Lead Cybersecurity Engineer (AI)

Location

Location: Remote (U.S. Only)

Salary

$230,000 - $280,000 per year plus performance bonus and equity package

Company

hirify.global is a well-funded, fast-growing startup focused on AI safety and cybersecurity, building real-time threat detection and adaptive adversarial red teaming agents for frontier AI labs.

What you will do

• Design and lead adversarial evaluations of frontier LLMs for offensive cyber capabilities including vulnerability discovery, exploit development, malware generation, and autonomous cyber operations.
• Partner with machine learning engineers to build scalable benchmarks, classifiers, guardrails, and evaluation infrastructure for AI deployments.
• Develop and maintain a catastrophic cyber harm taxonomy and evolve cyber evaluation frameworks as AI capabilities advance.
• Produce technical risk assessments and recommendations for AI labs, enterprise customers, and internal stakeholders.
• Build, mentor, and lead a cybersecurity team while establishing evaluation processes and quality standards.
• Represent the company as a cybersecurity authority collaborating with AI labs, researchers, government, and AI safety communities.

Requirements

• Location: Must be able to work remotely within the U.S.
• Deep expertise in offensive cybersecurity, vulnerability research, exploit development, penetration testing, malware analysis, or related fields.
• Experience assessing advanced cyber threats and AI-enabled cyber capabilities, especially in critical infrastructure domains.
• Hands-on experience with adversarial evaluations, AI red-teaming, LLM security research, or building evaluation datasets for frontier AI systems.
• Comfortable working at the intersection of cybersecurity research, AI safety, and machine learning engineering.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python, Go, Rust, or similar systems programming languages.

Nice to have

• Experience developing machine learning models, AI security classifiers, or automated cyber detection systems.
• Experience working with frontier AI labs, national security organizations, or leading cybersecurity research teams.
• Background in threat intelligence, autonomous cyber operations, AI agent security, or AI governance.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive compensation with performance bonus and equity package.
• 401k with up to 4% matching.
• 28 days annual leave including vacation and holidays.
• Health, dental, and vision coverage.
• Flexible work arrangements.
• Visa sponsorship available for exceptional candidates.

Hiring process

• Application review with response within 10 days.
• Online technical screen (15 min) with a job-relevant exercise.
• Introductory call (30 min) to discuss fit.
• Technical interview (90 min) including live coding and AI-related tasks.
• Experience and culture interview (60 min).
• Reference checks with 3-5 provided references.
• Offer stage if mutual fit is confirmed.