Staff Threat Hunter
Company Overview: TENEX is an AI-native, automation-first, built-for-scale Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider. We are a force multiplier for defenders, helping organizations enhance their cybersecurity posture through advanced threat detection, rapid response, and continuous protection. Our team is composed of industry experts with deep experience in cybersecurity, automation and AI-driven solutions. Backed by leading investors, we are rapidly growing and seeking top talent to join our mission of revolutionizing the AI-Native MDR landscape.
We're a fast growing startup backed by industry experts and top tier investors led by Crosspoint Capital Partners and also backed by Shield Capital, DTCP (formerly Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners), Deepwork Capital, and the Florida Opportunity Fund. Seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). As an early employee, you'll play a meaningful role in defining and building our culture. Get in on the ground floor. We're a small but well-funded team that just raised a substantial round – joining now comes with limited risk and unlimited upside.
Culture is one of the most important things at TENEX.AI our culture deck at culture.tenex.ai to witness how we embody it, prioritizing the irreplaceable collaboration and community of in-person work.
About the Opportunity: As Staff Threat Hunter, you'll own how TENEX hunts — the methodology, the tooling, the hypotheses, and the conversion of hunt findings into production detections. You'll work across multi-tenant MDR telemetry in Google SecOps / Chronicle, partnering with detection engineering to close the gaps automated alerting misses. This is a senior IC role — you set the technical direction for how hunting works at TENEX. Reports to the VP, Security.
What You'll Do:
- Lead proactive, hypothesis-driven hunts. Run investigations across SIEM, EDR, network, and identity telemetry to surface the threats automated detection m...