Security Researcher - Hybrid

Are you excited to work with innovative security products?

Are you passionate about improving business processes?

Join the Akamai Workspace Protector Research team

Join a team where curiosity drives research and discoveries shape real-world protection. The Akamai Workspace Protector Research team investigates evolving threats to the modern workspace and turns findings into stronger product capabilities and research shared with the security community. You will have the freedom to pursue original ideas, handle complex security challenges, and help define what we investigate next

Explore your next research challenge

You will have room to pursue open-ended research, explore new ideas, and independently lead complex projects from an initial question through validation and publication. Staying current with emerging technologies and understanding how they change the attack surface are central to our work.

As a Security Researcher, you will be:

• Pursuing original security research to discover vulnerabilities, uncover new attack techniques, and strengthen protection for the modern workspace.
• Reverse-engineering software to support the product and conduct vulnerability research.
• Designing experiments and developing proofs of concept and tools to validate research findings.
• Translating attack techniques into detections and validating their effectiveness
• Publishing research and communicating findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Tracking new AI platform, browser, IDE, and desktop capabilities, and testing for new attack paths or detection gaps.

Do what you love

To be successful in this role you will:

• Have 3+ years of experience in security research, vulnerability research, or reverse engineering.
• Demonstrate an understanding of operating system internals.
• Be capable of independently leading complex research projects from concept to publication.
• Have impressive analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Be able to communicate complex technical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Have hands-on experience with debugging and software analysis tools, with the ability to investigate unfamiliar applications independently.
• Be able to learn unfamiliar technologies and develop testable research hypotheses quickly.

Nice to have:

A track record of published research, such as technical blogs, CVEs, or conference talks.

• Coding skills for building research tools, automating analysis, or developing proofs of concept.
• Experience translating research findings into detections, including validating effectiveness and investigating false positives.

About us

At Akamai, we make life better for billions of people, trillions of times a day.
Whether you're streaming live events, scrolling social media, watching your favorite series, or managing your savings, we're the engine behind the scenes. We provide the world's most distributed platform from Cloud to Edge to help the giants of the digital world work faster and stay more secure, making the internet a better experience for everyone.
Our focus is simple:
Cloud and Edge: Running apps closer to users for instant performance.
Security: Neutralizing threats before they ever reach your data.
Content Delivery: Scaling the world's biggest moments without a glitch.
AI: Enabling our customers to build, secure, and scale AI apps on the world's most distributed cloud platform.
At Akamai, we don't just support the internet; we power and protect it, because behind every great digital experience is a massive hidden challenge. And we're the ones who solve it. When millions of people hit play or pay, Akamai ensures it just works.

Benefits at Akamai: We support your health, well-being, finances, and life beyond work. See our benefits.

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We trust our incredible employees to work in ways that suit them best: at home, in an office, or a combination of both.