Senior Application Security Researcher
Employment Information
Report this job
Job expired or something wrong with this job?
Job Description
Senior Application Security Researcher advancing AI-driven application vulnerability detection. Building agentic penetration-testing capabilities with engineers, researchers, and AI/data scientists.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct hands-on application security research
- Push modern application security forward
- Work with engineers, researchers, and AI/data scientists on next-generation detection
- Develop autonomous, agentic penetration-testing capabilities
- Build and break security solutions
- Take research ideas from prototype through production
- Measure detection accuracy and reduce false positives
- Explain complex attack paths to engineers and product managers
Requirements:
- 5+ years hands-on in offensive security, vulnerability research, or application security
- Deep understanding of web application and API vulnerabilities, including business-logic flaws and multi-step attack chains
- Strong coding skills in Python, Go, or similar, with production-quality code shipped
- Experience building or tuning detection logic (SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets, or custom rule engines) and reducing false positives
- Solid grasp of CI/CD pipelines, containers, Kubernetes, and at least one major cloud provider
- Hands-on use of LLMs / AI models for security tasks, with judgment to measure where they help and fail
- Comfort with large datasets and SQL, BigQuery, or similar
- Ability to take research ideas from prototype to production with minimal guidance
- Clear written communication to explain complex attack paths to engineers and product managers
- M.Sc. in Computer Science, Cyber Security, or a related field
- Preferred: published research, CVEs, conference talks, or bug bounty track record
- Preferred: experience building AI agents or evaluation frameworks for LLMs
- Preferred: background in exploit development, red teaming, or penetration testing
- Preferred: code analysis techniques such as taint analysis, call graphs, or reachability
- Preferred: contributions to open-source security tools
Benefits:
- Remote work
- Full-time employment
Similar Jobs
Security Engineer – Agentic AI
Security Engineer securing agent gateways, tools, models, and data flows. Building production controls for BRAHMA AI’s enterprise media technology platform.
Senior Cybersecurity Specialist
Abbott Senior Cybersecurity Specialist conducting threat modeling and risk assessments. Securing healthcare product architectures and supporting regulatory cybersecurity activities.
Oracle Cloud Security Expert
Oracle Cloud Security Expert designing and implementing Oracle SaaS security controls for Highstreet. Managing roles, audits, access governance, patch testing, and compliance.
Security Specialist
Security Specialist conducting NIST-based vendor risk assessments for North Carolina government IT. Delivering inventories, risk registries, and assessment reports.
Senior Information Security Engineer
Senior Information Security Engineer building secure modules for Walrus’s B2B payment verification platform. Designing authentication, payments, and reputation capabilities with the core engineering team.
Security Engineer
Security Engineer securing Noxtua’s sovereign Legal AI cloud infrastructure, GPU systems, and AI workloads. Building DevSecOps controls and supporting ISO 27001, BSI C5, and TISAX compliance.
Cybersecurity Consultant
Part-time remote cybersecurity consultant securing Scopic’s software delivery, cloud environments and compliance. Building Secure SDLC practices and mentoring the internal Security Lead.
Senior Security Engineer
Senior Security Engineer protecting Technosylva’s cloud-hosted platform through cloud, AI, vulnerability, and incident security. Automating controls and advising infrastructure, platform, and IT teams.
Senior Strategic Security Advisor
Senior cybersecurity advisor guiding regulated organizations through CMMC, risk, and compliance. CIT delivers managed IT, cybersecurity, cloud, and custom technology solutions.
Senior Security Engineer – Identity & Endpoint
Senior Security Engineer designing identity, endpoint, and device-trust controls for Fortellar’s enterprise IT consulting clients. Leading high-risk Microsoft security remediation and change programs.
Offensive Cybersecurity Engineer – RL Environments for AI Evaluation
Offensive cybersecurity engineers building and hardening reinforcement-learning environments. Evaluating frontier AI models for Terac, a platform connecting vetted experts with AI researchers and labs.
Senior System & Information Security Administrator
Senior administrator owning global servers, networks, security, backups, and end-user support. Coordinating external IT providers for a Bulgaria-based company.
Cybersecurity & Information Assurance Specialist – Federal Health IT
Cybersecurity specialist maintaining DoD information assurance records and security compliance. Supporting federal healthcare technology readiness through STIG, ACAS, eMASS, and access reviews.
Information Security System Specialist – ATO Lead
ATO Lead preparing VA records application authority-to-operate packages under the Risk Management Framework. Supporting security controls, continuous monitoring, remediation, and Zero Trust governance remotely.
Chartered or Principal Enterprise Advisor – Security Architecture
Security architecture advisor assuring cloud, hybrid and on-premises environments for Intelance, a UK cybersecurity and advisory firm. Delivering threat models, design reviews and client-ready assurance reports.
Senior Baseline Security Engineer, CIS, STIGs
Senior security engineer building and validating CIS/STIG baselines for phia’s federal cybersecurity clients. Mapping configurations to NIST, FISMA, and agency security controls.
Senior Security Architect
Senior Security Architect advancing First Hawaiian Bank’s enterprise security architecture. Securing hybrid cloud, on-premises, and AI/ML technologies while supporting regulatory compliance.
Staff Security Engineer – Enterprise Security
Staff Security Engineer securing ServiceNow’s AI-powered enterprise SaaS platform across cloud, on-premises, and isolated infrastructure. Supporting Protected B workloads and Canadian government compliance.
Director of Security, Risk
Director leading security governance, compliance, and risk programs at SentiLink, which verifies identities and flags fraud. Owning FedRAMP, SOC 2, PCI DSS, and third-party risk.
Vulnerability Management Engineer, Security Assessment – Qualys VMDR
Vulnerability engineer operating Qualys VMDR, security assessments, and remediation tracking. Supporting Gruve’s enterprise cybersecurity and cloud infrastructure services through global 24x7 operations.