Senior AI Red Team Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States; 70% in-office work model

Salary: $145,900–$234,200 per year, plus potential discretionary bonus, incentive compensation, or equity.

Company

hirify.global develops mRNA-based medicines, vaccines, delivery technologies, and manufacturing capabilities.

What you will do

• Plan, execute, and document red team operations across digital, physical, and hybrid environments.
• Conduct reconnaissance, network exploitation, lateral movement, privilege escalation, data exfiltration, and post-exploitation activities.
• Develop and maintain covert offensive infrastructure, including C2 frameworks, payload obfuscation, cloud staging, and beacon management.
• Build scripts and exploits in Python, PowerShell, Bash, Go, or other languages to simulate adversary TTPs.
• Collaborate with Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, and Detection Engineering to measure detection effectiveness and improve defensive controls.
• Lead technical debriefs and help advance the red team program toward continuous adversary emulation.

Requirements

• 4+ years of cybersecurity experience with deep red teaming, offensive security, or adversary simulation experience.
• Experience with network penetration testing, Active Directory exploitation, Azure, AWS, O365, endpoint evasion, and AI systems.
• Strong knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, C2 frameworks, offensive tooling, purple teaming, and OPSEC.
• Experience conducting stealth operations under blue team monitoring and integrating findings into detection playbooks.
• Ability to communicate complex offensive findings to technical engineers and executive stakeholders.
• Must qualify as a U.S. person under U.S. export control laws; non-U.S. persons are not eligible, and visa sponsorship is unavailable.

Nice to have

• Experience targeting OT or laboratory-connected systems.
• OSCP, OSEP, OSED, CRTO, or equivalent hands-on offensive security certification.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive healthcare and voluntary benefit programs.
• Fitness, mindfulness, mental health, family planning, fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support.
• Paid vacation, volunteer days, sabbatical, global recharge days, and a discretionary year-end shutdown.
• Savings and investment programs, plus location-specific perks.
• In-person collaboration supported through a 70/30 office-based working model.