Senior Reverse Engineer Jobs in Santa Clara, CA (NOW HIRING)

Job Summary:
Fortinet is a cybersecurity pioneer with over two decades of excellence, seeking a Senior Threat Intelligence Research Engineer to contribute to their rapidly growing business. This role focuses on providing subject matter expertise in security and threat intelligence while engaging directly with sales leadership to drive opportunities within major accounts.
Responsibilities:
• You will be required attend multiple meetings and events at the Fortinet Sunnyvale, CA offices. Candidates local to the region will be preferred. Remote candidates should expect up to 75% travel. The travel requirements are expected to be within the United States. However, some travel to Canada and other regions may be needed from time-to-time.
• The FortiGuard SE must have a clear understanding of advanced threat in cyber including understanding advanced cyber-attacks, understanding adversarial AI techniques and ML models, being able to create labs and demos, being able to work with Fortinet products to showcase mitigation techniques.
• The FortiGuard SE must be an excellent speaker who can articulate technical concepts into appropriate terms for a given target audience
• The FortiGuard SE will be a technical resource focused on FortiGuard services & technology (primarily AI, Antivirus, IPS, Webfiltering, Antispam) and threat intelligence
• The FortiGuard SE will also be an expert on threat and SOC solutions including FortiRecon, FortiSOAR, FortiNDR, Deceptor, Sandbox, EDR/XDR and ZTNA. Candidates with experience in complex SOAR and ASM technologies are preferred.
• Scale and train workforce as a subject matter expert, including FCISO team and SE/CSE community
• Liaison and support strategic relationships for AMER region, including key threat intelligence vertical ISACs
• Support training efforts. This may include creating cyber ranges, training classes, labs, and demos.
• Engage in public speaking representing Fortinet as a thought leader in industry
• Work with marketing group to create leads from existing security alliances and relationships
• Create new content for use in presentations, whitepapers, and so forth
• Deliver executive briefings to executives and highly technical teams at Fortinet’s HQ located in Sunnyvale, California. This will be a primary focus of the role.
• Deliver technical presentations, webcasts and SE/sales knowledge transfer
• Demonstrate FortiGuard security concepts in relation to Fortinet product, most importantly APT and threat intelligence
• Collaborates closely with the sales team and is expected to be able to clearly position Fortinet both from a technical and business perspective against the identified competitors
• Subject matter expertise including lab development, reverse engineering/malware analysis and threat hunting with part of the role working on these projects
Qualifications:
Required:
• 10+ years of experience in industry with similar presentation experience
• Technical presentation skills translated to a C-level environment are a must; act as a leading industry and subject matter expert
• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience. Graduate degree preferred.
• Understand malware and sandbox concepts (PE32/64 Windows); ARM/mobile is a bonus
• Understand security vulnerability and exploit lifecycle
• Penetration testing framework (ie: Metasploit) experience is a valuable asset
• Networking concepts are an asset
• Candidates should feel comfortable interpedently researching cyber, hacking, and AI topics, creating labs, demos, and training, and creating CTF programs.
• Articulate and comfortable presenting to groups; ability to communicate effectively to technical and business leaders
• Clear understanding of competitive landscape and differentiators in regard to APT defense
• Work closely with the SE/CSE community, to ensure the growth of the associated products and accounts in their region
• The FortiGuard SE must have a clear understanding of advanced threat in cyber including understanding advanced cyber-attacks, understanding adversarial AI techniques and ML models, being able to create labs and demos, being able to work with Fortinet products to showcase mitigation techniques.
• The FortiGuard SE must be an excellent speaker who can articulate technical concepts into appropriate terms for a given target audience.
• The FortiGuard SE will be a technical resource focused on FortiGuard services & technology (primarily AI, Antivirus, IPS, Webfiltering, Antispam) and threat intelligence.
• The FortiGuard SE will also be an expert on threat and SOC solutions including FortiRecon, FortiSOAR, FortiNDR, Deceptor, Sandbox, EDR/XDR and ZTNA.
• Scale and train workforce as a subject matter expert, including FCISO team and SE/CSE community.
• Liaison and support strategic relationships for AMER region, including key threat intelligence vertical ISACs.
• Support training efforts. This may include creating cyber ranges, training classes, labs, and demos.
• Engage in public speaking representing Fortinet as a thought leader in industry.
• Work with marketing group to create leads from existing security alliances and relationships.
• Create new content for use in presentations, whitepapers, and so forth.
• Deliver executive briefings to executives and highly technical teams at Fortinet’s HQ located in Sunnyvale, California. This will be a primary focus of the role.
• Deliver technical presentations, webcasts and SE/sales knowledge transfer.
• Demonstrate FortiGuard security concepts in relation to Fortinet product, most importantly APT and threat intelligence.
• Collaborates closely with the sales team and is expected to be able to clearly position Fortinet both from a technical and business perspective against the identified competitors.
• Subject matter expertise including lab development, reverse engineering/malware analysis and threat hunting with part of the role working on these projects.
Preferred:
• Candidates with experience in complex SOAR and ASM technologies are preferred.
• Candidates local to the region will be preferred. Remote candidates should expect up to 75% travel.
Company:
Fortinet is a provider of network security appliances that include firewalls, security gateways, and complementary products. It is a sub-organization of Fortinet Federal. Founded in 2000, the company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.