About the Role:
Oak’s Research is where deep security expertise becomes product. We translate how identity is weaponized and becomes an attack path - across human, machine, and AI agent identities - into the risk models and security content that exposes real identity risk inside customer environments. Research here doesn’t end in a slide deck, it ships.
As a Security Researcher, you’ll own and evolve the core of the Oak platform: the frameworks and logics that turn fragmented, cross-surface identity data into precise, high-signal insight. You’ll work directly with real-world data to find emerging attack patterns, reason about privilege and exposure, and convert what you learn into intelligence that tells customers what’s actually risky - and what to do about it.
Identity is also the fastest-moving attack surface in the enterprise right now. The explosion of non-human identities and autonomous AI agents is rewriting what “who has access to what” even means, and you’ll be at the front of it — defining how Oak discovers, scores, governs and secures these identities before the rest of the market has a vocabulary for the risk.
You’ll also shape Oak’s voice in the field. Through original research, published findings, and technical thought leadership, you’ll influence how practitioners and analysts understand identity risk as the perimeter dissolves.