Senior Threat Hunter

SimSpace Corporation

2d•$135,000 - $150,000

About The Position

SimSpace is seeking a highly motivated cybersecurity professional to mentor and assess global security teams across a range of cybersecurity skill areas. The Senior Threat Hunter will help develop authentic regional scenarios, manage events, and bring deep technical expertise to customer engagements. The role is part of a team that delivers technical instructional content, designs tests for AI agents and models, and facilitates cyber defense exercises for SimSpace and its customers. When facilitating exercises, the Senior Threat Hunter teaches security concepts, demonstrates hands-on use of open-source and commercial security tools, and draws on established and emerging techniques used by Cybersecurity Incident Response Teams to defend networks against advanced threats. The role also advises customers on integrating and testing AI agent capabilities, develops threat-hunting tactics and strategies, and works with range operations to create toolsets and realistic cyber threat scenarios. This position supports customer security-team assessments and events, with travel estimated at up to 25%. SimSpace describes its culture as human-centered, collaborative, and focused on continuous learning and professional growth. The advertised base salary range is $135,000–$150,000, with annual bonuses potentially tied to company performance and individual contributions.

Requirements

Experience generating unique cyber threat research and developing successful proposals for conference training and engagements.
Deep understanding of AI agents, including orchestration of agent decision loops, tool access frameworks, and memory systems optimized for threat hunting and proactive security operations.
Direct experience performing threat hunting in active corporate environments.
At least 6 years of experience in a technical role in Security Operations, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Offensive Security/Red Team, or Cyber Threat Intelligence.
Experience analyzing host, network, and application telemetry for indicators of attack across the cyber kill chain.
Experience with very large datasets and log analysis tools, including tools such as Splunk, Elastic, Python, Pandas, SQL, Hadoop, and Hue.
Experience consuming and analyzing Cyber Threat Intelligence and applying it through enrichment, correlation, and attribution to produce actionable takeaways for threat hunts.
Experience setting up and/or troubleshooting security stacks.
Familiarity with offensive security strategies and assessment methodology.
Ability to communicate threat-hunt objectives to mixed technical and non-technical audiences and distill complex information into digestible explanations of risk.
Hands-on experience demonstrating the hunt for indicators of compromise in enterprise-scale EDR and SIEM tools, including Splunk, Elastic, and CrowdStrike.
Previous experience performing digital forensics or incident response on major security incidents.
Demonstrated self-starter with a strong desire to help others improve and build the team.

Responsibilities

Mentor and develop advanced threat-hunting tactics and strategies for global clients and international organizations.
Lead technical client engagements involving emerging technologies and cybersecurity safeguards in large enterprise networks, including Operational Technologies (OT), the Internet of Things (IoT), and Large Language Models (LLM).
Advise customers on identifying, integrating, and testing AI agentic capabilities for cybersecurity before deployment.
Work with the range operations team to develop toolsets and cyber threat scenarios that model real-world threat-defense scenarios.
Balance competing organizational requirements and priorities to build consensus and drive results.
Use Blue Team experience to establish parsing rules, dashboards, and tuning for enterprise security tools in the cyber range platform.
Take initiative on day-to-day tasks, lead projects, and mentor team members.
Work effectively across a complex, geographically dispersed organization.
Support assessments of customer security teams and customer events; travel is estimated at up to 25%.
Deliver instructional content and facilitate cyber defense exercises, teaching security concepts and demonstrating practical use of open-source and commercial security tools.
Design tests to develop AI agents and models.
Explain threat-hunt objectives to technical and non-technical audiences and communicate associated risks clearly.

Benefits

Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Savings plans, with coverage starting on day one
Company-paid counseling, coaching, and family resources through Spring Health
401(k) retirement savings plan with company match
Flexible vacation
Company holidays
Dedicated health and wellness days
Paid parental leave
Equity stock options at hire and annual performance-based grants
Subsidized Peloton membership plans and equipment discounts
LinkedIn Learning membership
Monthly reimbursements for teammate connections through the SocialSpace Community
Legal plan coverage
Pet insurance
Wellness reimbursements
Potential annual bonuses tied to company performance and individual contributions