AI Security Red/Blue Team Operator — Top Secret

ECS; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 160,000 - 205,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS in Washington, DC seeks an AI-Focused Red Team/Blue Team Operator with Top Secret clearance to join our security team. You will lead offensive and defensive cyber operations with a focus on AI-enabled systems and threats.

The role supports advanced security assessments, adversary emulation, detection engineering, and threat hunting, leveraging AI to accelerate vulnerability discovery and defense improvements. A strong emphasis on collaboration and security maturity is required.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret clearance required; SCI eligibility preferred.
• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity with meaningful hands-on experience in both red team and blue team operations.
• Experience with offensive security testing, adversary emulation, or penetration testing.
• Defensive operations, vulnerability analysis and threat hunting.
• Prompt engineering to optimize AI-driven security tools, and familiarity with prompt injection/jailbreaking defensive mitigation strategies.
• Windows, Linux, Active Directory, cloud environments, and enterprise networks.
• Security tooling such as vulnerability assessment tools, and attack simulation frameworks.
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK, intrusion kill chain concepts, and adversary behaviors.
• Experience leveraging AI-enabled tools, assessing or securing AI/ML systems, large language model integrations, or AI-enabled applications.
• Experience performing vulnerability assessments using Nessus, Nmap, Tenable, Kali, Burp, Metasploit, Core Impact.
• Strong understanding of security principles related to identity, access management, segmentation, logging, incident response, and secure architecture.
• Ability to communicate highly technical issues clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• U.S. citizenship required due to clearance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Support advanced security assessments, adversary emulation, detection engineering, and threat hunting while leveraging AI to reduce time to detect or identify zero-day vulnerabilities.
• Building agentic workflows for triage, detection tuning, and report generation.
• Fine-tuning and evaluation of security-tuned language models.
• Secure use of AI coding assistants and code-review for AI-generated output.

Skills

Top Secret clearance

Red Team

Blue Team

AI Security

Threat Hunting

Adversary Emulation

Vulnerability Analysis

MITRE ATT&CK

Windows

Linux

Active Directory

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Nessus

Nmap

Tenable

Kali

Burp

Metasploit

Core Impact

Job description

Everforth ECS in Washington, DC seeks an AI-Focused Red Team/Blue Team Operator with Top Secret clearance to join our security team. You will lead offensive and defensive cyber operations with a focus on AI-enabled systems and threats.

The role supports advanced security assessments, adversary emulation, detection engineering, and threat hunting, leveraging AI to accelerate vulnerability discovery and defense improvements. A strong emphasis on collaboration and security maturity is required.