Dropzone AI · 1 month ago
Threat Hunting Lead
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$120K/yr - $160K/yr
5+ years expDropzone AI is an innovative company focused on scaling cybersecurity through AI augmentation. The Threat Hunting Lead will define methodologies for AI-assisted threat hunting, ensuring quality and effectiveness in threat detection and response.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cyber SecuritySaaS
Responsibilities
Serve as the internal subject matter expert in threat hunting, and partner closely with engineering and product teams to refine workflows, data requirements, and evaluation metrics so that autonomous hunting gets stronger over time
Own the overall quality bar for threat hunting in our platform, defining what “good” looks like for autonomous hunts and hunt reports
Review and grade AI-driven threat hunts and their outputs, providing structured feedback, gap analysis, and clear recommendations for improvement
Engage with customers and internal stakeholders to understand their threat-hunting needs, gather feedback, and provide input on the product roadmap, engineering requirements, and GTM enablement materials
Translate threat intelligence and emerging trends into prioritized improvements to hunt content, workflows, and evaluation criteria
Curate and maintain Dropzone-recommended and community hunt content, acting as the subject matter expert for what should be included, updated, or retired
Qualification
Required
5+ years of experience in a SOC, MDR/security services provider, or large enterprise security team, with hands-on work in threat hunting
Demonstrated ability to design and execute structured threat hunts and to explain your approach, assumptions, and findings clearly
Experience working with multiple security data sources and environments (e.g., endpoint, identity, SaaS, cloud, or network), even if you specialize in a subset
Comfort operationalizing threat intelligence: taking external reports, feeds, or advisories and turning them into practical, repeatable security value. Hands-on familiarity with threat intelligence platforms and common intel feeds
Openness to working with AI/LLM-powered workflows and iterating on them with engineers and data scientists
Early-stage startup mindset; you thrive on ambiguity and move with lightspeed execution
Benefits
Company paid health insurance
401K Plan with employer match
Self-Managed PTO
Parental leave
And more
Company
Dropzone AI
Dropzone AI delivers pre-trained autonomous AI security agents that work alongside human analysts on security operations teams
51-200 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$57.35MKey Investors
Theory VenturesDecibel Partners
2025-07-17Series B· $37M
2024-04-25Series A· $16.85M
2023-08-08Seed· $3.5M
Leadership Team
Edward Wu
Founder and CEO
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