Director of Engineering, Threat Research

horizon3ai; United States; Remote; USD 272,000 - 321,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Flexible vacation policy

Parental leave

Job summary

horizon3ai is seeking an engineering leader to direct two cybersecurity product areas, driving rapid vulnerability validation, research, and cross‑regional collaboration. You will own strategy, delivery, and organizational health across teams in the US, Europe, and Asia, balancing people leadership with technical depth to unblock managers and senior contributors.

You will set goals, build a shared roadmap, hire and mentor managers and researchers, and establish routines to surface priorities,

Qualifications

• Engineering leadership across multiple teams.
• Ability to connect product and customer needs with security research.
• Experience building healthy, accountable teams through hiring and development.
• Ability to lead distributed teams across regions and support continuous coverage.

Responsibilities

• Set goals, ownership, and measurable outcomes for the engineering orgs supporting rapid response and threat hunting.
• Develop a shared engineering strategy and roadmap that connects customer needs, product priorities, security research, and long-term technical investment.
• Hire, coach, and develop engineering managers, technical leaders, researchers, and senior individual contributors; guide career growth and succession planning.
• Establish practical operating routines that make priorities, delivery, capacity, dependencies, quality, and risks visible.
• Lead vulnerability research workflows, including automation and AI-assisted analysis, while maintaining expert review and production safety.
• Build follow-the-sun research coverage with teams in Europe and Asia, supporting reliable continuous response.

Job description

Role overview

Direct engineering for two cybersecurity product areas: rapid, customer‑specific validation of emerging vulnerabilities and investigation of whether discovered attack paths have already been used. The role owns strategy, delivery, and organizational health across both teams, while building continuous vulnerability research coverage across distributed teams in the United States, Europe, and Asia. It combines people leadership with enough technical depth to guide decisions and unblock managers and senior contributors.

Responsibilities

• Set goals, ownership, and measurable outcomes for the engineering organizations supporting rapid response and threat hunting.
• Develop a shared engineering strategy and roadmap that connect customer needs, product priorities, security research, and long-term technical investment.
• Hire, coach, and develop engineering managers, technical leaders, researchers, and senior individual contributors; guide career growth and succession planning.
• Establish practical operating routines that make priorities, delivery, capacity, dependencies, quality, and risks visible.
• Lead vulnerability research workflows, including automation and AI‑assisted analysis, while maintaining expert review, verification, and production safety.
• Build follow‑the‑sun research coverage with teams in Europe and Asia, supporting reliable continuous response.

Requirements

• Engineering leadership capability across multiple teams, including setting direction and supporting managers and senior technical contributors.
• Ability to connect product and customer needs with security research and durable engineering plans.
• Experience building healthy, accountable teams through hiring, feedback, development, and clear operating practices.
• Technical judgment to raise quality, make strategic decisions, and help leaders resolve difficult engineering issues.
• Ability to lead distributed teams across regions and support continuous coverage.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote role based in the United States, leading teams across the US, Europe, and Asia.
• Annual base salary range listed as $272,425–$320,500, with equity in the form of stock options for full-time roles.
• Flexible vacation policy and parental leave are mentioned.