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Lead Vulnerability Research Engineer, IT Security

Saint Petersburg, Florida - United States💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-03 → 2026-09-25

Core

Lead threat-focused vulnerability research, validation, and automation to reduce enterprise technology risk across applications, APIs, cloud, and emerging AI technologies.

Role type

Senior IC vulnerability research engineer (security automation & AI governance)

Builds

Production vulnerability detection content, validation scripts, automation integrations, and threat-informed prioritization models

Domain

Cybersecurity / Vulnerability Management / Threat Intelligence

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis

Required skills

Vulnerability research & validation, exploitability analysis, security automation, Python programming, AI-assisted security tooling evaluation, cloud security (AWS/Azure/GCP), CI/CD integration, threat intelligence analysis, secure AI workflow governance

Preferred skills

Penetration testing, SAST/DAST/IAST/SCA tuning, API security, container security, software supply chain security, threat modeling

Technologies

Python, PowerShell, JavaScript/TypeScript, Go, Java, C#, shell, REST/GraphQL, GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Jira, Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, GCP

Responsibilities

Lead threat-focused vulnerability research across enterprise applications, APIs, OS, network devices, cloud, containers, and AI-enabled technologies; Analyze threat intelligence and internal telemetry to identify credible vulnerabilities; Perform authorized technical research to validate conditions, exploitability, and impact; Develop safe detection content (checks, signatures, scripts) and production automation for finding lifecycle management; Create threat-informed prioritization models incorporating adversary behavior and asset criticality; Evaluate and govern AI-assisted security workflows for accuracy, hallucination, and supply-chain risks; Mentor engineers and establish research standards and playbooks

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities

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