Threat Research Analyst

The Detection team at HUMAN is dedicated to protecting the internet by disrupting the economics of cybercrime. On Threat Research, we are responsible for identifying bot traffic pretending to be humans viewing ads, understanding how the bad actors are monetizing the invalid traffic, and launching mitigations to stop the bots.

We are looking for an Analyst to join our team; someone who is curious, efficient, and possesses a relentless drive for improvement and will use those tools to manage the full-cycle of fraud fighting: from the early stages of exploratory research to the development and launching of statistical detection techniques.

What you'll do:

- Identify novel methodologies to detect invalid and bot traffic

- Act with speed to deploy stop-gap mitigations for emerging threats

- Deploy robust defenses based on statistical analysis of supply chain data, network & JS signals, and fraud actor behavior

- Deliver new customer-facing features through collaboration with the Product and Engineering teams

- Build complex queries and notebooks to analyze historical data, including the use of techniques such as: sub-queries, temp tables, complex joins, variables

- Participate in week-long rotations with the primary responsibility of Triaging customer and internal inquiries about fraud efficacy by acting as the first line of analysis

- Continuously identify opportunities for process and product improvement (e.g. internal tooling, mitigation processes, etc) that reduce the time needed to identify and action a threat

- Rigorously document research, analyses, and threat mitigations to build visibility and auditability of work

- Experiment! Try new methods of identifying threats. Test out new tooling. If you have ideas, we want you to test them out.

Who you are:

- You have a good sense of ownership which drives you to find ways to do things better, faster, and leaner; you hold yourself accountable for the quality and accuracy of your work

- You ...