Principal Security Researcher (AI-Assisted Vulnerability Research)

What you'll do

• Build and improve reproducible AI/security harnesses, evaluation pipelines, and research infrastructure for vulnerability discovery and validation.
• Conduct vulnerability research, including fuzzing, reverse engineering, root-cause analysis, exploitability assessment, patch analysis, and proof-of-concept validation.
• Analyze research outputs and produce validated findings, technical reports, benchmarks, tools, disclosures, or other security artifacts.

What they ask for

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of experience in vulnerability research or a closely related security research role.
• Demonstrated ability to independently drive a technical research project from problem formulation through implementation, evaluation, and written results.
• Strong programming skills and demonstrated security research or technical output.

Nice to have

• PhD in a related field, or equivalent demonstrated research experience.
• Experience building AI agent, fuzzing, evaluation, or vulnerability-validation harnesses and workflows.

Pay

$172,100.00 - $278,300.00/yr USD base salary

Tools

LLMs, AI agents, fuzzing, static analysis, dynamic analysis, program analysis, reverse engineering, security automation

AI focus

Uses LLMs and AI agents to build and improve vulnerability-research workflows, including discovery, validation, evaluation, and reporting.