai.
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