AI & Offensive Security Analyst - Vice President

Citi; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 125,760 - 188,640; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision coverage

401(k)

Paid time off packages

Wellness programs

Job summary

Citi is seeking an AI & Offensive Security Analyst to join their Advanced Pentesting & Research team in Irving, Texas. This role involves deep vulnerability research, designing AI security tools, and conducting penetration testing. Ideal candidates have extensive experience in Cyber Security and demonstrate strong software engineering skills.

Benefits include comprehensive health coverage, 401(k), and generous paid time off. This is a full-time position offering a competitive salary range of $125,760 – $188,640.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Cyber Security or related field.
• Hands-on experience with security and software engineering tooling.
• Strong proficiency in penetration testing across various domains.

Responsibilities

• Perform deep vulnerability research on emerging attack surfaces.
• Design and maintain AI harnesses for security tasks.
• Conduct offensive security assessments and penetration testing.

Skills

Vulnerability research

AI security tooling

Penetration testing

Software engineering

R&D mindset

Education

Master’s degree in Computer Science or Cyber Security

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Cyber Security

Tools

Burp Suite

SAST/DAST scanners

Claude Code

GH Copilot

Job description

Overview of the Role

Citi’s Enterprise Operations & Technology teams provide financial products and services across 160 countries. The Chief Information Security Office (CISO) leads a program that ensures the safety of clients, revenue, employees, and proprietary data. The Advanced Pentesting & Research team seeks an AI & Offensive Security Analyst to drive offensive security research, vulnerability discovery, and AI‑powered security tooling.

Responsibilities

• Perform deep vulnerability research on emerging attack surfaces including LLM‑based systems, AI pipelines, model inference endpoints, and prompt injection vectors.
• Design, build, and maintain AI harnesses capable of performing security‑related tasks, including autonomous vulnerability scanning agents, AI‑driven exploit classification systems, intelligent threat detection models, and LLM‑assisted code analysis engines.
• Research and prototype novel attack techniques and defensive countermeasures, contributing findings to internal knowledge bases, threat models, and security engineering standards – driven by a proactive R&D mindset and continuous lookout for new research opportunities.
• Analyze source code using both manual review and AI‑augmented static analysis to identify and mitigate security weaknesses, logic flaws, and injection vulnerabilities across polyglot codebases.
• Conduct offensive security assessments and penetration testing against applications, infrastructure, and AI/ML systems to identify exploitable vulnerabilities before adversaries do.
• Identify opportunities to automate and standardize information security controls using AI‑driven pipelines, reducing manual effort and improving detection fidelity across supported groups.

Required Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in Cyber Security or related field.
• Master’s degree in computer science, Cyber Security or related field with a minimum of 3 years of experience in a penetration testing or application development role OR Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Cyber Security or related field with a minimum of 5 years of experience in a penetration testing or application development role.
• Hands‑on experience with security & software engineering tooling: Burp Suite, SAST/DAST scanners, Claude Code, GH Copilot & custom exploit development from CVE advisories.
• Demonstrated proficiency in penetration testing across web, network, and binary domains.
• Strong R&D mindset – demonstrated ability to independently identify new research opportunities, follow emerging academic and industry security research, and translate findings into actionable tooling or defensive improvements.
• Good proficiency in reading, understanding, and working with code and its features – including the ability to navigate unfamiliar codebases, reason about code behaviour, identify logic flaws, and leverage language‑specific constructs in security analysis and tool development.

Education

• Bachelor’s degree/University degree or equivalent experience.

Location

Irving, Texas, United States (Full‑time).

Salary Range

$125,760 – $188,640.

Benefits

Citi offers competitive employee benefits, including medical, dental & vision coverage; 401(k); life, accident, and disability insurance; and wellness programs. Citi also offers paid time off packages, including planned time off (vacation), unplanned time off (sick leave), and paid holidays.

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