Sr. AI Threat Researcher

What You Will Do

• Research & Analysis
• Investigate how threat actors are leveraging AI across the attack lifecycle, including: AI assisted social engineering, AI-generated malware, automated reconnaissance, and adversarial attacks against ML-based defenses.
• Research real-world threats to agentic AI systems, AI supply chains, and enterprise AI deployments, assessing risk and developing detection strategies.
• Help instrument and tune telemetry to identify indicators of AI-driven attacker behavior at scale.
• Analyze global telemetry, case data, and OSINT to surface emerging AI-related threat trends and early-warning indicators.
• Automation & Efficiency
• As a practitioner of the technology you research, identify opportunities to automate repetitive research and reporting workflows using LLMs, scripting, and internal tooling.
• Help the team evolve its operating model as new AI capabilities become available.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
• Work closely with CTU researchers, SophosLabs analysts, MDR threat hunters, data
• scientists, and engineering teams to synthesize findings into unique reporting with actionable intelligence.
• Contribute to the joint task-force intelligence cycle, ensuring insights flow rapidly into protections, detection rules, and operational systems.
• Content & Publication
• Produce high-quality written intelligence outputs, including deep-dive research, rapid
• analyses, and strategic forecasting.
• Author work that is suitable for external publication via Sophos blogs, industry reports,
• and conference presentations.
• Present findings to internal stakeholders, external partners, and the broader security
• community.

What You Will Bring