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Incident Response Engineer roles qualify for EB-2 and EB-3 green card sponsorship through PERM labor certification, which requires employers to document that no qualified U.S. worker is available before filing your I-140 petition. Cybersecurity specialization, hands-on forensics experience, and certifications like GCIH or CISSP strengthen your PERM documentation and support EB-2 classification.
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Category Engineering
Hire Type Employee
Job ID 19166
Base Salary Range $161000-$242000
Remote Eligible No
Date Posted 10/25/2026
We Are
Synopsys is the leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, enabling customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products. We deliver industry-leading silicon design, IP, simulation and analysis solutions, and design services. We partner closely with our customers across a wide range of industries to maximize their R&D capability and productivity, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity of tomorrow.
You Are
You are an experienced cybersecurity professional with a strong background in incident response and security operations. You have hands-on experience investigating significant security incidents where quickly determining scope, coordinating containment, and maintaining investigation momentum are critical.
You are comfortable working with third-party forensic providers, Detection Engineering, Threat Intelligence, and teams outside cybersecurity during active investigations. Between incidents, you contribute to improving security capabilities by developing detections, deploying new security tools, improving processes, and supporting new security initiatives.
You have a strong technical foundation across endpoint, network, cloud, and email security environments and can correlate and analyze information from multiple data sources to investigate threats and determine their impact. You are comfortable learning new technologies, communicating complex security issues to different audiences, and working across time zones as part of a globally distributed incident response team.
What You'll Be Doing
- Investigate high-severity cybersecurity incidents from detection through containment, determining scope and coordinating response activities across global teams
- Work directly with third-party cybersecurity and forensic providers during significant investigations, managing handoffs and maintaining continuity across teams and time zones
- Correlate and analyze data across multiple log sources, systems, and security technologies to investigate incidents and determine potential impact
- Collaborate with Detection Engineering and Threat Intelligence to improve alert quality, enrich detections, reduce unnecessary noise, and lessons learned from investigations
- Develop and tune security detections and contribute to the team's detection library, incident response procedures, documentation, and playbooks
- Deploy and support new security tools and capabilities across endpoint, cloud, and email security environments, including technologies such as CrowdStrike, Wiz, Proofpoint, and Abnormal
- Coordinate incident response activities with teams outside cybersecurity during major investigations and translate technical findings into clear, actionable guidance
- Contribute to security projects between incidents, including implementing new tools, developing automation, and establishing new security capabilities
- Stay current with evolving cyber threats and assess how emerging threats could affect the environment
- Leverage AI technologies, including LLM and agentic solutions, to improve security operations and help address alert scale
The Impact You'll Have
- Strengthen East Coast incident response coverage
- Reduce time to containment during high-severity incidents through strong investigative capability and cross-functional coordination
- Improve detection quality and reduce alert fatigue by feeding investigation findings back into Detection Engineering and enriching alerts with relevant context
- Expand the security program's capabilities through new tools, detections, automation, and security initiatives
- Help protect Synopsys infrastructure and intellectual property through effective investigation and response to cybersecurity incidents
- Build institutional knowledge by documenting investigations, strengthening response procedures and playbooks, and sharing knowledge across the globally distributed team
- Support continuous improvement of tooling, detections, processes, and response capabilities between active incidents
- 5+ years of hands-on cybersecurity experience in Incident Response, Security Operations, or a related security function, including significant experience investigating cybersecurity incidents
- Strong experience investigating active security incidents, including determining scope, coordinating containment, and working with multidisciplinary teams during response
- Experience working within formal incident response processes and coordinating activities across technical and business teams
- Experience collaborating with third-party cybersecurity or forensic providers during investigations
- Hands-on experience with SIEM and endpoint detection and response technologies, with the ability to investigate and correlate security activity across multiple data sources
- Strong log analysis and network analysis skills with the ability to correlate information across systems and security technologies during investigations
- Strong technical knowledge of common network protocols and technologies, including TCP/IP, HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, SSH, RDP, CIFS/SMB, and NFS
- Familiarity with cloud and SaaS environments, including AWS, Azure, and Microsoft 365
- Strong understanding of Windows environments and general knowledge of Unix, Linux, and macOS
- Understanding of MITRE ATT&CK and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and how they within an enterprise environment
- Practical experience with at least 1 development or scripting language, such as PowerShell, Python, or .NET, as well as regular expressions
- Experience contributing to security initiatives outside active incident response, such as developing detections, deploying security tools, automating processes, or establishing new capabilities
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex security issues clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders
- Experience with endpoint, cloud, and email security technologies such as CrowdStrike, Wiz, Proofpoint, or Abnormal is a plus
- Experience with security automation and orchestration technologies, including Microsoft Power Automate or comparable platforms, is a plus
- Experience ing AI technologies, including LLM and agentic solutions, within security operations is a plus
- Relevant security certifications such as GCIH, GCFE, GCFA, GCSA, GMON, CISSP, or similar are a plus
- Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
The Team You'll Be Part Of
You will join the global CSIRT team, which is distributed across Chile, Bangalore, Ireland, and the U.S. East and West Coasts, with the largest concentration of team members in Bangalore. The team balances two primary areas of focus: responding to high-severity cybersecurity incidents and investigations, and advancing security projects and capabilities between incidents, including implementing tools, creating detections, improving automation, and establishing new security capabilities.
