Intern - Security Research Engineer (WildFire Detection)

Company Description

You must have the authorization to work within the United States

Our Mission

At Palo Alto Networks® everything starts and ends with our mission:

Being the cybersecurity partner of choice, protecting our digital way of life.

We have the vision of a world where each day is safer and more secure than the one before. These aren’t easy goals to accomplish – but we’re not here for easy. We’re here for better. We are a company built on the foundation of challenging and disrupting the way things are done, and we’re looking for innovators who are as committed to shaping the future of cybersecurity as we are.

We’re changing the nature of work. Palo Alto Networks is evolving to meet the needs of our employees now and in the future through FLEXWORK, our approach to how we work. From benefits to learning, location to leadership, we’ve rethought and recreated every aspect of the employee experience at Palo Alto Networks.  And because it FLEXes around each individual employee based on their individual choices, employees are empowered to push boundaries and help us all evolve, together.

Job Description

Your Career

The WildFire detection team is responsible for delivering high quality and state of art malware detection capabilities. We are looking for a motivated, intelligent, hardworking and creative intern to join the team as a Security Research Engineer. As a member of the WildFire team, you will be able to conceive, design, implement and evaluate systems to detect and prevent various threats in the emerging security landscape.

Our Summer Internship Program from May-August or June-September provides you:

• 1:1 mentorship
• Fun and engaging events that inspire your intellectual curiosity
• Opportunities to expand your knowledge and work on challenging projects
• Connections to other interns, recent grads, and employees across the company as well as our leaders

Your Impact

• Track and research emerging malware families and innovate new ways to identify malicious behaviors
• Opportunity to learn, analyze and identify real word malicious campaigns and modern malware samples
• Gain hands-on experience with scalable and extensible detection/prevention systems to protect customers around the globe 
• Leverage data-driven approaches, such as statistical analysis, machine learning, deep learning and other advanced techniques
• Convert research results and discoveries into real-impact innovative solutions

Qualifications

Your Experience

• Creative thinker and team player with a passion for data-driven security research, and building high quality, complex systems as a part of an incredible research team
• Hands-on experience with malware analysis & detection, familiar with reverse engineering process
• Strong programming, engineering skills and ability to quickly learn and adapt to new programming languages and technologies
• Good knowledge of machine learning models and experience in data driven approaches
• Experience with program analysis is a big plus
• Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP or AWS and open source technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes and Gitlab is a plus
• Be comfortable working independently, efficiently
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills
• Proven success (past publication record, open source project contributions) is a big plus

To apply, you must be pursuing a 4-year Undergraduate Degree, a 2-year Master’s Degree or a Doctorate degree and returning to school in the fall.

Additional Information

The Team

To stay ahead of the curve, it’s critical to know where the curve is, and how to anticipate the changes we’re facing. For the fastest-growing cybersecurity company, the curve is the evolution of cyberattacks and the products and services that proactively address them. Our engineering team is at the core of our products – connected directly to the mission of preventing cyberattacks. They are constantly innovating – challenging the way we, and the industry, think about cybersecurity. These engineers aren’t shy about creating products to solve problems no one has tackled before. They define the industry, instead of waiting for directions. We need individuals who feel comfortable in ambiguity, excited by the prospect of challenge, and empowered by the unknown risks facing our everyday lives that are only enabled by a secure digital environment.

Our engineering team is provided with an unrivaled opportunity to build the products and practices that will support our company growth over the next decade, defining the cybersecurity industry as we know it. If you see the potential of how incredible people products can transform a business, this is the team for you. If you don’t wait for directions, instead, identifying new features and opportunities we have to just get better, this is your new career

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.

We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for all qualified individuals with a disability. If you require assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need, please contact us at accommodations@paloaltonetworks.com. 

Palo Alto Networks is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity in our workplace, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or other legally protected characteristics.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

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