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About this role
Dropzone is hiring a Head of Security Research to lead a team of expert security engineers and practitioners to reimagine key cyber defense functions like threat intelligence, hunting, detection engineering, and alert investigation in the Agentic AI era.
This is a player/coach management role for someone who still loves being hands-on — writing detections, responding to latest CVEs, reviewing noisy alerts, and hunting attackers — but also knows how to build an elite security engineering and research team and set a high technical bar. You’ll report directly to the founder/CEO and collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to ensure Dropzone SOC agents are as good as expert human practitioners. Your team will drive product effectiveness (measurement/evaluation frameworks, encoding expert human intuitions into the agentic system) and reimagine Detection and Response with agents.
Requirements: 8+ years in detection and response with strong experience in security engineering, threat hunting, SOC, or incident response; 3+ years managing a team of security engineers, threat hunters, or SOC analysts; background building and running SOC functions, detection programs, or security research teams; proven experience leading high-performing technical teams while staying hands-on; opinionated views on world-class threat intelligence, hunting, detection engineering, SOC, and IR; and early-stage startup mindset. Remote (U.S.). Pay range: $220,000–$255,000.
About Dropzone AI
Dropzone AI is a Seattle-based cybersecurity company building AI security analysts that augment human SOC teams — reimagining threat intelligence, hunting, detection engineering, and alert investigation for the Agentic AI era.
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