Remote Research Scientist, AI & Cybersecurity Systems

Horizon3.ai; United States; Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inclusive culture

Growth opportunities

Innovative culture

Hybrid & Remote work

Competitive compensation + benefits

Job summary

Horizon3.ai is hiring a Research Staff Member to work on research problems at the intersection of super intelligence, systems security, and agentic security. You will explore AI agents for security, autonomous pentesting, attack-path reasoning, cyber deception, AI safety, and evaluation of AI systems.

This role blends research with practical engineering to prototype methods and run experiments in real and simulated environments.

Qualifications

• Strong CS foundations and ability to reason about algorithms, systems, software, and data.
• Depth in systems security, super intelligence/ML, or related area, with interest across both AI and security.
• Strong programming ability; Python is useful; language choice is secondary to fundamentals.
• Ability to design careful experiments, analyze results, and distinguish evidence from intuition.

Responsibilities

• Conduct research on problems at the intersection of AI, cybersecurity, and computer systems.
• Formulate research questions from real technical challenges faced by Horizon3 and customers.
• Design and run experiments to test research hypotheses in controlled environments.
• Build research prototypes and implement methods with quality for meaningful evaluation.
• Study and evaluate modern AI techniques including LLMs, agentic systems, and reasoning methods.
• Analyze security data, attack paths, telemetry, and configurations.
• Read and critically evaluate literature and determine applicability to Horizon3's problems.
• Collaborate with researchers, engineers, product teams to evaluate solutions.
• Document methods, experiments, results, and limitations clearly.

Skills

CS fundamentals

Systems security depth

AI/ML interest

Programming skills

Python

Experiment design

Curiosity

Research & engineering

Technical communication

Problem solving

Education

BSc in Computer Science or related field

Job description

Horizon3.ai is hiring a Research Staff Member to work on research problems at the intersection of super intelligence, systems security, and agentic security. You will explore AI agents for security, autonomous pentesting, attack-path reasoning, cyber deception, AI safety, and evaluation of AI systems.

This role blends research with practical engineering to prototype methods and run experiments in real and simulated environments.