Senior Security Engineer - Vulnerability Research

Location: Remote, US

Annual base salary: $191,000–$293,000

Company

hirify.global develops an Autonomous IT platform that provides real-time intelligence, agentic decision-making, and automated execution for IT and security operations.

What you will do

• Identify attack surfaces and vulnerability classes, then build capabilities to discover previously unknown vulnerabilities.
• Triage vulnerabilities, assess exploitability and business impact, and prioritize remediation.
• Provide engineering teams with patch guidance, vulnerability reports, and working pull requests.
• Maintain threat models for software and cloud services and use them to guide vulnerability research.
• Evaluate frontier AI tooling and build agentic workflows for vulnerability discovery, triage, and remediation.
• Develop and maintain fuzzing harnesses, AI skills, static analyzers, and dynamic analyzers while reducing false positives.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, another relevant degree, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of industry experience; 7+ years preferred.
• Strong understanding of web and native application security.
• Hands-on vulnerability research experience through source code review, manual application penetration testing, or fuzzing.
• Expertise in assessing vulnerability severity, exploitability, and business impact.
• Ability to read and write code in at least one of Go, C++, TypeScript/JavaScript, or Python, plus experience developing and shipping secure code.

Nice to have

• Experience applying frontier models to vulnerability research and evaluating where AI improves results or creates noise.
• Experience with reachability or exploitability analysis, native code security, AWS or Azure, or applied cryptography.
• Published vulnerability research, credited CVEs, bounty findings, open-source security tooling, or conference talks.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, respectful, diverse, and inclusive work environment.
• Medical, dental, and vision plans, including family planning benefits.
• Health savings, flexible spending, transportation savings, and 401(k) plans with company match.
• Equity awards, disability and life coverage, employee assistance programs, and other well-being benefits.
• Five days of volunteer time off each year.