Principal Threat Intelligence Hunter

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 security events to the Threat Hunting leadership team when necessary.

Provide ongoing feedback on findings, hunting reports, queries, intelligence workflows, and operational processes to support continuous improvement.

Contribute to making the world a safer and better place.

Why Choose Us

Perform meaningful, intelligence-led threat hunting across a wide variety of data sources.

Gain hands-on experience translating emerging threat intelligence into real hunting outcomes across customer environments.

Work across multiple cybersecurity domains, including endpoint, network, cloud, identity, and third-party vendor telemetry.

Learn how threat intelligence is converted into hypotheses, queries, investigations, validations, and customer-facing reports.

Join a global team of experts who handle threats and adversaries at scale every day.

Collaborate closely with Unit 42 researchers, incident responders, detection engineers, MDR teams, and experienced threat hunters.

Help improve how threat intelligence is operationalized across a managed service.

Take part in the continuous improvement of hunting reports, queries, workflows, automation, AI-driven hunting capabilities, and operational processes.

We believe in automation, AI, intelligence-led hunting, and scalable security outcomes.

• 6+ years of experience in tactical threat hunting, cyber threat intelligence (CTI), DFIR, or advanced security operations.
• Strong background in tactical threat intelligence, specifically identifying the discrete traces, artifacts, and behavioral fingerprints left by adversaries across diverse telemetry sources (endpoint, network, cloud, and identity).
• Experience capturing and modelling incident data to map out intrusions and understand attacker behaviours.
• Proven ability to develop & deliver verbal & written technical findings of attacker behaviour into clear, high-impact notifications for customers.
• Experience translating threat intelligence into high-fidelity hunting hypotheses, detection logic, and log-based queries.
• Bonus Points: Experience in an Incident Response or Managed Services environment, proficiency in Python and SQL, or familiarity with malware analysis, published security blogs or research that shows a deep understanding of a particular threat.

The compensation offered for this position will depend on qualifications, experience, and work location. For candidates who receive an offer at the posted level, the starting base salary (for non-sales roles) or base salary + commission target (for sales/com-missioned roles) is expected to be the annual range listed below. The offered compensation may also include restricted stock units and a bonus. A description of our employee benefits may be found here.

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Our Commitment

We’re trailblazers that dream big, take risks, and challenge cybersecurity’s status quo. It’s simple: we can’t accomplish our mission without diverse teams innovating, together.

At Palo Alto Networks®, we’re united by a shared mission-to protect our digital way of life. We thrive at the intersection of innovation and impact, solving real-world problems with cutting-edge technology and bold thinking. Here, everyone has a voice, and every idea counts. If you’re ready to do the most meaningful work of your career alongside people who are just as passionate as you are, you’re in the right place.

Who We Are

In order to be the cybersecurity partner of choice, we must trailblaze the path and shape the future of our industry. This is something our employees work at each day and is defined by our values: Disruption, Collaboration, Execution, Integrity, and Inclusion. We weave AI into the fabric of everything we do and use it to augment the impact every individual can have. If you are passionate about solving real-world problems and ideating beside the best and the brightest, we invite you to join us!

This role is remote, but distance is no barrier to impact. Our hybrid teams collaborate across geographies to solve big problems, stay close to our customers, and grow together. You will be part of a culture that values trust, accountability, and shared success where your work truly matters.