Artemis
Offensive Security Engineer
$180K–$220K
New York City · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 11, 2026
- Experience
- 5+ years; equivalent demonstrated expertise is welcome.
About the job
Build and validate adversary emulations and detection capabilities, research attacks on AI and data systems, and turn findings into defensive improvements.
What you'll do
- Develop reusable attack scenarios and safely run authorized emulations; validate detections and identify visibility gaps.
- Research attacks and emerging exploits across AI systems, cloud, identity, and data environments; develop detection hypotheses and tests.
- Build continuous validation and contribute detections, hunt logic, telemetry requirements, and regression tests; partner with SOC teams and customers.
What they ask for
- 5+ years of hands-on cybersecurity experience, with substantial offensive security, red teaming, adversary emulation, or security research work; equivalent demonstrated expertise is welcome.
- Strong Python skills and experience building reusable security tools with APIs, SDKs, Git, code review, and automated testing.
- Deep practical expertise in at least one cloud or identity ecosystem, plus practical web/API security knowledge.
- Experience reproducing attacks in controlled environments and connecting behavior to audit logs, detection logic, and investigation evidence.
Nice to have
- Experience with Atomic Red Team, MITRE ATT&CK and ATLAS, purple teaming, or continuous security validation.
- Experience with SQL, detection-as-code, or hands-on work with MCP servers, RAG systems, model gateways, or repeatable AI evaluations.
Pay
$180,000 – $220,000 per year (base salary)
Tools
Python, APIs, SDKs, Git, Atomic Red Team, MITRE ATT&CK, ATLAS, SQL
AI focus
Research attacks against AI systems and agent workflows, build AI evaluation harnesses, and use AI to accelerate security research and tooling while verifying outputs.
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