Research Staff, Adversarial Intelligence

The role

You will conduct research at the intersection of super intelligence, systems security, and agentic systems for security. You will investigate technical problems and turn research ideas into methods, prototypes, experiments, and systems.

What you will do

• Conduct research on problems at the intersection of AI, cybersecurity, and computer systems.
• Formulate research questions from real technical challenges.
• Design and run experiments that test research hypotheses.
• Build research prototypes and implement methods.
• Study and evaluate modern AI techniques.
• Analyze security systems, attack paths, telemetry, graphs, configurations, and other real-world security data.
• Read and critically evaluate academic and technical literature.
• Work closely with researchers, attack engineers, security engineers, and product teams.
• Document research methods, experiments, results, and limitations.
• Communicate research findings through presentations, reports, prototypes, and publications.

Required qualifications

• Strong foundations in computer science, including the ability to reason about algorithms, systems, software, and data.
• Technical depth in systems security, super intelligence / machine learning, or a closely related area.
• Strong programming skills and the ability to translate technical ideas into working implementations.
• Ability to design careful experiments, analyze results, and distinguish evidence from intuition.
• Curiosity and willingness to investigate unfamiliar technical areas in depth.
• Interest in both research and engineering.
• Ability to receive technical feedback, revise your approach, and learn from other researchers and engineers.
• Good technical judgment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• A degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent technical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience in systems security, offensive security, defensive security, penetration testing, vulnerability research, operating systems, networks, distributed systems, cloud security, or related areas.
• Experience with machine learning, deep learning, large language models, AI agents, reinforcement learning, planning, search, graph-based reasoning, or related AI methods.
• Experience conducting research through an academic research group, thesis, independent research project, internship, industrial research project, or comparable technical work.
• Experience designing experimental infrastructure, benchmarks, test environments, or evaluation frameworks.
• Experience building systems that operate on real-world data, environments, or security infrastructure.
• Familiarity with security concepts such as attack paths, Active Directory, cloud environments, identity systems, network security, security controls, or adversarial techniques.
• Strong research publications, conference presentations, open-source contributions, or other evidence of high-quality technical work.

Benefits

• Equity package in the form of stock options
• Health, vision & dental insurance for you and your family
• Flexible vacation policy
• Generous parental leave

About the company

Horizon3.ai is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company dedicated to the mission of enabling organizations to proactively find, fix and verify exploitable attack vectors. The team is a fusion of former U.S. Special Operations cyber operators, startup engineers & operators, and formerly frustrated cybersecurity practitioners.