Defensive AI Threat Engineer (Hybrid)

Archer; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work schedule

Health and wellness benefits

Job summary

Archer, collaborating with Vanguard, seeks a senior cybersecurity leader to build and run a first-of-its-kind defensive program against autonomous systems and AI-driven threats. You will mentor a team across reverse engineering, AI analysis, and defense deployment.

Responsibilities include testing controls, designing deception infrastructure, and coordinating with red teams, cloud security, and IAM to embed defensive requirements early in AI adoption. Hybrid role.

Qualifications

• Minimum of five years related work experience with three in red teaming/adversary emulation/penetration testing.
• Undergraduate degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a defensive program against autonomous systems and adversarial AI with roadmap and operating model.
• Mentor analysts and engineers across reverse engineering and AI-assisted analysis.
• Identify and validate controls against AI-driven attacks and measure performance.
• Design and run deception/canary infrastructure and maintain assets to disrupt adversaries.
• Operate a dedicated lab to simulate autonomous attack scenarios and stress test controls.
• Lead AI-enabled breach investigations and timeline development across intrusions.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to embed defensive requirements early in AI adoption.

Skills

Red teaming / adversary emulation

Malware reverse engineering

Python automation

Threat intelligence

Incident response

AI/LLM security architectures

Detection engineering

Deception and canary design

Static/dynamic analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent in related field

Tools

Python

Automation tooling

Lab and forensic tooling

Job description

Archer, collaborating with Vanguard, seeks a senior cybersecurity leader to build and run a first-of-its-kind defensive program against autonomous systems and AI-driven threats. You will mentor a team across reverse engineering, AI analysis, and defense deployment.

Responsibilities include testing controls, designing deception infrastructure, and coordinating with red teams, cloud security, and IAM to embed defensive requirements early in AI adoption. Hybrid role.