Description
About the position
ActiveFence is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Senior Intelligence Researcher to join our dynamic team. In this role, you will play a crucial part in supporting our analysis efforts and collaborating on key projects with our strategic clients. You will be responsible for conducting in-depth analysis of intelligence data, writing comprehensive reports, and presenting valuable insights to customers.
- Conduct open-source intelligence investigations and produce reports on a wide range of research topics and abuse areas relating to trust and safety intelligence and fraud ecosystems
- Collect intelligence on and analyze T&S policy landscape, industry trends, harmful content, and threat actor TTPs.
- Conduct investigations and identify fraud methods across web and mobile platforms (social media, forums, apps, and the darknet)
- Analyze large data sets, identify adversarial operations, detect threat actor indicators and signals, and provide meaningful insights for in-depth reports.
- Monitor third-party websites, forums, messaging app channels, and more to uncover malicious activities and fraud risks
- Assist additional intelligence teams in better understanding our customers’ needs by tracking their pain points, following industry trends, and communicating their needs
Requirements
Must Have
- Extensive WEBINT / OSINT experience (4+ years)
- Fraud detection; Experience in conducting red team exercises on online platforms to uncover potential abuse methods and bypass mechanisms (4+ years)
- Understanding of OPSEC principles
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Native-level spoken and written English
- Experience in presenting complex insights to customers
- Intelligence/Research Background
Nice to have:
- Autonomy; A proactive and independent thinker and doer.
- A quick learner of new practice areas and technological tools.
- Tons of curiosity.
- A methodological and innovative approach to the art of web intelligence.
- Experience with at least 2 languages – an advantage.
- Excellent Excel/Google Sheets skills.
About ActiveFence
ActiveFence is the leading provider of security and safety solutions for online experiences, safeguarding more than 3 billion users, top foundation models, and the world’s largest enterprises and tech platforms every day. As a trusted ally to major technology firms and Fortune 500 brands that build user-generated and GenAI products, ActiveFence empowers security, AI, and policy teams with low-latency Real-Time Guardrails and a continuous Red Teaming program that pressure-tests systems with adversarial prompts and emerging threat techniques. Powered by deep threat intelligence, unmatched harmful-content detection, and coverage of 117+ languages, ActiveFence enables organizations to deliver engaging and trustworthy experiences at global scale while operating safely and responsibly across all threat landscapes.