Security Research Advocate & Public Speaker

Nightfall AI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Nightfall AI is seeking an experienced security engineer to lead investigations and serve as a public voice for security operations and data security. You will test models, explain findings on camera and in writing, and build open-source tools used by SOC teams.

You will also speak at conferences, run hands-on workshops, and help grow our security community by hosting podcasts and creating practical demos for customers and partners.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in security engineering, detection engineering, incident response, insider risk/DLP, security research or sales engineering.
• Established public voice in security: talks, a podcast, research write-ups, open-source projects or a following practitioners trust.
• You can code, work with APIs and debug across unfamiliar systems.
• You understand how enterprise data moves across SaaS, endpoints and AI tools, and how security controls like DLP, CASB, SIEM and EDR work.
• You can explain a technical finding clearly and defend it under questioning.
• You enjoy talking with security practitioners and engineers, on camera and in person.
• You follow through on the software and content you publish.

Responsibilities

• Run "The Model Did What?" investigations. Test new models, agents and AI tools against realistic enterprise workflows. Find concrete data exposures, build working reproductions, and show where security controls hold or fail.
• Explain it on camera and in writing. Open your laptop and walk through what happened. Turn findings into technical videos, blog posts and demos that SOC and data security teams want to watch and share, working with our content team.
• Build open-source tools. Ship detections, scanners, labs and utilities that practitioners actually use. Document them, respond to issues, and maintain them after launch.
• Speak and teach. Give talks at security and engineering conferences (BSides, Black Hat, DEF CON villages). Run hands-on workshops where participants reproduce the problem and test a defense themselves.
• Build the community. Host or join podcasts, livestreams and practitioner communities. Bring what you hear from security teams back to product and marketing.
• Equip our sales engineers. Create realistic, resettable demo environments with synthetic data, plus the scenarios and documentation SEs need to run them on their own.

Skills

Security engineering

Public speaker

Coding & APIs

Data flow security

Communication skills

Follow-through

Job description

Nightfall AI is seeking an experienced security engineer to lead investigations and serve as a public voice for security operations and data security. You will test models, explain findings on camera and in writing, and build open-source tools used by SOC teams.

You will also speak at conferences, run hands-on workshops, and help grow our security community by hosting podcasts and creating practical demos for customers and partners.