Manager, Security Research (Cybersecurity)

TL;DR

Manager, Security Research (Cybersecurity): Leading a research team to eliminate credential leakage and secure non-human identities with an accent on secret scanning, novel attack surfaces, and attacker behavior modeling. Focus on turning research insights into product capabilities and designing large-scale verification systems.

Location: Fully remote within the United States

Salary: $225,000–$260,000

Company

hirify.global is a cybersecurity company focused on preventing credential leakage and protecting machine identities through their open-source tool TruffleHog.

What you will do

• Own and drive the research roadmap for leaked credentials and non-human identity security.
• Lead and scale a high-impact research team, translating output into product capabilities.
• Identify novel leak surfaces across code, SaaS tools, and AI/LLM ecosystems.
• Design large-scale scans and experiments to model attacker behavior.
• Develop scalable verification systems to distinguish exploitable secrets from noise.
• Publish technical research and represent the company at conferences and in the community.

Requirements

• Must be based in the United States
• Proven experience leading and growing a research team with strong ownership.
• Deep expertise in secret scanning and verification at scale (regex, entropy, ML).
• Track record of discovering high-impact vulnerabilities and validating exploitability.
• Experience building security scanners or large-scale data pipelines.
• Strong technical communication skills for publishing research and public speaking.

Nice to have

• Background in offensive security, bug bounty, or vulnerability research.
• Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source security tools.
• Interest in attack surfaces within AI/LLM ecosystems.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote work environment within the US with twice-yearly company off-sites.
• Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and a 401(k) match (100% of first 6%).
• Comprehensive health benefits with 80% of premiums covered for employees and dependents.
• Flexible paid time off and 14 paid holidays.
• Annual stipends for learning and development ($2,000), health and wellness ($1,200), and a remote work stipend ($800 initial + $100/month).