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Senior Security Research Engineer, Vulnerability Research & Exploit Validation
About the Team
Qualys is a recognized leader in cloud security and vulnerability management, trusted by thousands of organizations worldwide. Our Threat Research team is known for its work on vulnerability research, exploit analysis, and detection content that protects customers against real-world attacks.

About the Role
We are hiring a Senior Security Research Engineer to work on vulnerability research and exploit validation across a wide range of technologies, including operating systems, databases, enterprise applications, cloud services, container platforms, and network devices. You will research vulnerabilities, confirm whether they can be exploited in the real world, and turn that work into detection and protection content.
This is a hands-on, senior individual-contributor role. You will own complex research projects, mentor other engineers, work closely with Engineering and Product,



and help improve automation across the team. The role comes with real freedom to choose the research topics and areas you go deep on, along with clear opportunities to grow your career at Qualys.

Responsibilities
Research:
Lead vulnerability research across operating systems, databases, enterprise applications, cloud services, container platforms, and network devices.
Research newly disclosed, zero-day, and actively exploited vulnerabilities, and prioritize work based on real-world risk.
Analyze root causes, attack vectors, exploitability conditions, and potential business impact.
Review technical designs, research methods, and code contributions for quality and consistency.

Exploit Validation & Detection
Build exploit-based validation techniques that confirm whether vulnerabilities are exploitable in practice.
Design secure, controlled validation methods that emulate attacker behavior wi

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