Senior AI Researcher - Agentic Endpoint Security(Cortex)
Core
Building large-scale AI agents that reason over software, code, endpoint activity, and security signals to detect malicious behavior, uncover vulnerabilities, and make autonomous security decisions in real-world production environments.
Role type
Senior AI Researcher (Agentic Endpoint Security)
Builds
AI-native security systems, autonomous agents, evaluation harnesses, and reliability infrastructure for threat detection and response.
Domain
Cybersecurity + Large Language Models (LLMs) + Autonomous Systems
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Building and operating AI agents/autonomous systems in production, LLMs and agent frameworks, experimental design and iteration, Python engineering, distributed AI system optimization, translating research to production systems
Preferred skills
Cybersecurity background (malware analysis, vulnerability research), adversarial behavior intuition, offensive security research, CTFs/bug bounties, building evaluation systems/benchmarks at scale
Technologies
Python, LLMs, agent frameworks, retrieval systems, multi-agent orchestration, inference optimization tools
Responsibilities
Build AI agents to reason over security signals and detect threats; Develop tooling for autonomous threat investigation; Design experiments to evaluate frontier models in adversarial scenarios; Engineer reliability infrastructure for autonomous agents; Optimize large distributed AI systems for scale and performance; Prototype new reasoning and autonomy approaches; Partner with security researchers to translate domain expertise into AI workflows
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategic influence
