AI Security Research Engineer

Make Your Mark

Cymulate's Continuous Security Validation enables companies to challenge, assess and optimize their cyber-security posture against the evolving cyberthreat landscape, simply and continuously.

With world-class clients we strive to bring the highest level of service to everything we do. Our team is made up of the very best people for the job and as we grow, we're always on the lookout for people with the skills, experience, and personality that will let us both shine. With high scores on Gartner, G2 and Glassdoor, our clients and employees have let us know what they love about us.

About the Role

You'll join Cymulate's Research Team, which focuses on offensive cybersecurity research, vulnerability discovery, and the development of advanced attack techniques. The team researches real-world adversary behavior, designs novel attack methods from scratch, and translates them into high-fidelity simulations that help customers proactively validate and improve their security posture.
The team's work is frequently presented at leading global security conferences and directly influences modern offensive and defensive security practices.What You'll Do
Lead the development of advanced AI and agentic AI systems for modeling, executing, and analyzing attack techniques.
Apply agentic AI to offensive security research workflows, from attack discovery to simulation logic and analysis.
Conduct hands-on offensive security research, including vulnerability discovery and attack chain development.
Design new attack techniques and translate research into production-grade simulations.
Build AI-driven components that integrate with Cymulate's platform and customer-facing capabilities.
Collaborate with research, engineering, and product teams in fast-paced, Agile research cycles.
What You Bring
Proven experience in advanced cyber research, elite military technology units, or equivalent industry roles.
Deep expertise in AI systems and agentic AI development.
Strong hands-on background in offensive cybersecurity (OSCP or equivalent experience).
Experience with microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, LangGraph, and LangChain.
Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a strong advantage.
Strong ownership, problem-solving skills, and technical leadership abilities.