Research Staff, Adversarial Intelligence

US, Remotefull timeRemote

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senior

$145k–$170k

H1B: no

horizon3ai Research Staff member conducting research at the intersection of AI, cybersecurity, and systems security. Develop prototypes and experiments to address real security challenges faced by Horizon3 and its customers.

Responsibilities

Conduct research on problems at the intersection of AI, cybersecurity, and computer systems.
Formulate research questions from real technical challenges faced by Horizon3 and its customers.
Design and run experiments that test research hypotheses in controlled and representative environments.
Build research prototypes and implement methods with sufficient quality to support meaningful evaluation.
Study and evaluate modern AI techniques, including large language models, agentic systems, reasoning methods, learning algorithms, and related approaches when relevant to the research problem.
Analyze security systems, attack paths, telemetry, graphs, configurations, and other real-world security data.
Read and critically evaluate academic and technical literature, identify relevant ideas, and determine how they apply to Horizon3's research problems.
Work closely with researchers, attack engineers, security engineers, product teams, and other technical groups to understand problems and evaluate potential solutions.
Document research methods, experiments, results, and limitations clearly and rigorously.
Communicate research findings through internal presentations, technical reports, prototypes, and, when appropriate, academic publications or external research outputs.
Develop greater research independence over time, including the ability to identify promising questions, propose technical approaches, and drive portions of a research project.
What You’ll Bring