Senior Lead Validator – Cybersecurity Model Risk (Cybersecurity)

Location: Chicago, IL; applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without employment-based visa sponsorship

Salary: $137,400–$233,600 USD annual base pay

Company

hirify.global provides wealth management, asset servicing, asset management, and banking services to individuals, institutions, and corporations.

What you will do

• Lead independent validations of cybersecurity models, security analytics, detection systems, machine learning models, and generative or agentic AI solutions.
• Determine validation scope and assess conceptual soundness, data quality, assumptions, implementation, performance, monitoring, and governance.
• Evaluate false positives and negatives, model uncertainty, drift, detection gaps, adversarial manipulation, model evasion, data poisoning, prompt injection, and insecure tool use.
• Develop scalable validation methodologies, testing expectations, review standards, and risk-tiering approaches for cybersecurity analytics and AI-enabled systems.
• Present validation conclusions, material risks, thematic observations, and remediation priorities to senior management and governance committees.
• Lead complex reviews, guide other validators, and support regulatory examinations, internal audits, and independent reviews.

Requirements

• Extensive experience in Model Risk Management, independent model validation, quantitative review, or independent technical risk assessment, including complex or material reviews.
• Strong knowledge of cybersecurity risk and the use of analytics, machine learning, and AI in security decision-making and control environments.
• Experience evaluating model performance, data quality, uncertainty, drift, explainability, monitoring, resilience, and human oversight.
• Ability to exercise independent judgment, provide credible challenge, resolve complex technical issues, and make risk-based recommendations to senior stakeholders.
• Strong leadership, analytical, written, verbal, and executive communication skills.
• Must be authorized to work in the U.S. without employment-based visa sponsorship; visa sponsorship is not available.

Nice to have

• Experience validating cybersecurity models, detection analytics, identity and access risk models, vulnerability or cyber risk scoring, or AI-enabled security solutions.
• Knowledge of security operations, threat detection, behavioral analytics, adversarial machine learning, AI security testing, AI red teaming, generative AI, and agentic AI.
• Familiarity with security event, authentication, endpoint, network, vulnerability, threat intelligence, and incident data.
• FRM, PRM, CFA, CISSP, CISM, CRISC, or relevant AI, cybersecurity, cloud, or technology certifications.

Culture & Benefits

• Comprehensive retirement benefits, including 401(k) and pension.
• Medical, dental, vision, spending accounts, disability, life, and accident insurance.
• Paid time off, parental and caregiver leave, and other well-being benefits.
• Discretionary bonus program that may include an equity component.
• Flexible and collaborative work culture with opportunities for internal movement and accessible senior leadership.