Senior Threat Intelligence Research Engineer

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.

• 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

• 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