Staff Attack Engineer (AI/LLM Security)

TL;DR

Staff Attack Engineer (AI/LLM Security): Building and scaling automated attack patterns for the NodeZero autonomous pentesting platform with an accent on AI/LLM exploitation and agentic system security. Focus on designing reusable prompt injection, defense evasion, and tool-use exploitation techniques to secure enterprise AI infrastructure.

Location: Must be based in the US

Salary: $223,000 - $275,000 annually

Company

hirify.global is a cybersecurity company providing autonomous pentesting solutions to help organizations proactively identify and remediate exploitable attack vectors.

What you will do

• Break AI and agentic systems and translate research into automated, repeatable attack modules.
• Design and execute prompt injection and defense evasion attacks with a focus on reusable patterns.
• Exploit LLM agents' access to code, file systems, APIs, and databases to simulate realistic attacker outcomes.
• Target AI infrastructure including model serving, training pipelines, and vector databases.
• Perform threat modeling for agentic systems to map trust boundaries and attack surfaces.
• Apply a productization mindset to turn manual techniques into scalable automated tooling.

Requirements

• Must be based in the US
• Expert-level Python and software engineering skills.
• Solid penetration testing fundamentals and understanding of common attack chains.
• Proven ability to break AI/LLM and agentic systems.
• Familiarity with AI/LLM security frameworks like OWASP Top 10 for LLMs and MITRE ATLAS.
• Experience in a security product or offensive security team.

Nice to have

• Experience with cloud AI services like Azure OpenAI or GCP Vertex AI.
• Contributions to AI security research such as blog posts, talks, or CVEs.
• Familiarity with graph databases like Neo4j.
• Background in traditional exploit development or vulnerability research.
• CTF experience in AI/ML challenge categories.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% remote work environment.
• Competitive salary and equity package in the form of stock options.
• Comprehensive health, vision, and dental insurance for employees and families.
• Flexible vacation policy and generous parental leave.
• Inclusive team culture focused on collaboration, ownership, and results.