Lead AI-Driven Offensive Cyber Operations

Nightwing; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Nightwing seeks a strong technical leader to bridge offensive cyber operations and AI/ML capabilities. You will guide LLM and neural network infrastructure across on‑prem, cloud, and token-based API subscriptions for an organization of 300+ engineers.

You’ll drive integration of state‑of‑the‑art open-weight models and commercial LLM offerings into OCO tools and lead AI‑enhanced vulnerability discovery frameworks with AFL++, Honggfuzz, and related techniques.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field; advanced degree preferred or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years working with LLMs, neural networks, and modern ML frameworks with deployment experience.
• 7+ years in vulnerability research, exploit development, or offensive cyber operations with proven capability delivery.
• Expert-level knowledge of genetic search algorithms, AFL++, and coverage-guided fuzzing.
• Deep understanding of ARM64/x86 assembly, modern exploit mitigations, OS internals, and memory management.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team to design and implement LLM and neural network infrastructure including on-premises deployments, cloud-hosted environments, and token-based API subscriptions for a large organization.
• Assess and integrate state-of-the-art open-weight models and commercial LLM offerings into OCO tools, actively defeating vendor guardrails.
• Establish processes for rapidly prototyping and evaluating emerging AI capabilities and translating research into new products for a 300+ engineer workforce.
• Lead development of AI-enhanced fuzzing and vulnerability discovery frameworks using AFL++, Honggfuzz and coverage-guided analysis.

Skills

LLMs

Vuln research

Assembly (ARM64/x86)

Exploit mitigations bypass

OS internals

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/CE

Tools

IDA Pro

Ghidra

Binary Ninja

GDB

LLDB

WinDbg

Job description

Nightwing seeks a strong technical leader to bridge offensive cyber operations and AI/ML capabilities. You will guide LLM and neural network infrastructure across on‑prem, cloud, and token-based API subscriptions for an organization of 300+ engineers.

You’ll drive integration of state‑of‑the‑art open-weight models and commercial LLM offerings into OCO tools and lead AI‑enhanced vulnerability discovery frameworks with AFL++, Honggfuzz, and related techniques.