Senior Security Research Engineer

Are you passionate about technology and enjoy explaining complex solutions in a way that everybody gets excited? If so, read on!   About Picus Picus Security, the leading exposure validation company, proves what attackers can exploit and what your defenses stop, then closes real gaps with ready-to-deploy fixes and revalidates to confirm at the machine speed that today’s AI threats demand. The Picus Platform spans Picus Autonomous Penetration Testing, Picus Breach and Attack Simulation, and Picus Exposure Validation, unified by Picus Swarm, a swarm of AI agents that runs the whole validation loop continuously with human oversight. With 75+ integrations, it reaches across on-prem, hybrid cloud, and endpoint environments. Trusted by many Fortune 500 enterprises, Picus was named a 2025 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for Adversarial Exposure Validation and is recognized as an Innovation Leader in the Frost Radar for Automated Security Validation. About Role We're looking for a Senior Security Research Engineer to go deep on real-world threats and turn that research into high-impact technical content, including research papers, offensive and defensive security reports, whitepapers, blogs, solution and integration briefs, battlecards, webinars, demos, and conference presentations that showcase Picus's technical depth and competitive differentiation in exposure validation. It's a role that builds two things at once: your own name in the security community through published research and hands-on work, and Picus's growth as that content shapes how the market understands the category. Our research is regularly picked up and cited by the wider community, from major news organizations like Reuters, the Associated Press, and Forbes, to specialist security outlets including Dark Reading, BleepingComputer, Infosecurity Magazine, SCWorld, and Help Net Security, as well as community platforms like Hacker News. Our work has also been referenced by industry authorities such as MITRE ATT&CK and Gartner, and cited in high-impact academic journals. You'll have the opportunity to take your work on stage at industry conferences such as Black Hat and GovWare, and at local meetups and user groups. You'll be constantly challenged to develop your knowledge and skills in cybersecurity and share what you learn with the world, doing meaningful research for a fast-growing cybersecurity company. Are you a SOC analyst, security consultant, threat hunter, security engineer, or red/blue/purple team member looking to transition into a more research- and publication-focused role? Do you blog or contribute to the security community, speaking at conferences or user groups? Then this role is for you. This position is based in our Ankara office and follows a hybrid work model.