[All remote jobs](https://jobicy.com/jobs.md)[![Huntress logo](https://jobicy.com/data/server-nyc0409/galaxy/mercury/2025/06/91eae3ae-221.jpg)](https://jobicy.com/company/huntress.md)[Huntress](https://jobicy.com/company/huntress.md) # Senior Phishing Tradecraft Researcher Review the role, location requirements, compensation details, and application process before deciding whether this opportunity fits your next career move. [Apply for this job](#job-application)[View company](https://jobicy.com/company/huntress.md)ShareRemote from[USA](https://jobicy.com/job-region/usa.md)SalaryUSD 170k–185k / yrDepartment[Cybersecurity](https://jobicy.com/categories/cybersecurity.md)EmploymentFull TimeExperienceDirectorPublished27 Oct 2026Apply before26 Nov 2026Listing views65Application actions3Application toolkit ## Make your next move. Prepare your resume, explore your fit, and draft a cover letter for this opportunity. AI Summary ## The role, at a glance. Huntress is seeking a senior cybersecurity researcher to lead and expand its security-awareness phishing simulation program for US-based remote work. The role combines phishing tradecraft research, social-engineering analysis, incident triage, e-learning content development, and threat communications. The researcher will create highly realistic phishing emails and landing pages, build automation and AI-enabled content workflows, and translate emerging attacker techniques into training experiences. Success requires strong front-end implementation skills, rigorous attention to detail, and the ability to communicate threat insights to learners, product stakeholders, and executive audiences. ## Role DNA A quick view of the complexity, pace, ownership and collaboration implied by the job description. ### Job Complexity 5/5EasyHard ### Pace & Pressure 5/5RelaxedFast-paced ### Autonomy Level 4/5GuidedFull ownership ### Communication Load 5/5IndependentCollaborative AI insightThis is a highly specialized senior role requiring deep phishing and social-engineering expertise alongside hands-on HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and modern AI-tooling capability. The work carries tight delivery expectations and demands accurate translation of fast-changing threat tradecraft into effective educational content. ## Salary analysis Estimated compensation compared with the broader US market for similar roles. Estimated job median (per year)Market rate$177,500US market range (per year)$165k–$205k0$225.50k AI insightThe yearly pay period is inferred from the job context; it was not explicitly stated by the employer. The employer discloses a base compensation range of USD 170,000–185,000, plus bonus and equity. The posting does not explicitly state a cadence, so yearly pay is inferred from the range, US location, seniority, and full-time professional-role context. Estimated US market base pay for a senior phishing tradecraft and security-awareness researcher is USD 165,000–205,000 per year. ## Core skills Skills and capabilities most closely associated with this opportunity. 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I would then build a safe simulation that reproduces the meaningful decision points without enabling harmful behavior, pair it with clear coaching, and measure results to refine the training. What makes a phishing simulation realistic while remaining responsible and effective for learners? Realism comes from accurate visual design, believable context, appropriate timing, and authentic social-engineering cues. Responsibility requires avoiding unnecessary fear or deception, protecting learner data, providing immediate educational feedback, and ensuring the scenario teaches a transferable defensive behavior. Describe how you would use HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build a pixel-accurate phishing simulation landing page. I would begin by defining the interaction flow and the learning objective, then implement a responsive static layout with semantic HTML and precise CSS. JavaScript would capture only the simulation events needed for analytics, such as link interaction or form attempts, while ensuring no credentials are collected or transmitted. How do you identify and prioritize emerging phishing tradecraft for a training program? I monitor incident reports, reported messages, threat intelligence, sender and URL patterns, public research, and customer-facing trends. I prioritize techniques by prevalence, potential impact, novelty, relevance to the learner population, and whether the scenario teaches a high-value defensive habit. How would you communicate phishing-trend findings to both executives and technical security teams? For executives, I would summarize business risk, trend direction, affected populations, and recommended actions in concise language supported by measurable outcomes. For technical teams, I would provide the underlying indicators, attack flow, detection opportunities, simulation design implications, and evidence supporting the assessment. Opportunity details ## About this role. What We Do: Cybercrime is growing, and more businesses are getting hit by threats that used to target only the biggest organizations. That pushes defenders like us to operate at the highest level, and it deepens our need for good people who want to make a meaningful impact. Founded in 2015 by former NSA cyber operators, Huntress is a remote-first team working to make enterprise-grade cybersecurity accessible to businesses of all sizes. We work closely with security teams and service providers protecting complex environments, often without the time or headcount to handle it all. That’s why we build our technology in-house and back it with a 24/7 human-led Security Operations Center (SOC). As a result, our platform is never