Lead Offensive AI Security Researcher

Zoom; Boise (ID); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 271,000; Full time

Job summary

Zoom is seeking an experienced security researcher to work at the intersection of offensive security and applied AI. You will surface critical risks across Zoom's products, applications, services, and infrastructure, forming hypotheses, validating exploitability, and tracing attack paths beyond routine testing.

With 5+ years in vulnerability research or related fields, you will use AI-enabled workflows to push beyond traditional methods, collaborating with Security Assurance teams while

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on vulnerability research, offensive security, application security, or penetration testing.
• Hands-on experience with frontier and open-weight models for exploit development.
• Experience assessing AI-driven research processes and reproducibility.
• Deep technical expertise in security domains (web, APIs, cloud, OS, or RE).
• Strong programming and debugging skills to build tooling and trace behavior.

Responsibilities

• Leverage AI to conduct vulnerability research across Zoom's products, applications, services, and infrastructure, with a focus on high-impact issues, subtle vulnerabilities, confirmed exploitability, and attack paths that cross component and trust boundaries.
• Use experience, threat analysis, architecture knowledge, source code, and observed system behavior to choose targets and guide investigations.
• Apply frontier and open-weight models, agents, and other AI capabilities across the research lifecycle: reconnaissance, code analysis, hypothesis generation, exploit development, and verification.
• Design and tune research harnesses that give models the right context, tools, execution environments, and feedback to investigate real targets.
• Develop custom tooling, including analysis utilities, fuzzers, agents, test harnesses, proofs of concept, and full exploits, when it helps answer the research question.
• Convert promising model output into defensible security evidence: reproduce findings, rule out false claims, establish preconditions, and distinguish a possible weakness from a demonstrated vulnerability with real impact.
• Improve the reliability and reach of AI-driven research by tackling false positives, false negatives, context limits, nondeterminism, and reproducibility.
• Work directly with Engineering and Product Security to communicate findings, support remediation, surface related risks, and verify fixes.
• Share tools, techniques, and lessons learned so Security Assurance and the broader Security org can enhance their processes through the use of AI.

Skills

Vulnerability research

Offensive security

Threat analysis

AI/modeling

Exploit development

Tools

Fuzzers

Proof-of-concept tooling

Code analysis

Job description

Zoom is seeking an experienced security researcher to work at the intersection of offensive security and applied AI. You will surface critical risks across Zoom's products, applications, services, and infrastructure, forming hypotheses, validating exploitability, and tracing attack paths beyond routine testing.

With 5+ years in vulnerability research or related fields, you will use AI-enabled workflows to push beyond traditional methods, collaborating with Security Assurance teams while