Information Security Researcher jobs in Delhi at CryptoMize are open on a rolling, always-hiring basis — the agency’s threat-intelligence services run on original research, and that research needs hands. This is a full-time, permanent position with immediate joining, based at our New Delhi HQ, inside the research cell that feeds the security function. An Information Security Researcher here performs a wide range of security research tasks: studying the techniques that threaten networks and the data on them, picking apart exploit chains and malicious code, and converting findings into the intelligence our analysts and clients operate on. Below is the complete job description — the research responsibilities, the requirements, the seniority path, and the selection process.
LOCATION New Delhi (HQ)
EMPLOYMENT Full-time · Permanent
AVAILABILITY Immediate · Rolling intake
COMPENSATION Discussed at screening
TRACKS ON THIS DESK25
CRAFT SKILLS NAMED11
TOOLS & SYSTEMS4
PATH STAGES4
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01The actual work
What will you actually do as a Information Security Researcher at CryptoMize?
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Research the threats that target computer networks and the data residing on them — hackers, insiders, malicious code, and the criminal ecosystem behind them
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Analyse vulnerabilities and exploit chains: how attacks actually work, not how the marketing copy says they work
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Design social-engineering detection programs and evaluate the human-vector attacks they must catch
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Oversee auditing and investigating methods used to detect fraud — research that ends in methods the function actually uses
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Track emerging threat actors, campaigns, and technique evolution — the early-warning layer for the agency’s own and its clients’ estates
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Convert research into products: threat profiles, detection guidance, and the intelligence that feeds CryptoMize’s threat-analysis services
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Publish and disclose responsibly — findings reach affected parties and the security community through coordinated disclosure, not ambushes
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Answer the hardest technical questions the function generates: when nobody else can explain a technique, the researcher seat can
ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES
As an Information Security Researcher at CryptoMize you will perform a wide range of information security research tasks — protecting organizations’ computer networks and the data residing on them from unauthorized access by hackers, mischievous insiders, and malicious software code. The work is original: new techniques are studied as they appear, not after they are trending.
The production duty is continuous: research here becomes threat profiles, detection guidance, and the intelligence that feeds the agency’s threat-analysis and cyber-threat-intelligence services. A finding that stays in a notebook is a hobby; a finding the SOC can act on is the job.
Disclosure discipline carries equal weight: vulnerabilities and attack techniques are handled through coordinated disclosure — affected parties and the security community informed in order, with exploit material held until patches land. The agency’s clients buy discretion as much as skill, and the researcher seat is where that discretion is tested hardest.
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02Capability profile
What skills and tools does a Information Security Researcher need?
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Craft skills11 Tools & systems4 Offer standards4
Threat research discipline — actors, campaigns, and technique evolutionVulnerability and exploit-chain analysisMalicious code analysis at depthSocial-engineering attack research and detection designFraud auditing and investigation methodsReverse-engineering persistence and obfuscationCoordinated disclosure ethics (non-negotiable)Technical writing that turns findings into usable intelligencePattern memory across threat families and campaignsCollaboration with analysts and engineers who operationalize the workDiscretion with unpublished vulnerability material (non-negotiable)
Ghidra for reverse engineeringWireshark for traffic analysisSandbox environments (Cuckoo-class)CVE/NVD databases and VirusTotal
Depth of demonstrated skill in the specific role disciplineClassification and scope of the client engagement the role supportsUrgency and time-sensitivity of active project requirementsTrack record built across CryptoMize engagements
Also known as: security researcher jobs · threat researcher vacancy · vulnerability researcher openings · malware analyst jobs
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03Seniority ladder
Information Security Researcher — seniority path at CryptoMize
Researchers advance by the intelligence their work produces and the incidents it preempts, not tenure. The ladder below is how the research cell is organized.
Information Security Researcher
Carries assigned research threads — threat families, vulnerabilities, and detection approaches — producing intelligence the function uses.
1/4
Senior Security Researcher
Leads the harder research programs, reviews findings for the cell, and mentors researchers beneath.
2/4
Threat Intelligence Lead
Owns the intelligence product across the portfolio — what gets researched, how it is graded, and who it reaches.
3/4
Principal Researcher track
The deep-craft route: researchers whose names carry weight in the field, anchoring the agency’s research reputation.
4/4
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04The engagement surface
CryptoMize work a Information Security Researcher touches
Every role plugs into live engagements across the five Penta-P domains — these are the services your work feeds.
Information Security Researcher · Job Opening
This seat plugs into 7 live CryptoMize services across the five Penta-P domains — the work below is where yours lands.
7 SERVICESPENTA-P
Cyber Threat Intelligence
Threat Analysis
Counter Intelligence
OSINT
Cybersecurity
Defense Intelligence
Tactical Intelligence
WHAT DOES INFORMATION SECURITY RESEARCHER COMPENSATION DEPEND ON?
Compensation is discussed during screening — never a fixed public figure, because it varies per person and per engagement. It depends on:
# OFFER CONSTRUCTION FACTOR
01 Depth of demonstrated skill in the specific role discipline
02 Classification and scope of the client engagement the role supports
03 Urgency and time-sensitivity of active project requirements
04 Track record built across CryptoMize engagements
