Research Staff, Adversarial Intelligence

horizon3ai; United States; Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Health, dental & vision

Flexible vacation

Parental leave

Job summary

Horizon3ai in the United States seeks researchers to explore how AI, cybersecurity, and computer systems intersect to address real security challenges. The role blends technical investigation with practical implementation: researchers develop questions from real environments, test ideas through experiments, and build prototypes informing security products.

Hiring level may be entry or developing, with mentorship for less experienced researchers.

Qualifications

• Strong computer science foundations in algorithms, software, systems, and data.
• Meaningful technical depth in AI or systems security, plus motivation to build expertise in the other.
• Ability to investigate difficult technical questions, implement research ideas, and evaluate results systematically.
• Clear technical writing and communication skills for explaining methods, findings, and limitations.
• Interest in collaborative research that connects technical exploration to practical security work.

Responsibilities

• Formulate research questions from practical security problems and investigate relevant technical approaches.
• Design and run experiments in controlled environments that reflect real-world systems.
• Build prototypes suitable for meaningful evaluation and study AI methods such as language models, agent systems, reasoning approaches, and learning algorithms where relevant.
• Analyze security environments, attack paths, telemetry, graphs, and configurations.
• Review technical and academic literature, then assess how findings apply to current research questions.
• Collaborate with research, security, engineering, and product teams; document methods, results, and limitations and present findings through reports, prototypes, or publications.

Skills

CS fundamentals

AI depth

Systems security depth

Technical writing

Collaborative research

Job description

Role overview

Research how artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and computer systems can work together to identify and address real security challenges. The role blends technical investigation with practical implementation: researchers develop questions from real environments, test ideas through experiments, and build prototypes that can inform security products and methods. Hiring level may be entry or developing, with mentorship for less experienced researchers.

Responsibilities

• Formulate research questions from practical security problems and investigate relevant technical approaches.
• Design and run experiments in controlled environments that reflect real-world systems.
• Build prototypes suitable for meaningful evaluation and study AI methods such as language models, agent systems, reasoning approaches, and learning algorithms where relevant.
• Analyze security environments, attack paths, telemetry, graphs, and configurations.
• Review technical and academic literature, then assess how findings apply to current research questions.
• Collaborate with research, security, engineering, and product teams; document methods, results, and limitations and present findings through reports, prototypes, or publications.

Requirements

• Strong computer science foundations, including reasoning about algorithms, software, systems, and data.
• Meaningful technical depth in at least one of AI or systems security, plus motivation to build expertise in the other.
• Ability to investigate difficult technical questions, implement research ideas, and evaluate results systematically.
• Clear technical writing and communication skills for explaining methods, findings, and limitations.
• Interest in collaborative research that connects technical exploration to practical security work.

Benefits and work setup

• Remote or hybrid arrangements may be available depending on location and role.
• Full-time roles include stock options; listed benefits include health, dental and vision coverage, flexible vacation, and parental leave.