Senior Malware Analyst
The full posting
With 1,000+ intelligence professionals serving over 1,900 clients worldwide, Recorded Future is the world’s most advanced, and largest, intelligence company!
Join the team behind Recorded Future’s Triage malware analysis sandbox. As a Senior Malware Analyst, you'll analyze the latest malware samples and implement new signatures, YARA rules, and features in Recorded Future's state-of-the-art malware analysis sandbox. Your research will become operational intelligence and detection coverage used by security teams worldwide. Check out our free public version ( https://tria.ge ) to get a taste of what we're building.
What You'll Do
- Triage and investigate samples surfaced by the sandbox to discover new and emerging malware families.
- Perform static and dynamic analysis of malicious samples across Windows, macOS, and/or Android platforms.
- Write and maintain YARA rules to reliably detect malware families and variants.
- Develop and maintain configuration extractors to pull actionable intelligence (C2 servers, campaign IDs, encryption keys, etc.) from malware samples.
- Validate and tune detections to minimize false positives.
- Improve analysis methodology and tooling.
- Influence sandbox features based on malware research.
What You'll Bring
- Solid understanding of how sandbox systems work (behavioral analysis, hooking, monitoring, evasion detection, etc.)
- Strong knowledge of internals of Windows, Android, or macOS (multiple is a plus) - process/memory model, file formats, APIs, OS-level mechanisms abused by malware.
- Practical experience writing YARA rules, behavioral detection, and config extractors.
- Strong skills in Assembly language
- Comfortable working asynchronously and independently.
- Familiarity with the Go programming language
- Prior experience contributing to public or private detection rule sets
Why should you join Recorded Future?Recorded Future employees (or “Futurists”), represent over 40 nationalities and embody our core values of having high standards, practicing inclusion, and acting ethically. Our dedication to empowering clients with intelligence to disrupt adversaries has earned us a 4.6-star user rating on G2 and more than 50% of Fortune 100 companies as customers.
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Recorded Future will not discharge, discipline or in any other manner discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because such employee or applicant has inquired about, discussed, or disclosed the compensation of the employee or applicant or another employee or applicant.
Recorded Future does not administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. This is in compliance with the law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and in alignment with our hiring practices across all jurisdictions.
Recorded Future maintains a drug-free workplace.
Note:Our interview process for all final-round candidates requires a mandatory in-person interview or a live, scheduled video conference with the hiring manager. We do not conduct interviews via instant messaging or text. All communications during the application process will come from individuals within our HR department via their Recorded Future email address.
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Where you can work
This role is 100% remote, for applicants located in Sweden.
Text as Recorded Future published it; last compared with the original on 11 Nov 2026.
The application
Your details and CV, then 12 questions (6 written).
- 1.Do you have experience working on our platform?Yes or no
- 2.How would you rate your practical experience of x86/x64 Assembly and malware reverse engineering?Pick one: Beginner · Intermediate · Strong · Expert
- 3.How would you rate your practical experience debugging and dynamically analyzing suspicious or malicious binaries/files?Pick one: Beginner · Intermediate · Strong · Expert
- 4.How would you rate your experience creating malware detections, including YARA rules and behavioral-based detections?Pick one: Beginner · Intermediate · Strong · Expert
- 5.How would you rate your experience using threat intelligence in malware analysis, including researching malware families, IOCs, TTPs, infrastructure, and related campaigns?Pick one: Beginner · Intermediate · Strong · Expert
- 6.Do you require, now or in the future, visa sponsorship or support to work in the country you currently reside in?Yes or no
- 7.Do you have a close personal relationship with a current Mastercard or Recorded Future employee?Written answer
- 8.Are you currently engaged in any outside employment or activity that you would like to continue if you are hired by Recorded Future?Written answer
- 9.In your current role, do you engage with Mastercard or Recorded Future employees to negotiate, influence and/or sign commercial contracts or government contracts?Written answer
- 10.Are you related to anyone who has the authority to influence and/or sign commercial contracts or government contracts with Mastercard or Recorded Future?Written answer
- 11.Are you or were you recently (in the last six months) an employee of a government office or agency that has oversight over Mastercard or Recorded Future?Written answer
- 12.Are you related to anyone who is an employee of a government office or agency that has oversight over Mastercard or Recorded Future?Written answer
Taken from Recorded Future's application form as it stood on 11 Nov 2026.
The employer: Recorded Future
Recorded Future collects and analyzes threat data for security teams and governments; it is hiring malware and threat intelligence analysts and a cloud security engineer.
Pay and benefits: Gothenburg, London and US jobs at a Mastercard-owned company.
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