Life at Plume:

At Plume, we believe that technology isn't about moving faster, it's about making life’s moments better. Which is why we’ve built the world's first, and only, open and hardware-independent service delivery platform for smart homes, small businesses, enterprises, and beyond. Our SaaS platform uses WiFi, advanced AI, and machine learning to create the future of connected spaces—and human experiences—at massive scale.

We now deliver services to over 60 million locations globally and have managed over 3 billion devices on our platform. We’re expanding rapidly, pioneering a new category, and we achieved our Series F funding in just four years. Our customers include many of the world's largest Internet Service Providers (ISPs) who look to Plume to help them evolve their smart home offerings while gleaning insights from their own data.

With a bias for action and a love for being trailblazers, the team at Plume embodies a combination of relentless curiosity and imaginative innovation. We challenge ourselves to think in ways that other companies don't, work to do what should be done (rather than what can), and if we can’t do it exceptionally well, we don’t do it. It’s how we've assembled a team of world-class builders, thinkers, and doers. And it’s how we’re reinventing what’s possible every day.

Job Summary:

We are looking for a Senior Threat Researcher to join our global Security Labs. Plume’s Security Labs is protecting millions of households and billions of devices against an ever-evolving threat landscape. You will be part of a global team which identifies, analyzes and neutralizes cyberthreats of various types - at scale. Your responsibilities as a senior threat researcher will cover threat research, detection engineering, threat hunting, vulnerability analysis, automation and adversary tracking.

Responsibilities:

• Analyse threats, perform static and dynamic analysis of malicious content
• Create rules, signatures and heuristics for detecting emerging threats
• Carry out deep-dive for comprehensive research of specific malware families and vulnerabilities
• Leverage internal telemetry and carry out big data analysis for improving threat detection
• Build PoC prototypes for rapid evaluation of threat detection and prevention techniques
• Utilize open source and commercial intelligence feeds
• Identify areas of improvement for increasing detection rate and reducing false positives
• Provide actionable insights about trends and changes in malware or adversary behaviour
• Continuously monitor the infosec community for gathering intelligence
• Partner with in-house software development, big data and firmware teams to deliver features for advanced threat detection
• Support the internal ML teams to help improve model accuracy
• Contribute to research blogs and represent Pliume at industry events and conferences
• Deliver executive level summaries to help the decision-making process

Qualifications:

• Strong background in malware analysis, threat hunting and threat research
• Comprehensive understanding of network protocols and technologies (HTTP(S), (m)DNS, SMB, TCP/IP, UDP)
• Proficiency in industry standard tools and applications (IDA Pro, x64dbg, Ghidra, Wireshark, Fiddler, CyberChef)
• Experience using business applications such as Jira, Confluence, Slack, Grafana, Kibana
• Experience in tool development and automation using Python or other scripting languages
• Ability to quickly pick up new technologies and industry trends
• Critical thinking and excellent problem-solving skills, passion to solve challenging problems
• Excellent communication skills
• 10+ years of industry relevant experience
• Proven track record of blogging or conference appearance as a speaker is a plus

About Plume:

As the creator of the only open, hardware-independent, cloud-controlled experience platform for ISPs and their subscribers, Plume partners with over 400 ISP customers, including some of the world’s largest such as Comcast, Charter, Liberty Global, and J:COM.

Using OpenSync, the most widely supported open-source, silicon-to-cloud framework for smart spaces, Plume’s software-defined network allows ISPs to decouple their service offerings from hardware and rapidly curate and deliver new services over a multi-vendor, open-platform architecture.

Plume is an equal opportunity workplace that maintains a continuing policy of nondiscrimination in all employment practices and decisions, ensuring equal employment opportunities for all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, pregnancy, childbirth or related individual conditions, medical conditions (as defined by state law), military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.