Senior Security Engineer - Vulnerability Research

Responsibilities

• Decide which attack surfaces and bug classes to go after and build the capability needed to discover new vulnerabilities
• Triage newly discovered vulnerabilities quickly and accurately, ranking them by exploitability and actual impact
• Make remediation easy for engineering by providing high-quality patch guidance and working pull requests in addition to the vulnerability reports
• Maintain a threat model of Tanium software and services and use it to direct future vulnerability research projects
• Drive vulnerability research with frontier AI capabilities by evaluating what is possible using in-house and third-party tooling and building agentic workflows around what works
• Build and maintain reliable tooling to support vulnerability research efforts including AI skills, fuzzing harnesses and static and dynamic analyzers
• Shorten the time from detection to remediation by driving down false positive rate and improving finding quality
• Perform source code review and targeted security assessment of high-risk components
• We’re looking for someone with
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or other relevant degree or equivalent experience

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