Senior Threat Hunter

SimSpace Corporation

1d•$120,000 - $150,000•Hybrid

About The Position

SimSpace is seeking a highly motivated Cybersecurity Professional to serve as a Senior AI-Centric Threat Hunter. This role involves mentoring and assessing global security teams in cybersecurity skills, with a focus on integrating AI agents into cybersecurity workflows. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, problem-solving abilities, a desire for hands-on technical work, and a drive for excellence. The Senior AI-Centric Threat Hunter will develop methodologies for AI agent integration, design experiments for AI agent and model development, deliver customer training, and facilitate Blue Team exercises. Responsibilities include teaching security concepts, demonstrating practical use of security tools, and employing both established and cutting-edge techniques for network defense against advanced cyber threats.

Requirements

Demonstrated proficiency in AI/ML engineering, including practical application and experimentation with AI agents, LLM APIs.
Possess a deep understanding of AI agents, specializing in the orchestration of agent decision loops, tool access frameworks, and memory systems optimized for threat hunting and proactive security operations.
Architecting RAG Systems: Hands-on experience designing and deploying Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines to ground LLMs in internal threat intelligence, historical incident data, and enterprise security policies while eliminating hallucinations.
Advanced proficiency in Python and standard data science/AI libraries, alongside strong scripting skills for data manipulation (Pandas, Numpy).
Familiarity with open-source AI ecosystems (Hugging Face) and frameworks for running local, privacy-safe LLMs (Ollama, vLLM).
6+ years of experience in a technical role in the areas of 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 stages of the cyber kill chain.
Direct experience working with very large datasets and log analysis tools including but not limited to: Splunk, Elastic, Python, Pandas, SQL, Hadoop, Hue.
Ability to apply Cyber Threat Intelligence through enrichment, correlation, and attribution.
Experience with setup and/or troubleshooting of security stacks.
Familiarity with offensive security strategies and assessment methodology.
Experience explaining threat hunt objectives to mixed technical and non-technical audiences and ability to communicate associated risk by distilling complex content into digestible information.
Hands-on technical experience and ability to demonstrate hunting for indicators of compromise in numerous enterprise scale EDR and SIEM tools to include Splunk, Elastic, Crowdstrike, and many other major vendors.
Previous experience performing digital forensics or indecent response on major security incidents.
Demonstrated self-starter with a constant desire to help others improve and build the team.

Responsibilities

Lead an internal initiative to research and integrate candidate agentic capabilities into test environments.
Serve as a consultant to customers looking to integrate agentic capabilities into their cybersecurity enterprise in how to identify, integrate and test capabilities prior to deployment.
Keep up with industry evolution around AI and cybersecurity operations reviewing publications and standards.
Bring world class mentorship of advanced threat hunting tactics and strategy for our global clients and international organizations.
Utilize years of Blue Teaming experience to establish parsing rules, dashboards, and tuning of numerous enterprise security tools in our cyber range platform to exceed client goals and objectives.
Work with our range operations team to develop toolsets and scenarios within a cybersecurity range to model real-world threat defense scenarios.
Utilize foresight and awareness of overall business priorities when dealing with competing requirements and needs from across the organization in order to build consensus and drive results.
Takes initiative in day-to-day tasks, leads projects, and mentors other team members.
Navigate and work effectively across a complex, geographically dispersed organization.
Support assessment of customer security teams and customer events (travel estimated up to 25-30%).

Benefits

Base salary range: $120,000 - $150,000
Opportunity for commission tied to company performance and individual contributions.
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits.
Savings plans—coverage starts on day one!
Access to company-paid counseling, coaching, and resources for you and your family through Spring Health.
401(k)-retirement savings plan featuring a company match.
Unlimited vacation and dedicated health & wellness days.
Paid leave plans for parental leave.
Equity stock options at hire, with annual performance-based grants.
Employee referral program ($1,500–$3,500 for every qualified hire).
Peloton Interactive Wellness Program (Full- and partial-subsidized membership plans and equipment discounts).
LinkedIn Learning membership.
Monthly reimbursements for meaningful connections with teammates through our SocialSpace Community.
Legal plan coverage.
Pet insurance.
Wellness reimbursements.