Senior AI-Driven Offensive Security Engineer (Remote)

Zoom; Montpelier (VT); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 271,000; Full time

Job summary

Zoom is seeking an experienced Senior Offensive Security researcher to surface critical risks across its products, applications, services, and infrastructure. You will blend hands-on vulnerability research with AI-driven methods and work with Security Assurance teams to validate exploitability and impact.

The role emphasizes autonomous, hypothesis-driven research, with collaboration across Engineering and Product Security to communicate findings and drive remediation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on vulnerability research or offensive security work.
• Experience running offensive workflows with frontier and open-weight models.
• Experience assessing AI-driven research processes and reproducibility gaps.
• Deep technical expertise in security domains (web apps/APIs, cloud, OS, or reverse engineering).
• Strong programming and debugging skills; ability to read unfamiliar code and build tooling.
• Clear communication of findings to technical and nontechnical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Leverage AI to conduct vulnerability research across Zoom's products, applications, services, and infrastructure, focusing on high-impact issues.
• Use targets, threat analysis, and architecture knowledge to guide investigations.
• Apply frontier/open-weight models across the research lifecycle: reconnaissance, code analysis, hypothesis generation, exploit development, verification.
• Design and tune research harnesses to give models the right context, tools, and feedback.
• Develop custom tooling and proof-of-concept exploits as needed to answer research questions.
• Convert model output into defensible security evidence by reproducing findings and ruling out false claims.
• Improve AI-driven research reliability by addressing false positives/negatives, nondeterminism, and reproducibility.
• Collaborate with Engineering/ Product Security to communicate findings and verify fixes.
• Share tools and lessons learned to strengthen Security Assurance processes.

Job description

Zoom is seeking an experienced Senior Offensive Security researcher to surface critical risks across its products, applications, services, and infrastructure. You will blend hands-on vulnerability research with AI-driven methods and work with Security Assurance teams to validate exploitability and impact.

The role emphasizes autonomous, hypothesis-driven research, with collaboration across Engineering and Product Security to communicate findings and drive remediation.