Senior AI-Centric Threat Hunter
Remote · United States
Job Summary
Senior AI-Centric Threat Hunter on SimSpace’s Evaluation Team leads research to integrate agentic capabilities into test environments, consults with customers on integrating AI agents into cybersecurity operations, and designs experiments to develop/test AI agents. Responsibilities include teaching security concepts, demonstrating hands-on use of security tools, developing toolsets and scenarios within a cybersecurity range, and mentoring team members. Requires hands-on technical experience with threat hunting, AI/ML, RAG pipelines, and familiarity with enterprise security stacks; travel up to 25-30% is expected.
Required Qualifications
- 6+ years of experience in Security Operations, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Offensive Security/Red Team, or Cyber Threat Intelligence
- Proficiency in AI/ML engineering with practical application of AI agents and LLMs
- Experience architecting Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines
- Strong Python and data science libraries (Pandas, Numpy)
- Experience with open-source AI ecosystems (Hugging Face) and local LLM frameworks (Ollama, vLLM)
- Experience with large datasets and log analysis tools (Splunk, Elastic, SQL, Hadoop)
- Ability to communicate risk and threat hunt objectives to mixed audiences
- Hands-on hunting for indicators of compromise in enterprise EDR/SIEM tools
- Experience with digital forensics or incident response on major security incidents
- Self-starter with collaboration across a geographically dispersed organization
- Willingness to travel nationally/internationally (up to 25-30%)
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