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Cracken
About Cracken
Cracken develops a proactive security platform in which AI agents emulate attackers across the full kill chain, showing organizations which attack paths into their infrastructure can actually be exploited. It is recruiting a Malware Researcher (Remote) to analyze samples from commodity threats to APT campaigns, reverse engineer malicious binaries, scripts and documents, and feed that knowledge into its AI agent. The role is remote within Europe.
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Working at Cracken
Cracken was founded in 2023 by CEO Artem Sorokin, is based in San Francisco, and says its team includes operators who defended infrastructure during the war in Ukraine. Its security postings state No salary in its postings (from its own postings).
1 security role open at the last read1 open role at Cracken, confirmed on its careers system 13 Nov 2026.
Full-time remote research role within Europe, supporting the product's threat intelligence.
Europe is the stated region; the researcher works remotely from within it.
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Salaries at Cracken
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Cracken: common questions
What salary does Cracken offer security staff?
No salary in its postings. The malware research posting carries no salary information (12 Nov 2026).
What sort of company is Cracken?
Cracken was founded in 2023 by CEO Artem Sorokin, is based in San Francisco, and says its team includes operators who defended infrastructure during the war in Ukraine.
What is it like to work in security at Cracken?
Its security postings state No salary in its postings (from its own postings). As a security vendor, it hires both defenders for its own estate and specialists who build and sell the product.
What kind of employment are Cracken's security roles?
Full-time remote research role within Europe, supporting the product's threat intelligence.
Where are Cracken's security jobs based?
Europe is the stated region; the researcher works remotely from within it.
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