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As a Senior Engineer, Security Research you will be part of a Qualys Threat Research Unit that is responsible for the research, development, and delivery of emergent vulnerability mitigation techniques. This opening is your opportunity to work on a unique security solution in the rapidly expanding fields of penetration testing, vulnerability assessments, and cyber security.

Responsibilities:
- Research, analyze, and assess attack surface and vulnerability data.
- Develop tailored and actionable mitigation strategies and plans to address vulnerability risk.
- Work with new and emerging vulnerability data to identify potential attack paths in critical systems.
- Document, develop and present mitigation strategies in web applications, databases, standalone applications, etc.
- Analyze the root cause of vulnerabilities and support the prioritization of mitigations based on risk and return on mitigation.




- Elevate AI strategies to provide mitigation strategies that prioritize risk against level of effort for multiple systems or organizations.
- Patch diffing and reverse engineering with tools such as Ghidra, IDA, etc.
- Provide subject matter expertise on tailored mitigations to resolve and remediate vulnerabilities on targeted technologies.
- Work in a rapid-paced startup-like environment with shifting priorities to handle and maintain balance with multiple stakeholders.
- Conduct research to assess and create software patches and configuration changes to be applied to varied software, middleware, and hardware.
- Provide assessments including security, system, and business impact of vulnerabilities.
- Must be able to think ahead to avoid business outages based on the lab results.
- Analyze vulnerability data and support management of identified vulnerabilities, including tracking, remediation, and reporting.

Required Qualifications:
- Graduate with a

📌 Senior Security Research Engineer (Pune)
🏢 Qualys
📍 Pune