Senior AI Researcher (Cybersecurity)

TL;DR

Senior AI Researcher (AI/Cybersecurity): Building large-scale AI agents and autonomous security systems to detect malicious behavior and assess risk with an accent on reasoning over software, code, and endpoint activity. Focus on designing evaluations, reliability infrastructure, and optimizing inference for production-scale autonomous agents.

Location: Must be based in Tel Aviv, Israel. No immigration sponsorship available.

Company

hirify.global is a global leader in cybersecurity dedicated to protecting the digital way of life through cutting-edge innovation and AI-native security systems.

What you will do

• Build AI agents and autonomous security systems that reason over software, code, and security signals to detect threats at production scale.
• Develop tooling and infrastructure to enable agents to autonomously investigate threats and hunt for malware in massive datasets.
• Design and run experiments, benchmarks, and automated evaluations to test frontier-model capabilities in adversarial scenarios.
• Engineer distributed AI systems for scale, focusing on inference optimization, orchestration, batching, and cost controls.
• Partner with threat and security researchers to translate domain expertise into scalable AI workflows.
• Define research direction and technical strategy for the deployment of autonomous AI systems across the organization.

Requirements

• Strong experience building and operating AI agents or autonomous systems in production environments.
• Hands-on expertise with LLMs, agent frameworks, tool use, reasoning systems, and multi-agent orchestration.
• Strong engineering skills in Python and modern AI infrastructure.
• Proven ability to own the entire lifecycle from research and prototyping to deployment and scaling.
• Must be based in Tel Aviv, Israel.
• No eligibility for immigration sponsorship/work visas.

Nice to have

• Background in cybersecurity, malware analysis, vulnerability research, or detection systems.
• Experience with offensive security research, pentesting, or exploit development.
• Track record in CTFs, bug bounties, or open-source security tooling.
• Experience building large-scale evaluation systems or benchmarks for AI.

Culture & Benefits

• In-person collaboration model based in the office with flexibility when needed.
• Opportunity to work with frontier models and collaborate with leading AI organizations like Anthropic.
• Culture rooted in disruption, collaboration, execution, integrity, and inclusion.
• Commitment to diversity and providing reasonable accommodations for disabilities.