174K–249K USD / year
Senior Research Staff, Adversarial Intelligence
AIRemote — United States
Published on 2026-11-09
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About this role
Lead applied research at the intersection of AI, systems security, and agentic security systems. The role combines research problem formulation, prototyping, rigorous evaluation, and collaboration with product and engineering teams to turn findings into useful security methods and systems.
About the company
Horizon3.ai is a technology company specializing in cybersecurity solutions, focusing on automated penetration testing and threat detection for enterprises. They provide a range of services aimed at enhancing security posture and risk management for organizations across various sectors.
The team
Horizon3 AI Research, within AI Labs.
What you'll do
- Define and lead research problems involving AI, cybersecurity, and computer systems.
- Design rigorous experiments and evaluation methods for realistic security environments.
- Build research prototypes or guide their implementation.
- Evaluate AI techniques and reason over complex security data and environments.
- Collaborate with security, attack engineering, and product teams.
- Mentor junior researchers and communicate findings through reports, presentations, or publications.
What we're looking for
- Strong computer science foundations and significant depth in systems security, machine learning, or a related field.
- Experience independently investigating complex, open-ended technical problems.
- Strong programming skills and ability to translate research ideas into working systems.
- Ability to design experiments, analyze results critically, and evaluate technical literature.
- Ability to mentor junior researchers and communicate complex technical ideas clearly.
- Computer science or related degree, or equivalent technical experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with offensive or defensive security, penetration testing, vulnerability research, cloud security, or related areas.
- Experience with LLMs, AI agents, reinforcement learning, planning, search, or graph reasoning.
- Research leadership, realistic research systems, evaluation frameworks, or production research transfers.
- Cybersecurity familiarity with attack paths, Active Directory, cloud, identity systems, or autonomous security.
- Publications, patents, conference presentations, or open-source contributions.
Benefits
- Stock options
- Health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and families
- Flexible vacation policy
- Generous parental leave