Cybersecurity Engineer, Mobile & AI Application (AI)

Location: Hybrid in Austin, TX, United States; office attendance expectations will be confirmed by the Hiring Manager. Travel required 5–10% of the time. The position is performed in an office setting.

Salary: $118,700–$183,600 USD per year; may include sales incentives, bonus, and equity.

Company

hirify.global is a global payments technology company facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories.

What you will do

• Develop, maintain, support, and innovate internal cybersecurity tools, automated testing tools, and frameworks.
• Perform ethical penetration testing and hands-on security assurance for mobile and Mac assets, including threat hypotheses, reverse engineering, network interception, and attack simulation.
• Create mobile security guidelines, requirements, standards, secure coding practices, training, metrics, and controls for product development and enterprise mobile deployment.
• Analyze security gaps in mobile technologies, frameworks, SDKs, and emerging technologies, then define remediation practices and security standards.
• Integrate architectural risk assessment and threat modeling into the software development lifecycle and collaborate with product, solution, internal, and third-party development teams.
• Use AI and implement solutions in internal cloud platforms to optimize security processes, improve software development efficiency, and support business-as-usual activities.

Requirements

• 2+ years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor’s degree, or 5+ years of relevant work experience; Master’s graduates must have 2+ years of relevant work experience.
• Strong experience with one or more of Node, Python, Java, or Swift.
• Understanding of current AI technologies, protocols, and AI development tooling, including Claude Code; experience with cloud and local LLM models.
• Understanding of the OWASP Top 10 and CWE 25, with a proven record of implementing and integrating remediation strategies.
• Understanding of mobile application and platform security concepts.
• Excellent penetration testing, application risk assessment, and risk categorization skills, including reverse engineering, network interception and manipulation, offensive and defensive attacks, and database and cross-site scripting injection attacks.
• Strong communication, grammar, problem-solving, analytical, operational, client service, negotiation, and consensus-building skills.
• Ability to work independently, adapt to changing roles and responsibilities, demonstrate leadership, and operate effectively in a remote management dynamic.

Nice to have

• 3+ years of experience with a Bachelor’s degree or more than 2 years with an advanced degree.
• 2–3 years of professional experience in a cybersecurity-related field.
• Deep mobile platform security knowledge, including advanced SDK and mobile wallet concepts.
• Strong experience with Docker and containerized deployments.
• Experience with Burp Suite, IDA Pro, APKTool, Hopper, HP Fortify, Checkmarx, Cycript, Xposed, Charles, dex2jar, Kali Linux, Wireshark, or other mobile security and penetration testing tools.
• Familiarity with agile development and integrating secure development practices.
• Bi-/multilingual ability.
• Strategic, visionary, and innovative thinking.

Culture & Benefits

• Flexible, fast-paced Mobile & Mac Security team operating similarly to a mini startup within hirify.global.
• Inclusive environment valuing diverse perspectives, motivation, and contributions regardless of certification or diploma.
• Benefits may include medical, dental, vision, 401(k), FSA/HSA, life insurance, paid time off, and wellness programs.
• Work hours vary according to department needs.