Threat Intelligence / Reverse Engineering Investigator

Adobe, San Jose +2

Overview

The Threat Intelligence / Reverse Engineering Investigator identifies, investigates, and disrupts fraud, abuse, and adversarial activity targeting Adobe's products, services, and ecosystem. Through threat intelligence, reverse engineering, technical investigations, detection engineering, and AI-driven capabilities, the team delivers actionable intelligence and scalable mitigations that strengthen platform resilience and protect Adobe, its customers, and its ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities & Areas of Impact – The responsibilities below represent the primary areas of focus for this role and may evolve alongside emerging risks, business priorities, and organizational needs.

What you need

Reverse Engineering, Investigations & Detection

Reverse engineer and analyze malicious tooling, automation frameworks, browser extensions, attack infrastructure, and other mechanisms used to target or abuse Adobe services, documenting attacker methodologies and identifying opportunities for disruption.
Evaluate emerging technologies, including AI-enabled attack techniques, adversarial tooling, and automation frameworks, to identify evolving threats and develop scalable detection and mitigation strategies.
Conduct complex technical investigations into fraud, abuse, account compromise, platform misuse, and other malicious activity, including escalation analysis, attribution, root cause determination, and identification of coordinated threat activity.
Discover exploited or potential vulnerabilities and partner with stakeholders to develop mitigation strategies, remediation plans, and long-term risk reduction approaches.
Translate intelligence and investigative findings into scalable detection, monitoring, prevention, and enforcement capabilities.
Develop and maintain investigative methodologies, detection workflows, and operational processes that support effective threat detection, analysis, and response.
Strategic Collaboration & Influence
Partner with Product, Security, Engineering, Data Science, Risk, Trust & Safety, and other stakeholders to mitigate threats, improve platform resilience, and strengthen customer protection.
Support incident response and emerging threat investigations by providing intelligence, attribution analysis, investigative expertise, and strategic guidance.
Develop executive-ready briefings, investigative summaries, and risk assessments that communicate findings, business impact, and strategic recommendations.
Advise stakeholders on intelligence-driven risk mitigation, fraud prevention, abuse prevention, and vulnerability management strategies.
Serve as a subject matter expert on adversarial behavior, emerging threats, and fraud trends, helping inform long-term threat reduction and platform protection strategies.

Threat Intelligence / Reverse Engineering Investigator

Overview

What you need

Threat Intelligence / Reverse Engineering Investigator

Overview

What you need

Threat Intelligence & Adversary Research

Reverse Engineering, Investigations & Detection

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Expected Pay Range

Fair Chance Ordinances

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