Security Research Engineer

Description

Hypernative is the proactive onchain security platform for enterprises and institutions. We build the security infrastructure that lets organizations operate and scale onchain with confidence, unifying real-time monitoring, transaction security, fraud prevention, compliance screening, and automated response in a single, institutional-grade platform.

Our technical teams build and run the industry’s most battle-tested machine learning models and real-time infrastructure, resulting in detection engines that have actively prevented over $3 billion in losses across 75+ blockchains.

Founded in 2023, Hypernative raised a $40M Series B and has secured $100B+ in digital assets across 350+ leading organizations, including top financial institutions, exchanges, asset managers, protocols, and chains.

We're looking for a Security Research Engineer. You will investigate emerging blockchain threats, vulnerabilities, and attack vectors across smart contracts, protocols, economic systems, and off-chain infrastructure. You will analyze real-world attacks as they unfold and turn your research into detection and prevention capabilities that help protect users, protocols, and digital assets from high-impact security incidents.

Responsibilities:

• Develop heuristics, rule sets, models, and research-driven logic that enhance Hypernative’s real-time threat detection engine.
• Conduct deep research into blockchain protocols, smart contracts, bridges, and DeFi mechanisms to uncover new threat patterns and exploitation techniques.
• Research real-world exploits and adversarial behaviors across Web3, transforming insights into practical detection & prevention opportunities.
• Develop tools and contribute to our system development to detect and mitigate security risks in real time.
• Identify and analyze Web3 security vulnerabilities. As the owner of significant segments of our technical development, you will define and shape our Web3 security products, ensuring they meet the highest standards of security and efficiency.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on security research with a proven ability to find, understand, and explain complex vulnerabilities.
• Proven multi-year Experience in System building with Python, OOP, and SOLID principles, including contribution to production grade code
• Excellent analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work collaboratively in an ultra-fast-paced environment.

Advantages:

• Good understanding of the Ethereum Virtual Machine, experience with smart contract development, and familiarity with common smart contract vulnerabilities and blockchain security concepts - a strong advantage.
• Familiarity with advanced concepts in Trading/ Finance - a strong advantage.
• Experience with Cloud development with emphasis on AWS infrastructure.
• B.Sc. in Computer Science or equivalent.