disconnected from the experts who manage it, ensuring our customers’ protection. Huntress now secures more than 6M endpoints and 16M identities worldwide. Those numbers keep growing because more businesses rely on us to help carry the load and operate with more confidence. Every day, you can see that commitment in how we stand with our customers and how we show up for each other. Reports to: Manager, Product Research Location: Remote US Compensation Range: $170,000.00 to $185,000.00 base plus bonus and equity What You’ll Do: Do you like getting into the weeds on all things technical, psychological, and educational, and have a desire to know how things work? Then this is the position for you. We are looking for that Swiss Army Knife that brings broad experience to each challenge presented. The Huntress Product team has the unique honor of waking up every morning knowing we’re going to make hackers regret targeting our partners and customers. As a Senior Product Researcher for our Security Awareness Training product, we’re looking for someone who wants to pour all of their creativity into building and implementing simple solutions that are disproportionately effective at countering these constantly evolving threats. One should have experience managing, deploying, and securing SMB environments utilizing a wide variety of security software, best practices, and automation tools. Familiarity with product management, incident response, social engineering, psychology, education, and managed service provider tools is an additional way to differentiate yourself. Responsibilities: * Operate a proven industry-leading Security Awareness Training phishing program. * Be the security expert designing and building phishing scenario emails & landing pages that simulate real cyber attacks for thousands of SAT learners. Every simulation is paired with coaching that shows learners the social engineering tells, how the learner can develop skills to identify social engineering tradecraft, the indicators, like hovering a link before clicking or receiving an unexpected email. Craft a growing library of common indicators and write new ones when a scenario calls for it. * Comfortable scripting and coding to build proofs-of-concept and tooling with a keen eye for creating pixel-perfect simulated phishing emails & landing pages using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, & React. Take pride in delivering simulations impossible to distinguish from real tradecraft. The details are the job. * Identify emerging social engineering tradecraft from attack patterns, email metadata, and web expertise. Today ClickFix attacks and variants dominate the threat landscape, but relentless hunger to get ahead of attacker tradecraft will mean translating the shifts in attacker tactics that matter into what the program teaches. Evolve deliverables with the tradecraft. * Automate by default, evolving + expanding phishing content generation as an AI-powered system using Claude Code. * Expand the program into new regions, more languages, more tailored content, and new kinds of learning experiences with the guidance of the Product Manager and Principal Product Researcher. * Triage reported phishing emails, internal and external security incidents surfacing threat insights and trend analysis in the Huntress Threat Report, threat advisories, social media engagements, webinars & conference talks, resulting in strategic security awareness outreach campaigns. * Align with the Principal Researcher to deliver unified Security Awareness Training and phishing program outcomes. * Proven organizational and project management skills, with a keen attention to detail and sense of urgency to deliver an exceptional product under tight deadline pressures. * Eagerness to engage, report, and be accountable to executive stakeholders. * Passion to translate your expertise in technical & nontechnical ways to deliver impactful security outcomes that protect the 99%. What You Bring To The Team: * Proficiency with HTML, CSS, Javascript & React, Angular, or Vue * Proficiency with Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor with impressive projects to prove it * Experience in manually building phishing simulation deliverables like emails and landing pages, simulating phishing attacks, then analyzing & reporting simulation results * Experience triaging reported phishing emails, security incidents, and identifying trends + patterns * Experience in analyzing, tracking, and defending against phishing attacks * Experience identifying emerging tradecraft * Social engineering experience, coursework, training, certifications * Experience innovating training content * Experience with eLearning design and development * Experience developing marketing content for social media, YouTube, blogs & reports * Spanish language skills desired, but not required What We Offer: * 100% remote work environment – since our founding in 2015 * Generous paid time off policy, including vacation, sick time, and paid holidays * 12 weeks of paid parental leave * Highly competitive and comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits plans * 401(k) with a 5% contribution regardless of employee contribution * Life and Disability insurance plans * Stock options for all full-time employees * One-time $500 reimbursement for building/upgrading home office * Annual allowance for education and professional development assistance * $75 USD/month digital reimbursement * Access to the BetterUp platform for coaching, personal, and professional growth Huntress is committed to creating a culture of inclusivity where every single member of our team is valued, has a voice, and is empowered to come to work every day just as they are. 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