Principal Threat Hunter (Unit 42)

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Principal Threat Intelligence Hunter - Unit 42 Managed Threat Hunting
Job Description Summary

The Principal Threat Intelligence Hunter will sit within Unit 42 Managed Threat Hunting and support proactive, intelligence-led hunting across customer environments. This role combines hands-on threat hunting with cyber threat intelligence analysis, helping multinational organizations stay one step ahead of adversaries and cyber threats.

The Cyber Threat Intelligence Hunter will analyze public and private threat intelligence, Unit 42 research, adversary campaigns, malware activity, infrastructure, indicators, and TTPs, then translate that intelligence into actionable hunting hypotheses, investigation workflows, hunting queries, and customer-facing findings.

This role will work across large-scale customer telemetry to investigate suspicious activity, validate emerging threats, support scheduled hunts, and contribute to timely, professional reporting. The role will also collaborate closely with threat hunters, detection engineers, incident responders, MDR teams, and Unit 42 intelligence and security researchers to operationalize intelligence quickly and improve hunting outcomes across the service.

This is a proactive, research-driven hunting role for someone who can connect external intelligence with real-world telemetry, understand and fingerprint attacker behavior, investigate security data, and clearly communicate findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Your Impact

Help multinational organizations stay one step ahead of adversaries and cyber threats.

Serve as a key contributor within Unit 42 Managed Threat Hunting , combining hands-on threat hunting execution with cyber threat intelligence analysis.

Analyze public and private threat intelligence, Unit 42 research, adversary campaigns, malware activity, infrastructure, indicators, and TTPs.

Translate threat intelligence into actionable hunting hypotheses, investigation workflows, hunting queries, and customer-facing findings.

Execute existing threat hunting reports and hunting workflows, investigate results, and support timely customer reporting.

Investigate scheduled hunt detections and compose clear, professional reports when relevant.

Investigate hunting leads based on IOCs, threat intelligence, internal detections, customer telemetry, and emerging adversary behaviors.

Monitor the threat landscape and prepare initial context for emerging campaigns, enabling the global team to continue deeper investigation and hunting.

Collaborate with threat hunters, detection engineers, incident responders, MDR, and Unit 42 researchers to operationalize intelligence quickly and effectively.

Escalate major, unclear, or high-impact secu