Head of Threat Research Engineering (Remote, Equity)

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

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,