# Principal Cyber Investigator

**Company**: TaskUs
**Location**: Remote, USA
**Work arrangement**: remote
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $140,000 - $215,000
**Category**: Security
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

TaskUs partners with pioneering technology companies to build the safety, intelligence, and human-in-the-loop operations powering next-generation artificial intelligence.

As the Principal Cyber Investigator, you will serve as the pod's senior technical authority and operational lead. You will oversee a tiered team of investigators, direct complex actor and campaign-level attribution, recommend high-consequence enforcement actions, and ensure case labels provide high-fidelity training data for automated detection models.

**Responsibilities:**

- Technical Escalations & Adjudication: Act as the final technical authority on the pod for ambiguous, high-severity cyber misuse escalations, customer appeals, and complex actor attribution.

- Investigation Standards: Develop and refine investigative playbooks targeting priority abuse vectors: ransomware, large-scale data exfiltration, local/remote exploits, and offensive cyber operations.

- Team Leadership & Calibration: Lead and mentor a pod of Senior and Junior Investigators; drive regular calibration routines and quality workflows to maintain defensible, consistent determinations across the team.

- Model Feedback & Data Labeling: Deliver precise, highly calibrated case labeling to benchmark, test, and directly improve the accuracy of client automated detection models.

- Campaign & Pattern Analysis: Pivot off isolated telemetry to uncover coordinated adversarial campaigns and emerging threat actor tactics.

- Executive Briefings: Synthesize complex cyber findings into concise, actionable briefings for client safety leadership; advise on emerging adversary tradecraft and program scaling needs.

- External Threat Intelligence: Cultivate working relationships with vetted external threat intelligence and information-sharing communities where client protocols permit.

**Requirements:**

- 9+ years of hands-on experience in cyber threat intelligence (CTI), digital forensics and incident response (DFIR), offensive security, counter-cyber operations, or specialized OSINT investigations.

- Applied Adversary Tradecraft: Deep operational familiarity with the MITRE ATT&CK framework, offensive exploit lifecycles, C2 infrastructures, and ransomware/malware staging.

- Technical Leadership: Proven experience managing, mentoring, or technically directing an investigative unit, threat pod, or SOC escalation tier.

- Pragmatic Judgment: Proven ability to make decisive, reasoned determinations based on partial, noisy, or ambiguous data, with the ability to clearly justify your rationale in writing.

- Cross-Disciplinary Communication: Demonstrated skill translating technical threat mechanics into actionable risk assessments for policy, legal, and engineering counterparts.

- Location & Authorization: Based in the United States with unrestricted work authorization.

**Benefits:**

- Competitive industry salaries

- Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance; 401(k) with company match; and paid time off including vacation, sick leave, and holidays

## Skills

### Required
- MITRE ATT&CK framework
- cyber threat intelligence
- digital forensics
- incident response
- offensive security
- counter-cyber operations
- OSINT investigations
- technical leadership
- pragmatic judgment
- cross-disciplinary communication

### Nice to have
- professional background in military intelligence
- federal law enforcement
- national security cyber units
- U.S. Government Security Clearance
- industry certifications

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