Overview
In this role you drive threat intelligence and adversarial security initiatives within FortiGuard, delivering labs, demos and training to support presales and high-impact opportunities. You’ll design and run technical workshops, CTFs, and research content to demonstrate Fortinet’s AI-enabled threat detection and defense capabilities. You collaborate with global teams to shape thought leadership and enable SecOps-driven engagements, translating complex concepts for technical and business audiences. Your work helps disrupt adversaries and strengthen customer security operations.
Verantwortungsbereiche
- Support presales efforts across the AMER region with regional travel up to 50%
- Design and deliver advanced workshops, demos, and CTF challenges simulating real-world threats
- Develop and maintain cyber labs using Active Directory, SQL, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Create threat intelligence content, blogs, webinars, whitepapers, and conference presentations
- Liaise with FortiGuard Labs R&D to bring cutting-edge threat insights to field opportunities
- Mentor and enable sales engineers, partners, and marketing teams on threats and AI usage
- Deliver technical presentations to both technical and executive audiences
- Demonstrate FortiGuard security concepts (APTs, threat intel) in product context
- Engage in lab development, reverse engineering/malware analysis and threat hunting projects
- Contribute to strategic assets for executive briefings and high-impact demonstrations
- Collaborate with marketing to generate leads and create new content for presentations and training
Zentrale Anforderungen
- 10+ years of industry experience with presentation experience
- Strong understanding of malware, sandboxes (PE32/64) and exploit lifecycle
- Penetration testing framework experience (e.g., Metasploit)
- Solid networking concepts
- Ability to independently research cyber security topics, build labs, demos, and training
- Excellent verbal and written communication; able to present to technical and business audiences
- Experience with adversarial AI techniques and ML models
- Familiarity with malware reverse engineering, threat hunting, and lab development
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent; graduate degree preferred
- Willingness to travel up to 50% and speak with external stakeholders
- excellent communication
- public speaking to varied audiences
- collaboration across teams
- threat intelligence
- offensive security and adversarial AI
- malware analysis and reverse engineering
Senior Threat Intelligence Research Engineer Arbeitgeber: Fortinet
Fortinet ist ein hervorragender Arbeitgeber, der seinen Mitarbeitern in Deutschland, insbesondere in Frankfurt, Hamburg und München, eine dynamische und unterstützende Arbeitsumgebung bietet. Mit einem starken Fokus auf Weiterbildung und Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten fördert Fortinet eine offene Unternehmenskultur, die Zusammenarbeit und Innovation schätzt. Die Mitarbeiter profitieren von einem wettbewerbsfähigen Gehaltspaket, einschließlich Aktienoptionen, und haben die Möglichkeit, Teil eines erfolgreichen Teams zu werden, das einen bedeutenden Einfluss auf die Cybersicherheitsbranche hat.
