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Alice is seeking an experienced Malware Research Team Leader to lead a team of malware researchers, balancing hands-on technical work with people leadership (approximately 50% each). This role combines managerial responsibilities with direct involvement in malware research and security analysis.
Key Responsibilities:
- Mentor and manage a team of malware researchers, including recruitment, training, and performance evaluation
- Conduct focused malware research under tight timelines
- Detect and document emerging malware trends
- Evaluate and enhance team accuracy and performance metrics
- Share knowledge with team members and collaborate across teams and departments
- Continuously improve malware analysis and review processes
- Develop automation processes for malware identification at scale
About Alice:
Alice is a trust, safety, and security company built for the AI era. The company safeguards communicative technologies used for creation, collaboration, and interaction—both human-to-human and human-to-machine. In a world where AI has fundamentally changed the nature of risk, Alice provides end-to-end coverage across the entire AI lifecycle, supporting frontier model labs, enterprises, and user-generated content platforms with solutions including model hardening evaluations, pre-deployment red-teaming, runtime guardrails, and ongoing drift detection. Alice is recognized as a global leader in online safety and AI security, protecting over 3 billion users across major AI and tech platforms.
Requirements:
Must-Have:
- Management experience: minimum 2 years managing at least 2 employees, with recruiting and training experience
- At least 3 years of proven experience in one or more of: malware research, reverse engineering, penetration testing, in-depth SOC/IR investigations, or application security
- Strong grasp of object-oriented programming and ability to trace execution flow through code
- Familiarity with multiple programming languages (Java, C/C++, JavaScript, Python)
- Familiarity with static and dynamic research tools (JADX, Frida, network debuggers)
- Understanding of network communications and protocols
Nice-to-Have:
- Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or similar field
- Experience managing teams of more than 5 employees
- Experience with disassemblers and native debuggers (Ghidra, IDA Pro, JEB, LLDB, GDB, x86dbg)
- Proficiency with HTTP debuggers, MITM tools, and network analyzers (Fiddler, HTTP Toolkit, Burp Suite, Wireshark, Little Snitch, mitmproxy)
- Development experience in Java, Kotlin, Python, JavaScript, or C/C++
- Familiarity with multiplatform frameworks (Flutter, React Native, Unity)
