We are hiring a member of the Brave Research team to work on a range of browser security problems. Our goal is to improve the security of Brave, privacy, and anonymity of the end-user of Brave.

As a security researcher at Brave, your responsibilities will include:

• Develop novel ways to block undesirable content in the browser

• Develop ways to prevent client-side fraud, especially when it concerns ad delivery

• Develop novel ways to block malware and other undesirable content

• Develop novel ways to allow extensions to run without compromising user privacy and security

• Develop novel to provide client-side integrity

• Develop machine learning techniques to solve security problems

• Keep abreast of various browser security standards and initiatives

Required qualifications:

• Be intimately familiar with core web technologies and policies, i.e. the same-origin policy and its corner cases, private browsing mode, third-party ad-based tracking, fingerprinting, CSP, CORS, etc.

• Have familiarity with blockchain technologies

• Be comfortable diving into an unfamiliar and complex codebases.

• Be comfortable with measurement work and have a good understanding of experimental methodology around web crawling, etc.

• Proficiency in C++ and JavaScript. At least 5 years of practical work experience is necessary.

• Proficiency working with Git.

• Comfortable working with a geographically-distributed software development team.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience contributing to open source codebases and/or participating in open source communities. Virtually all of our work at Brave is done in the open on Github.

• A working knowledge of JavaScript, HTML, and Node.

• Familiarity with Chromium's architecture.

• Experience auditing C++ code for security and privacy issues.

• Ability to write clear technical documentation.

• Be excited about security, privacy, anonymity, and censorship resistance!

This is a full-time or part-time role, reporting to Brave's Chief Scientist. A Ph.D. is strongly encouraged, but not always required for this role. Desire and demonstrated ability to publish in top-tier academic conferences and journals is a major plus.