AI-Driven Security Research Engineer

Artemis Security; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Artemis Security is seeking a Security Research Engineer to drive detection research, threat hunting, and AI-powered security automation. You will work at the intersection of security expertise and cutting-edge AI—researching data sources, building detections, investigating real incidents, and engaging directly with customers to deliver security value.

This is a hands‑on, high‑impact role where your work directly shapes what threats we catch and how we catch them.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on cybersecurity experience.
• Experience in incident response across cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and identity providers (Okta, Entra ID).
• Knowledge of threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures and ability to uncover threat actor activity across environments.
• Strong experience with log-based analysis and identifying malicious activity across diverse log sources.
• Ability to translate security research into actionable detections or threat hunt investigations.
• Strong communication skills—explaining technical findings to engineers and customers.
• Experience with detection engineering at scale.
• Bonus: SOC environment or Managed Detection and Response experience; familiarity with SIEM/EDR/SOAR; customer-facing technical experience; experience with AI tools and models.

Responsibilities

• Develop AI-powered detection tooling - Build automation that leverages AI to accelerate detection creation, tuning, and validation at scale.
• Conduct security research - Analyze cloud, identity, and SaaS data sources (AWS CloudTrail, Okta, Entra ID, and more) to extract security value and identify detection opportunities.
• Perform attack simulations - Execute authorized attack simulations to validate detection coverage and identify gaps in our defenses.
• Hunt for threats - Proactively search for malicious activity across customer environments using our platform and tooling.
• Investigate potential cases - Analyze security incidents to demonstrate product value, refine detection logic, and deliver actionable findings.
• Engage with customers - Join customer calls to present analysis results, walk through findings, and gather feedback that shapes the product.
• Tune customer detections - Reduce false positives and improve detection accuracy based on real‑world data and customer context.
• Build investigation automation - Create AI-powered tools that scale investigation and threat hunting workflows across our platform.

Skills

Incident response

Cloud security

Threat hunting

Detection engineering

Log analysis

Communication

Threat intelligence

AI tools familiarity

Tools

SIEM

EDR

SOAR

Job description

Artemis Security is seeking a Security Research Engineer to drive detection research, threat hunting, and AI-powered security automation. You will work at the intersection of security expertise and cutting-edge AI—researching data sources, building detections, investigating real incidents, and engaging directly with customers to deliver security value.

This is a hands‑on, high‑impact role where your work directly shapes what threats we catch and how we catch them.