AI-Driven Vulnerability Research Lead

100 Raymond James & Associates, Inc.; Saint Petersburg (FL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

100 Raymond James & Associates, Inc. seeks a Lead Vulnerability Research Engineer to drive threat-informed vulnerability research and remediation at scale within the Cyber Threat Center.

You will combine offensive security, software engineering, and data analytics to build repeatable detection and prioritization capabilities. The role emphasizes AI-assisted techniques, rigorous validation, and collaboration across threat intelligence, security operations, and cloud engineering teams to reduce

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on vulnerability research or security tooling development.
• Experience applying AI-assisted security tooling to vulnerability triage and remediation.
• Ability to communicate technical risk clearly to developers, architects, executives, and auditors.

Responsibilities

• Lead threat-focused vulnerability research across enterprise applications, APIs, operating systems, network devices, cloud services, containers, and open-source components.
• Develop safe detection, validation content, and remediation guidance with repeatable workflows.
• Create production-quality automation and integrations across scanners, inventories, and CI/CD platforms.

Skills

Threat research

Python

AI-assisted security

Security automation

CI/CD integration

Cloud security

Communication

Education

High School (HS)

Tools

SAST

DAST

IAST

GitHub/GitLab

CI/CD tooling

Job description

100 Raymond James & Associates, Inc. seeks a Lead Vulnerability Research Engineer to drive threat-informed vulnerability research and remediation at scale within the Cyber Threat Center.

You will combine offensive security, software engineering, and data analytics to build repeatable detection and prioritization capabilities. The role emphasizes AI-assisted techniques, rigorous validation, and collaboration across threat intelligence, security operations, and cloud engineering teams to reduce