Threat Researcher in Bochum bei VMRay GmbH

Do you have a passion for cybersecurity, data and malware analysis? Would you like to work in a diverse, talented and international team of security professionals? We are looking for a passionate, self-motivated and relentlessly curious Threat Researcher (M/F/D) to join the VMRay Team.

• You analyze sophisticated malware and other threats to increase VMRay’s insight into the threat landscape.

• You develop high-quality YARA rules and malware configuration extractor modules.

• You create technical blog posts and related content for internal and external consumption.

• You contribute in delivering technical presentations at relevant conferences and webinars.

• You perform in-depth research tasks as needed by Products, Marketing, and Development departments.

• You drive product improvements via requesting new detection rules, features and report bugs.

• You take part in duties related to handling escalations and inquiries from internal and external customers

• You have 3+ years of relevant experience (industry and/or academia)

• You are experienced with reverse engineering various file types on different platforms

• You are experienced with writing YARA rules

• You have at least an intermediate skill level in Python

• You have excellent problem solving skills

• You have very good English skills in writing and verbally

• You have a pro-active, self-organized, and structured way of working

• You have familiarity with standard reverse engineering tools such as IDA Pro, Debuggers (e.g. WinDbg, x64dbg)

• You have knowledge of operating system internals (e.g., Windows, macOS, Linux) and experience in building and maintaining tools and automation (infra, services) as a plus