Senior Red Team Engineer: Threat Intel & AI Security

Grab; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Term Life Insurance

Medical Insurance

GrabFlex benefits package

Parental leave

Birthday leave

LASA volunteering leave

Grabber Assistance Programme

FlexWork arrangements

Job summary

Grab, a Southeast Asia superapp, seeks a Senior Security Engineer for Red Team & Threat Intel to bolster security across cloud, CI/CD, endpoints, and AI systems from Kuala Lumpur. You will design realistic attack simulations, develop tooling, and turn findings into actionable security improvements.

You will report to the Red Team & Threat Intel team leader and collaborate with engineering, security, and risk teams to strengthen detection, response, and hardening while applying intelligence-led

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, IT, or related field.
• 4+ years of offensive security, red teaming, security engineering, exploit development, cloud security, or related roles.
• Hands-on experience developing command-and-control tooling, implants, loaders, payloads, or offensive automation.
• Experience assessing CI/CD systems, source control platforms, build pipelines, artefact repositories, secrets handling, and deployment workflows.
• Knowledge of cloud environments, including identity, networking, logging, container platforms, and common privilege escalation paths.
• Experience assessing AI-enabled products, internal AI platforms, or agentic systems in adversarial scenarios, and using AI tools to improve security research, workflows, and output quality.
• Experience producing or using Threat Intel to connect external incident trends, adversary tradecraft, and internal security signals to practical security decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end red team operations, and intelligence-led Purple Team exercises with the Blue Team across cloud, CI/CD, endpoints, identity, apps.
• Develop command-and-control tooling, implants, payload delivery mechanisms, and operator workflows for authorised security exercises.
• Red team AI systems, including internal copilots, agentic workflows, AI-assisted operational tools, and MLOps environments.
• Use AI tools to improve research, automation, payload development, reporting, planning, and defense coverage analysis.
• Translate red team findings and threat intelligence into engineering actions; partner with defenders, platform teams, and Vulnerability Management to improve detection, response, hardening, and security architecture.
• Collaborate on offensive security tradecraft, tool development, operational safety, documentation, and adversary simulations.
• Contribute to Red Team and Threat Intel roadmap; identify attack techniques and evaluate new tooling.
• Produce Threat Intel assessments from incidents or internal improvements; advise leadership on impact, priority, and actions.

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, IT, or related major

Job description

Grab, a Southeast Asia superapp, seeks a Senior Security Engineer for Red Team & Threat Intel to bolster security across cloud, CI/CD, endpoints, and AI systems from Kuala Lumpur. You will design realistic attack simulations, develop tooling, and turn findings into actionable security improvements.

You will report to the Red Team & Threat Intel team leader and collaborate with engineering, security, and risk teams to strengthen detection, response, and hardening while applying intelligence-led