Principal Threat Intelligence Engineer - Emerging Technologies (Remote)

Company Description

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas - immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at Follow @abbvie on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.

Job Description

The Principal Engineer ("Principal") is a key technical leader within the Research, Active Measures & Emerging Technologies (RAM-ET) team, a senior group of technology specialists supporting AbbVie's Information Security mission across multiple security domains. This role requires an individual who can balance deep technical expertise with strategic thinking, while maintaining strong relationships across the security community and driving innovation in emerging technologies

This position can be virtually anywhere in the U.S.

The RAM-ET team operates at the intersection of threat intelligence, adversary engagement, and emerging technology innovation. This role requires an exceptional individual who can drive innovation while maintaining deep expertise in traditional security domains and emerging technologies, particularly AI/ML applications in cybersecurity.

The Principal serves three critical functions:

• Drive privileged threat intelligence sharing and security research initiatives, building and maintaining crucial relationships with researchers, journalists, law enforcement, and government entities
• Lead Active Measures capabilities, including counterintelligence
• Spearhead innovation and research in emerging technologies, producing strategic guidance, technical demonstrations, PoC implementations, and educational content for various audiences

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Emerging Technologies Leadership

• Participate in development (collect, contextualize, report) of the quarterly emerging technologies reporting, analyzing security technology landscape across three time frames: current, horizon, and over-horizon
• Author position papers on emerging technologies to drive policy, architecture, and governance decisions, focused on controlling the risks the matter, and enabling quick and safe adoption of emerging tech
• Participate in design and delivery of executive training sessions on emerging technology impacts
• Participate in development and delivery of technical workshops driving understanding and adoption of emerging tech within ISRM
• Maintain and expand the emerging technologies cookbook and knowledge repository
• Independently develop on-demand strategic content packages for executive communications on emerging tech topics
• Lead experimentation and demonstration of emerging capabilities, particularly in AI/ML applications

Threat Intelligence & Active Measures

• Drive unique, actionable threat intelligence collection through privileged information sharing networks
• Design and implement counter-threat intelligence operations with appropriate oversight
• Lead adversary engagement and disruption initiatives
• Maintain darknet presence and non-attributable capabilities
• Provide rapid response and support during critical world events
• Extend CTI capabilities to critical third parties through consulting and special projects

Industry Leadership

• Drive industry-wide security initiatives through leadership roles in organizations like OWASP, OASIS, and similar industry and vertical organizations
• Lead or contribute significantly to industry standards development
• Demonstrate thought leadership through technical publications and framework creation
• Lead initiatives in emerging domains (e.g., AI/ML security, CTI frameworks

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree with 8 years experience; Master's Degree with 7 years experience; PhD with 3 years experience. Experience in application program development and information security across multiple domains required.
• Demonstrated expertise in emerging technologies, particularly AI/ML applications in cybersecurity
• Proven track record of driving innovation and research initiatives in enterprise security
• Strong background in adversary engagement and darknet operations
• Expert-level programming abilities with demonstrated full-stack development experience
• Knowledge of contributions to industry standards, frameworks, and best practices
• AI/ML knowledge, including experience with tools like TensorFlow, PyTorch and Keras
• Expertise in detection engineering
• Proficiency with treat intelligence platforms, processes, methods and outputs
• Experience with security automation and orchestration
• Deep understanding of adversary infrastructure and TTPs
• Experience delivering executive-level training and briefings
• Strong technical writing abilitities for position papers and strategic documentation
• Proven track record of mentoring technical teams
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts for various audiences
• Experience leading cross-functional security inititatives
• This role requires an individual who can balance deep technical expertise with strategic thinking, while maintaining strong relationships across the security community and driving innovation in emerging technologies

Additional Information

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our short-term incentive programs.
• This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs

Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, incentive, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole and absolute discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company's sole and absolute discretion, consistent with applicable law.

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives, serving our community and embracing diversity and inclusion. It is AbbVie's policy to employ qualified persons of the greatest ability without discrimination against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy), physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, marital status, status as a protected veteran, or any other legally protected group status.

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