Senior Security Researcher

Chainalysis is building the data, intelligence, and technology that enable organizations to investigate and prevent crypto-related crime. Our teams combine deep blockchain expertise with advanced technology to help make the digital asset ecosystem safer and more trusted.

This team is a small, highly technical group focused on exploring emerging threats and technologies, turning insights into practical solutions, and bringing new ideas from early concepts through production.

We are looking for a talented Researcher who is excited by new and emerging technologies and can help move the organization forward by developing new capabilities, from design and proof of concept through production.

The position is office-based in Tel Aviv.

In this job, you'll:

- Design, implement, and improve threat detection models and frameworks

- Be an expert on bleeding-edge web3 technologies

- Write excellent code and be an integral part of engineering efforts

- Solve sophisticated technical problems and "make hard things work"

- Work in a small, agile, fast-moving team that is best in class

We’re looking for candidates who have:

- Proven experience in research in highly technical environments / low level R&D

- Ability to excel in a dynamic environment with rapidly changing requirements

- Previous experience in software development or R&D style teams

Nice to have experience:

- Blockchain prior experience / interest

- Experience with Python, Go, or Rust

- Experience with classic data science / machine learning

- Experience with building agentic LLM-powered products

Technologies we use:

- Python

- Go

- Rust

- Agentic workflows