Senior AI-Driven Threat Hunter — Lead & Mentor Teams

SimSpace; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental, vision benefits

401(k) with company match

Unlimited vacation

Equity stock options

Peloton Wellness Program

LinkedIn Learning membership

Referral rewards: $1,500–$3,500

Job summary

SimSpace seeks a Senior AI-Centric Threat Hunter to mentor global security teams and advance AI-driven threat hunting across our cyber range platform. You will lead research on agentic capabilities, integrate them into test environments, and consult clients on deployment strategies while staying ahead of AI cybersecurity trends.

The role emphasizes hands-on security operations, data analysis, and cross‑functional collaboration with global teams, with travel up to 25–30%.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated proficiency in AI/ML engineering, including practical application and experimentation with AI agents, LLM APIs.
• Deep understanding of AI agents, specializing in orchestration of decision loops, tool access frameworks, and memory systems for threat hunting.
• Architecting Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines to ground LLMs in internal threat intel, incident data, and policies while avoiding hallucinations.
• Advanced proficiency in Python and data science libraries, plus scripting with Pandas and Numpy.
• Familiarity with open-source AI ecosystems (Hugging Face) and local LLMs (Ollama, vLLM).
• 6+ years in Security Operations, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Offensive Security/Red Team, or CTI.
• Experience analyzing host, network, and application telemetry for kill-chain indicators.
• Experience with large datasets and log analysis tools: Splunk, Elastic, Python, Pandas, SQL, Hadoop, Hue.
• Ability to apply Cyber Threat Intelligence through enrichment, correlation, attribution.
• Experience with setup and troubleshooting of security stacks.
• Familiarity with offensive security strategies and assessment methodology.
• Experience explaining threat hunt objectives to mixed audiences and communicating risk clearly.
• Hands-on hunting for IOC in enterprise EDR/SIEM tools (Splunk, Elastic, CrowdStrike).
• Experience in digital forensics or incident response on major security incidents.
• Demonstrated self-starter attitude and helping others grow.

Responsibilities

• Lead internal initiative to research and integrate candidate agentic capabilities into test environments.
• Serve as a consultant to customers to identify, integrate and test agentic capabilities in their cybersecurity enterprise.
• Keep up with AI and cybersecurity standards and publications.
• Provide world-class mentorship of advanced threat hunting tactics for global clients.
• Establish parsing rules, dashboards, and tuning of enterprise security tools in our cyber range to exceed client goals.
• Collaborate with range operations to develop toolsets and scenarios within a cybersecurity range.
• Balance business priorities and drive consensus to deliver results across the org.
• Take initiative, lead projects, and mentor other team members.
• Navigate and operate across a geographically dispersed organization.
• Support assessment of customer security teams and events (travel up to 25-30%).

Skills

AI/ML engineering

AI agents orchestration

RAG systems design

Python

Pandas

Numpy

Open-source AI ecosystems

Hugging Face

Ollama

vLLM

Security Operations

Incident Response

Threat hunting

Splunk

Elastic

SQL

Hadoop

Hue

Tools

Python

Pandas

Numpy

Hugging Face

Ollama

vLLM

Splunk

Elastic

SQL

Hadoop

Hue

Job description

SimSpace seeks a Senior AI-Centric Threat Hunter to mentor global security teams and advance AI-driven threat hunting across our cyber range platform. You will lead research on agentic capabilities, integrate them into test environments, and consult clients on deployment strategies while staying ahead of AI cybersecurity trends.

The role emphasizes hands-on security operations, data analysis, and cross‑functional collaboration with global teams, with travel up to 25–30%.