Check Point Software
Check Point Software

Senior Security Researcher - Digital Forensics Expert

TLDR

Hunt APT intrusions across cloud, identity, and network environments while building forensic tooling and presenting original research.

  • Hunt and investigate targeted intrusions, long-dwell compromises, and espionage- driven activity across enterprise, cloud, identity, and network environments. 
  • Perform advanced forensics across operating systems, cloud, memory, and network telemetry; correlate signals to determine the scope of compromise. 
  • Build innovative tooling, research systems, and hunting/investigation workflows; identify capability gaps and propose automations to close them. 
  • Produce clear reports, forensic timelines, threat-actor assessments, and actionable detection and remediation guidance. 
  • Support internal security, threat intelligence, detection engineering, and investigation teams with expert forensic findings and technical analysis. 
  • Partner with the Threat Intelligence team to resolve complex intrusions in customer networks. 
  • Represent the organization through conference talks, workshops, and original research. 
  • Extensive hands-on APT hunting, intrusion investigation, and digital forensics. 
  • Deep understanding of APT tradecraft - stealth, persistence, credential abuse, defense evasion, living-off-the-land, custom tooling, supply-chain compromise, and command-and-control. 
  • Broad forensic expertise across operating systems, cloud platforms, network and edge infrastructure, and memory, using industry-standard forensic and hunting tools. 
  • Telemetry analysis across security platforms (EDR, SIEM, network, and identity systems) and the ability to build detection and hunting logic. 
  • Strong development skills in Python (and ideally another language such as Go, C/C++, or PowerShell) to build tooling, automations, and analysis pipelines. 
  • Strong communication for technical and executive audiences, including conference-grade presentations. 
  • Represents the organization publicly, delivering talks, workshops, and research at top-tier cybersecurity and forensics conferences. 

  Nice to Have

  • Malware analysis and reverse engineering. 
  • Experience with enterprise EDR/XDR and SIEM platforms. 
  • Container, SaaS, and hybrid-cloud investigation experience. 
  • Threat-intel collaboration; published research or prior conference talks. 

Check Point Software builds advanced cybersecurity solutions that protect over 100,000 organizations globally from sophisticated cyber and AI-driven threats. Their innovative platforms, including Agentic Network Security Orchestration, leverage AI to secure hybrid networks, cloud environments, and digital workspaces, enabling customers to navigate a complex digital landscape with confidence.

Founded
Founded 1993
Employees
500+ employees
Industry
computer & network security
Funding stage
Public
Stock ticker
Publicly traded (CHKP)
Total raised
$1.8B raised
Last funding
Raised December 2025
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