At Synopsys, we want talented people of every background to feel valued and supported to do their best work. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, military veteran status, or disability.
In addition to the base salary, this role may be eligible for an annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses. Synopsys offers comprehensive health, wellness, and financial benefits as part of a competitive total rewards package. The actual compensation offered will be based on a number of job-related factors, including location, skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter can provide more information.
Date posted 10/25/2026
Category Engineering
Hire Type Employee
Job ID 19166
Base Salary Range $161000-$242000
Remote Eligible No
Date Posted 10/25/2026
We Are
Synopsys is the leader in engineering solutions from silicon to systems, enabling customers to rapidly innovate AI-powered products. We deliver industry-leading silicon design, IP, simulation and analysis solutions, and design services. We partner closely with our customers across a wide range of industries to maximize their R&D capability and productivity, powering innovation today that ignites the ingenuity of tomorrow.
You Are
You are an experienced cybersecurity professional with a strong background in incident response and security operations. You have hands-on experience investigating significant security incidents where quickly determining scope, coordinating containment, and maintaining investigation momentum are critical.
You are comfortable working with third-party forensic providers, Detection Engineering, Threat Intelligence, and teams outside cybersecurity during active investigations. Between incidents, you contribute to improving security capabilities by developing detections, deploying new security tools, improving processes, and supporting new security initiatives.
You have a strong technical foundation across endpoint, network, cloud, and email security environments and can correlate and analyze information from multiple data sources to investigate threats and determine their impact. You are comfortable learning new technologies, communicating complex security issues to different audiences, and working across time zones as part of a globally distributed incident response team.
What You'll Be Doing
- Investigate high-severity cybersecurity incidents from detection through containment, determining scope and coordinating response activities across global teams
- Work directly with third-party cybersecurity and forensic providers during significant investigations, managing handoffs and maintaining continuity across teams and time zones
- Correlate and analyze data across multiple log sources, systems, and security technologies to investigate incidents and determine potential impact
- Collaborate with Detection Engineering and Threat Intelligence to improve alert quality, enrich detections, reduce unnecessary noise, and lessons learned from investigations
- Develop and tune security detections and contribute to the team's detection library, incident response procedures, documentation, and playbooks
- Deploy and support new security tools and capabilities across endpoint, cloud, and email security environments, including technologies such as CrowdStrike, Wiz, Proofpoint, and Abnormal
- Coordinate incident response activities with teams outside cybersecurity during major investigations and translate technical findings into clear, actionable guidance
- Contribute to security projects between incidents, including implementing new tools, developing automation, and establishing new security capabilities
- Stay current with evolving cyber threats and assess how emerging threats could affect the environment
- Leverage AI technologies, including LLM and agentic solutions, to improve security operations and help address alert scale
The Impact You'll Have
- Strengthen East Coast incident response coverage
- Reduce time to containment during high-severity incidents through strong investigative capability and cross-functional coordination
- Improve detection quality and reduce alert fatigue by feeding investigation findings back into Detection Engineering and enriching alerts with relevant context
- Expand the security program's capabilities through new tools, detections, automation, and security initiatives
- Help protect Synopsys infrastructure and intellectual property through effective investigation and response to cybersecurity incidents
- Build institutional knowledge by documenting investigations, strengthening response procedures and playbooks, and sharing knowledge across the globally distributed team
- Support continuous improvement of tooling, detections, processes, and response capabilities between active incidents
- 5+ years of hands-on cybersecurity experience in Incident Response, Security Operations, or a related security function, including significant experience investigating cybersecurity incidents
- Strong experience investigating active security incidents, including determining scope, coordinating containment, and working with multidisciplinary teams during response
- Experience working within formal incident response processes and coordinating activities across technical and business teams
- Experience collaborating with third-party cybersecurity or forensic providers during investigations
- Hands-on experience with SIEM and endpoint detection and response technologies, with the ability to investigate and correlate security activity across multiple data sources
- Strong log analysis and network analysis skills with the ability to correlate information across systems and security technologies during investigations
- Strong technical knowledge of common network protocols and technologies, including TCP/IP, HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, SSH, RDP, CIFS/SMB, and NFS
- Familiarity with cloud and SaaS environments, including AWS, Azure, and Microsoft 365
- Strong understanding of Windows environments and general knowledge of Unix, Linux, and macOS
- Understanding of MITRE ATT&CK and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and how they within an enterprise environment
- Practical experience with at least 1 development or scripting language, such as PowerShell, Python, or .NET, as well as regular expressions
- Experience contributing to security initiatives outside active incident response, such as developing detections, deploying security tools, automating processes, or establishing new capabilities
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex security issues clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders
- Experience with endpoint, cloud, and email security technologies such as CrowdStrike, Wiz, Proofpoint, or Abnormal is a plus
- Experience with security automation and orchestration technologies, including Microsoft Power Automate or comparable platforms, is a plus
- Experience ing AI technologies, including LLM and agentic solutions, within security operations is a plus
- Relevant security certifications such as GCIH, GCFE, GCFA, GCSA, GMON, CISSP, or similar are a plus
- Bachelor's degree in Information Security, Computer Science, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
The Team You'll Be Part Of
You will join the global CSIRT team, which is distributed across Chile, Bangalore, Ireland, and the U.S. East and West Coasts, with the largest concentration of team members in Bangalore. The team balances two primary areas of focus: responding to high-severity cybersecurity incidents and investigations, and advancing security projects and capabilities between incidents, including implementing tools, creating detections, improving automation, and establishing new security capabilities.
