Senior Threat Hunter, AI-Centric

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Lead an internal initiative to investigate and incorporate candidate agentic capabilities into testing environments.

• Act as a consultant for clients aiming to embed agentic capabilities into their cybersecurity enterprises, guiding them on identifying, integrating, and testing these capabilities before deployment.

• Stay informed on industry advancements in AI and cybersecurity operations by reviewing publications and standards.

• Provide top-tier mentorship on advanced threat hunting tactics and strategies for our global clients and international organizations.

• Leverage extensive Blue Teaming experience to create parsing rules, dashboards, and tune various enterprise security tools within our cyber range platform to surpass client goals and objectives.

• Collaborate with our range operations team to devise toolsets and scenarios within a cybersecurity range that simulate real-world threat defense situations.

• Apply foresight and awareness of overarching business priorities when navigating competing requirements and needs from different parts of the organization to foster consensus and achieve results.

• Demonstrate initiative in daily tasks, lead projects, and mentor fellow team members.

• Effectively navigate and operate within a complex, geographically dispersed organization.

• Assist in the evaluation of customer security teams and customer events, which may necessitate national and international travel, estimated at 25-30%.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven expertise in AI/ML engineering, including hands-on application and experimentation with AI agents and LLM APIs.

• In-depth knowledge of AI agents, focusing on the orchestration of agent decision loops, tool access frameworks, and memory systems optimized for threat hunting and proactive security operations.

• Practical experience in designing and deploying Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines to ground LLMs in internal threat intelligence, historical incident data, and enterprise security policies while mitigating hallucinations.

• Advanced skills in Python and standard data science/AI libraries, along with strong scripting abilities for data manipulation (Pandas, Numpy).

• Familiarity with open-source AI ecosystems (Hugging Face) and frameworks for executing local, privacy-safe LLMs (Ollama, vLLM).

• Over 6 years of experience in a technical capacity in Security Operations, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Offensive Security/Red Team, or Cyber Threat Intelligence.

• Experience in analyzing host, network, and application telemetry for indicators of attack throughout the cyber kill chain.

• Direct experience with large datasets and log analysis tools, including but not limited to: Splunk, Elastic, Python, Pandas, SQL, Hadoop, Hue.

• Ability to leverage Cyber Threat Intelligence through enrichment, correlation, and attribution.

• Experience in setting up and/or troubleshooting security stacks.

• Understanding of offensive security strategies and assessment methodologies.

• Ability to communicate threat hunt objectives to both technical and non-technical audiences, distilling complex information into understandable content.

• Hands-on technical experience in hunting for indicators of compromise across various enterprise-scale EDR and SIEM tools, including Splunk, Elastic, Crowdstrike, and numerous other major vendors.

• Prior experience conducting digital forensics or incident response during significant security incidents.

• Proven self-starter with a continual desire to assist others in improving and strengthening the team.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, plus savings plans—coverage begins on day one!

• Access to company-funded counseling, coaching, and resources for you and your family through Spring Health.

• Prepare for your future with a 401(k) retirement savings plan that includes a company match.

• Enjoy unlimited vacation and designated health & wellness days, with flexible solutions to accommodate the diverse work-life needs of team members.

• Paid leave plans to support you and your loved ones during life's most significant moments.

• Equity stock options at the time of hire, with annual performance-based grants—become an invested stakeholder in our collective success.

• Earn $1,500–$3,500 for each qualified hire through our employee referral program.

• Access full- and partial-subsidized membership plans and equipment discounts to help you achieve your personalized fitness goals.

• Benefit from a LinkedIn Learning membership to prioritize your personal and professional growth.

• Receive monthly reimbursements for meaningful connections with teammates through our SocialSpace Community.

• Enjoy legal plan coverage, pet insurance, wellness reimbursements, and more to simplify life's details.