Malware Researcher Job at McAfee

McAfee is hiring for the role of Malware Researcher!

Responsibilities of the Candidate:

• Understand threat telemetry trends and identify patterns to reduce time to detect. 
• Develop automation to harvest malware threat intelligence from various sources such as product telemetry, OSINT, Dark Web monitoring, spam monitoring, etc. 
• Develop early identification and alerts systems for threats based on various online platforms and product telemetry. 
• Analyze malware communication and techniques to find Indicators of compromise (IOC) or indicators of attack (IOA).
• Feature engineering development and analysis.

Requirements:

• Knowledge of programming languages like Python and its packages like NumPy, matplotlib, and seaborn.
• Data source accesses like Spark, and SQL are desirable. Familiarity with UI & dashboard tools like Jupiter and data bricks is expected. 
• Good knowledge of machine learning methods like k-Nearest Neighbors, SVM, and Decision/ Random Forests.  
• Proficiency in handling imperfections in data is an important aspect of a data scientist's job description.  
• Experience with Data Visualization Tools like Jupiter or Power BI to visually encode data are added advantages.