AI Red Team Researcher

Description:

About Us:

Zenity is the leader in AI Agent Security and the first company to bring an agent-centric security platform to market. As enterprises accelerate AI agent adoption, we are establishing the security framework for how AI agents are secured and governed at enterprise scale.

We deliver full-lifecycle visibility, governance, detection, prevention, and response for AI agents from build time to runtime, across SaaS, home-grown platforms, and end-user devices. Backed by $180M+ in total funding, including a $125M Series C led by Norwest, with participation from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Microsoft's M12, Zenity is trusted by Fortune 500 and Global 2000 enterprises worldwide.

Join us in shaping how AI agents are secured at enterprise scale.

About the Role:

Zenity’s AI Red Team plays a central role in the company’s operations. Powering the research behind Zenity Labs, positioning the company as a security thought leader, and speaking at top tier conferences. 

We’re looking for a highly skilled Junior Offensive Security Researcher to find new attack vectors, from initial exploitation to impact in the emerging world of Agentic AI, LLMs, and their surrounding ecosystem.

This role is ideal for researchers who are passionate about breaking new ground in the growing world of AI and impacting the future landscape of Zenity products.

Responsibilities:

• Research emerging agentic technologies and uncover new exploits, attack vectors and risks. From initial exploitation to impact.
• Build tooling, harnesses, and test frameworks to scale attack discovery and make research repeatable. And contribute to internal red team infrastructure.
• Investigate the surrounding ecosystem, not just the model. This includes: plugins, connectors, MCP servers, orchestration frameworks, and different types of infrastructure. Mapping how weaknesses in one component can develop into full compromise.
• Work with product and engineering to translate offensive findings into new defense capabilities.

Requirements:

• Prior Red Team or Vulnerability Research experience
• Strong coding and scripting skills in languages such as Python, JavaScript and bash
• Solid Cloud and Appsec experience
• Prior understanding and experience with AI related vulnerabilities. Including: direct and indirect prompt injections, jailbreaks and AI related reconnaissance.
• Curiosity, creativity, and a self-driven approach to research.
• Most importantly: the ability to learn quickly and adapt in a fast paced environment.