At Synopsys, we want talented people of every background to feel valued and supported to do their best work. Synopsys considers all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, military veteran status, or disability.
In addition to the base salary, this role may be eligible for an annual bonus, equity, and other discretionary bonuses. Synopsys offers comprehensive health, wellness, and financial benefits as part of a competitive total rewards package. The actual compensation offered will be based on a number of job-related factors, including location, skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter can provide more information.
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding Green Card Sponsorship as an Incident Response Engineer
Align your certifications to PERM job requirements
PERM requires the employer to define minimum qualifications before advertising the role. Certifications like GCIH, GCFE, or CISSP that appear in your offer letter's requirements directly support your I-140 and reduce RFE risk.
Target employers with dedicated security operations centers
Organizations running 24/7 SOC teams file PERM for Incident Response Engineers far more regularly than generalist IT shops. Financial services, healthcare systems, and defense contractors are the sectors with the most consistent sponsorship pipelines for this role.
Search green card sponsors using Migrate Mate
Use Migrate Mate to filter for employers who have sponsored Incident Response or cybersecurity roles through PERM. Seeing a company's actual green card filing history tells you far more than a job posting that says sponsorship is available.
Confirm the role is classified under the right SOC code
Incident Response Engineers are typically filed under SOC 15-1212 (Information Security Analysts). Ask your employer's immigration counsel to verify this before the PERM prevailing wage determination is submitted, because misclassification delays the entire process.
Request the PERM timeline before accepting an offer
DOL's PERM audit backlog means labor certification alone can take six to eighteen months. Knowing where the employer is in the PERM queue, or whether they'll file concurrently, is critical before you commit to a role and start a clock on your current status.
Use the OFLC Wage Search to benchmark your offer
PERM wages must meet DOL prevailing wage levels for your SOC code and work location. Run the OFLC Wage Search yourself before negotiations so you know the minimum the employer must pay and can push for a wage that won't stall certification.
Green Card Incident Response Engineer: Frequently Asked Questions
Does an Incident Response Engineer role qualify for EB-2 or EB-3 sponsorship?
Most Incident Response Engineer positions qualify for EB-3 as skilled workers requiring a bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a related field. Roles requiring a master's degree or involving highly specialized forensics research may support EB-2 classification. Your employer's immigration counsel determines the category based on the job requirements they document for PERM.
How does green card sponsorship differ from H-1B for this role?
Green card sponsorship through PERM leads to permanent residency, not a temporary status that must be renewed every three years. There's no annual cap lottery at the EB-3 level for most countries, so your employer files when ready rather than waiting for a random selection window. The tradeoff is timeline: PERM plus I-140 plus adjustment of status typically takes two to four years even without a backlog, compared to H-1B visa which grants status within months.
What makes an Incident Response Engineer role harder or easier to get PERM approved?
PERM approval depends on whether the employer can document that no qualified U.S. worker applied during the mandatory recruitment period. Roles requiring highly specific tools, incident frameworks like NIST 800-61, or forensic platforms that aren't widely taught in standard degree programs tend to attract fewer competing domestic candidates. Overly broad job descriptions that accept any IT bachelor's degree create the most recruitment risk.
How do I find employers actively sponsoring green cards for cybersecurity roles?
Migrate Mate lets you search for employers who have filed PERM labor certifications for Incident Response, information security, or related cybersecurity job titles. Reviewing a company's actual PERM filing history is more reliable than reading a job description that mentions sponsorship, because it shows you which organizations have completed the process before and understand the commitment involved.
Can my employer start PERM while I'm on H-1B, and what happens to my status?
Yes. Employers frequently begin PERM labor certification while you're working on H-1B status. The two processes run independently, and PERM filing doesn't affect your H-1B. Once your I-140 is approved and you've been in the PERM queue for 365 days, USCIS can grant H-1B extensions beyond the normal six-year cap limit, protecting your status while your green card case progresses.