AI Security Researcher - Red Team, VAPT & Agentic Security

o9 Solutions, Inc.; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,000,000 - 4,000,000; Full time

Job summary

o9 Solutions, Inc. seeks an AI Offensive Security Researcher to lead the security of its GenAI platform and autonomous agent ecosystem.

You will conduct AI-specific VAPT engagements and strengthen detection by feeding insights from red team activities into SOC coverage gaps. The role requires 4–12+ years in security, hands-on experience with LLM attacks, and knowledge of MLOps or cloud security to shape the security posture of a complex, scalable AI environment across multiple customer

Qualifications

• 4–12+ years in application security, AI security, or offensive security research.
• At least one demonstrable AI-specific assessment or published finding.
• Hands-on offensive depth across LLM attack surfaces: jailbreaks, multi-modal injection, agentic control gaps.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute AI-specific VAPT engagements (prompt injection chains, RAG pipeline poisoning, agent identity spoofing).
• Lead AI red team exercises and tabletop scenarios with actionable remediation guidance.
• Build and maintain AI security automation tooling and detection rule generators.

Skills

AI security

VAPT engagements

Red team

Threat modeling

Offensive security

Tools

MITRE ATT&CK

Job description

Role: AI Offensive Security Researcher - Red Team, VAPT & Agentic Security

About the role...

We are looking for a AI offensive Security researcher / Senior AI Security Engineer/Architect with MLSecOps experience to lead the next generation of AI-native security at o9.

You will own two parallel missions: securing o9’s GenAI platform and agentic AI ecosystem from emerging threats, and building AI/ML-driven capabilities that transform how our security operations detect, predict, and respond to adversarial activity across 500+ customer environments.

Our security platform ingests 22 billion events per month across 176,000+ hosts, 266 Kubernetes clusters, and 3,042 cloud accounts. The intelligence hidden in that telemetry remains largely unmined. Simultaneously, o9’s GenAI platform is scaling rapidly - production AI agents, RAG pipelines, MCP tool integrations, and autonomous planning workflows that introduce a fundamentally new class of security risk. This role exists to address both.

What you’ll do:

• Design and execute AI-specific VAPT engagements - prompt injection chains, RAG pipeline poisoning, agent identity spoofing, and tool-layer exploitation across MCP and A2A boundaries
• Lead structured AI red team exercises and scenario-based tabletops, delivering CVSS - scored, MITRE ATLAS mapped findings with actionable remediation guidance
• Build and maintain AI security automation tooling: prompt fuzzing harnesses, guardrail regression test suites, and detection rule generators fed by red team TTP libraries
• Contribute to threat modeling for agentic systems -mapping trust boundaries, privilege escalation paths, and blast radius across autonomous agent clusters
• Feed red team findings back into detection engineering as quality inputs, closing the loop between offensive discovery and SOC coverage gaps

What you'll have:

• 4-12+ years in application security, AI/ML security, or offensive security research with at least one demonstrable AI-specific assessment or published finding
• Hands-on offensive depth across LLM attack surfaces: jailbreaks, multi-modal injection, agentic control gaps, and indirect prompt injection
• Working knowledge of MLOps pipelines, ML engineering concepts, or cloud security as contextual grounding
• CFP submissions, responsible disclosure history, or published AI security research is a strong differentiator

What we’ll do for you:

• Flat organization: With a very strong entrepreneurial culture (and no corporate politics).
• Great people and unlimited fun at work.
• Possibility to really make a difference in a scale-up environment.
• Support network: Work with a team you can learn from every day.
• Diversity: We pride ourselves on our international working environment.
• DavOs Insight (Turning VUCA into value with Neuro-Symbolic AI): https://l1nk.dev/ngQoe
• Feel part of A team: https://youtu.be/QbjtgaCyhes?feature=shared