Sr Staff Security Researcher (AI-Assisted Vulnerability Research)

What you'll do

• Design and improve AI/security harnesses and evaluation pipelines, emphasizing reproducibility, validation quality, and false-positive reduction.
• Perform technical vulnerability research, including fuzzing, reverse engineering, root-cause and exploitability analysis, patch and variant analysis, and PoC validation.
• Build reusable research infrastructure and produce research artifacts such as validated findings, reports, benchmarks, open-source tools, disclosures, or CVEs.

What they ask for

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

Nice to have

• PhD in a related field, or equivalent demonstrated research experience.
• Experience building AI agent or fuzzing harnesses, vulnerability validation workflows, security benchmarks, or open-source vulnerability research tooling.

Pay

$139,600.00 - $225,775.00/yr (base salary)

Tools

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

AI focus

Use LLMs and AI agents to build and improve vulnerability research harnesses, workflows, and evaluation pipelines, including discovery, validation, PoC generation, patch validation, and variant analysis.