Senior AI Red Team Engineer - Offensive Cyber Resilience

Moderna Therapeutics; United States; Hybrid; USD 146,000 - 234,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Well-being resources

Family planning

Paid time off

Investments

Location-specific perks

Job summary

Moderna Therapeutics seeks a senior security professional to design, execute, and evolve advanced adversarial simulations across corporate, lab, and manufacturing environments. You will build and run end-to-end offensive campaigns, from recon to post-exploitation, collaborating with Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, and Detection Engineering to create durable defenses.

You will lead offensive toolchains, measure security detections, and drive continuous red team maturity, including

Qualifications

• 4+ years in cybersecurity with deep experience in red teaming, offensive security, or adversary simulation.
• Proven ability to conduct end-to-end attack chains, including initial access, lateral movement, privilege escalation, and data exfiltration.
• Expertise in network penetration testing, Active Directory exploitation, cloud attacks (Azure, AWS, O365), endpoint evasion, and AI systems.
• Experience targeting OT or lab-connected systems is a plus.
• Experience with modern AI based attacks and how to leverage them in a longer attack path.
• Strong knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, C2 frameworks, and offensive tooling.
• Familiarity with purple team methodologies and integrating offensive results into defensive playbooks and detections.
• OPSEC discipline and experience running stealth operations under blue team monitoring.
• Solid scripting and automation skills in at least one major language (Python, PowerShell, Bash, or Go).

Responsibilities

• Plan, execute, and document full-spectrum red team operations targeting digital, physical, and hybrid environments.
• Develop and maintain offensive toolchains and infrastructure for covert operations (C2 frameworks, payload obfuscation, cloud-based staging, and beacon management).
• Conduct external-to-internal attack simulations.
• Collaborate with detection and incident response teams to measure time-to-detect, time-to-contain, and overall detection efficacy.
• Build and maintain custom scripts and exploits using Python, PowerShell, and other languages to simulate real adversary TTPs.
• Perform adversary emulation based on threat intel tied to biotech, pharma, and critical manufacturing sectors.
• Lead post‑operation technical debriefs with IR and Threat Intel to derive new detection opportunities and security controls.
• Contribute to the development of internal red team maturity, progressing toward a continuous red team model.

Skills

Red Teaming

Offensive Security

Adversary Simulation

Attack Chains

Penetration Testing

Active Directory Exploitation

Cloud Attacks

Endpoint Evasion

AI Systems

MITRE ATT&CK

C2 Frameworks

Purple Team

OPSEC

Scripting

Tools

C2 frameworks

Offensive tooling

Job description

Moderna Therapeutics seeks a senior security professional to design, execute, and evolve advanced adversarial simulations across corporate, lab, and manufacturing environments. You will build and run end-to-end offensive campaigns, from recon to post-exploitation, collaborating with Incident Response, Threat Intelligence, and Detection Engineering to create durable defenses.

You will lead offensive toolchains, measure security detections, and drive continuous red team maturity, including