Senior AI-Powered Offensive Security Engineer

Zoom; Madison (WI); Hybrid; USD 124,000 - 271,000; Full time

Job summary

Zoom is seeking an experienced security researcher to join the Offensive Security team, focusing on AI-enhanced vulnerability research across Zoom’s products, applications, services, and infrastructure.

You will analyze complex systems, design AI-assisted investigation strategies, and develop proof-of-concept exploits while collaborating with Engineering and Product Security to remediate risks.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on vulnerability research, offensive security, application security, or penetration testing.
• Hands-on experience running offensive workflows with frontier and open-weight models.
• Experience assessing AI-driven research processes, reproducibility, and risk.
• Deep technical expertise in web apps/APIs, cloud or service infrastructure, OS, or reverse engineering.
• Strong programming and debugging skills; ability to read unfamiliar code and build tooling.
• Ability to communicate findings clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Leverage AI to conduct vulnerability research across Zoom's products, applications, services, and infrastructure.
• Use experience, threat analysis, architecture knowledge, source code, and observed system behavior to guide investigations.
• Apply frontier and open-weight models, agents, and other AI capabilities across the research lifecycle.
• Design and tune research harnesses to give models the right context, tools, environments, and feedback.
• Develop custom tooling, including analysis utilities, fuzzers, agents, test harnesses, proofs of concept, and full exploits.
• Convert promising model output into defensible security evidence: reproduce findings and establish preconditions.
• Improve reliability and reproducibility of AI-driven research; reduce false positives/negatives.
• Work with Engineering and Product Security to communicate findings and support remediation.
• Share tools and lessons learned with Security Assurance and broader org.

Skills

Vulnerability research

Offensive security

Programming

Debugging

Communication

Job description

Zoom is seeking an experienced security researcher to join the Offensive Security team, focusing on AI-enhanced vulnerability research across Zoom’s products, applications, services, and infrastructure.

You will analyze complex systems, design AI-assisted investigation strategies, and develop proof-of-concept exploits while collaborating with Engineering and Product Security to remediate risks.