Security Researcher

Employment Type: Full-Time Location: Remote in Singapore Minimum Experience: 3 years Pixalate is an online trust and safety platform that protects businesses, consumers, and children from deceptive, fraudulent, and non-compliant mobile, CTV apps, and websites.

Our software and data have been used to unearth multiple high-profile criminal and illegal surveillance cases including:

• Gizmodo: An iCloud Feature Is Enabling a $65 Million Scam, New Research Says

• Adweek: A 7-Figure Ad Fraud Scheme Running on Roku Underlines Murkiness of CTV

• Washington Post: Your kids apps are spying on them

• Pro Publica: Porn, Piracy, Fraud: What Lurks Inside Googles Black Box Ad Empire

• ABC7 News: The State of Children's Privacy Online

• NBC News: How many apps are tracking your children

Our team of lawyers, data scientists, engineers, economists, and researchers span globally with a presence in California, New York, Washington DC, London, and Singapore.

About the Role:

The Security Researcher will be a subject matter expert in threat intelligence, specifically ad fraud. Collaborating closely with Product and Engineering, this role will produce in-depth technical reports and research to enhance our products and advance our cutting-edge research platform.

Responsibilities: Threat Research & Analysis: Conduct deep-dive technical research into existing and emerging cyber threats, actor behaviors, malicious infrastructure, and attack vectors.

Technical Investigations:

• Reverse engineer Mobile and Connected TV Apps for any potential Investigations including but not limited to technical analysis of threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), including malware analysis, intrusion analysis, network traffic analysis, and vulnerability assessment.

Intelligence Reporting:

• Generate actionable, unbiased, strategic threat intelligence reports, providing detailed insights on cyber adversaries and potential security risks.

• Deliver comprehensive technical briefings, both orally and in writing, clearly communicating threat landscapes, actor capabilities, and recommended defensive actions.

Collaboration & Incident Response:

• Partner with Product, Engineering and Partner teams to facilitate timely information sharing and threat mitigation.

• Contribute directly to Pixalate products to protect our clients from ad fraud attacks

Technical Qualifications

• PhD, Masters or Bachelors in Computer Science or related field is preferred

• Demonstrated proficiency in scripting and automation languages (Python preferred, PHP, JavaScript).

• Strong familiarity with malware analysis, threat hunting, reverse engineering tools, and intrusion detection systems.

• Solid knowledge of operating systems (Android, iOS, Roku, AndroidTV, Samsung, LG OS, etc).

• General understanding of advertisement tags, command centers, and SDKs

Preferred Skills

• Prior hands-on experience conducting threat intelligence analysis, malware reverse engineering, penetration testing, or digital forensics.

• Experience with Android and iOS development, including full-stack applications

• Experience with automated testing frameworks

• Experience with setting up Man in the Middle proxies to instrument applications.

• Experience in commonly used communications protocols such as TCP, UDP, HTTPS, TLS.

• Certification(s) in relevant security areas (GIAC, CISSP, OSCP, CEH, etc.) desirable.

• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to translate complex technical data into actionable insights.

Would you like working at Pixalate?

• Everyones a data addict and an analytical thinker

• Titles dont mean much; you attain respect by producing results

• We appreciate small, highly-productive teams

• Slack is a way of life; short emails are encouraged

• We hold a fearless attitude in high esteem

• We worship bold ideas

• Chess players do well

• We revere collaboration, collaboration, collaboration!

What perks do we have to offer?

• We focus on doing things differently and challenge each other to be the best we can be, offering our employees:

• Experienced leadership and founding team

• Casual environment

• Fully Remote Work(yes, we mean it - you will never have to sit in traffic anymore!)

• High performing team that wants to win and have fun doing it

• Extremely competitive compensation

• Opportunity for advancement (Pixalate will be what you make it)