Description

The Privacy team at Darrow is on a mission to discover egregious privacy violations conducted by the big tech. We are seeking an accomplished and passionate Cyber research engineer to join our data-for-justice revolution.

Not Your Average Role

Imagine arriving at work knowing that you’re not only promoting your career but creating an impact. At Darrow, that’s exactly what you’ll experience. We’re a team of data experts and legal practitioners who deploy data, machine learning, AI and Cyber to monitor the web and discover undetected legal violations. By doing so, we bring them to light and justice — securing compensation for victims and deterring bad actors from wrongdoing. We created an open, action-based culture unlike any other, based on the shared values of creating an impact and making a change. Our mission is about impact at scale, and we provide our team members with access to the resources they need to get the work done.

This is where you come in.

About the role

As a Cyber Research Engineer at Darrow, you will lead our Cyber practice aiming to detect corporations’ misuse of private data, establish cyber research and intelligence infrastructures and research new technologies involving privacy issues across the board (web, mobile, desktop and more).

Who Are You?

You are a highly motivated, resourceful and process-oriented person, ready to put your skills to work. You are a team player, open-minded, and collaborative. You have an entrepreneurial spirit and can make things happen in a fast-paced startup environment. You are ready to leverage your research and development experience in the analytics, advertising or cyber security industries to establish one of the big tech pioneering watch dogs.

Responsibilities

• Leading the development and design of Darrow’s cyber research and intelligence infrastructure, implementing best practice standards, to allow privacy violation detection at scale.
• Developing solutions, scripts and services to automate the violation detection pipeline.
• Research emerging technologies involving potential misuse of private data on the analytics, advertising and cyber security industries.
• Conducting cyber analysis on potentially violating services (network data analysis and reversing).
• Being the professional authority and a source of knowledge on cyber security related matters.
• Guiding and supporting the Privacy legal data team on cyber technology related matters.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.

Requirements

• Minimum of 2 years of professional experience in web or mobile research and development (Experience in both - advantage).
• High proficiency in performing best in class network data analysis and code analysis, on web, desktop or mobile services, including familiarity with best practice tools and methodologies (Burp Suite, Wireshark, Frida etc.)
• Strong programming skills in JavaScript
• Advantage - additional knowledge in TypeScript and Python.
• Ability to simplify and communicate complex technological discoveries and issues to non-tech recipients.
• Advantage - proven experience in the tech aspect of the Marketing (advertising or analytics) industry.