Senior Cyber Threat Emulation Engineer

Toyota North America; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care

Tuition reimbursement

Relocation assistance

Paid holidays

Vehicle program

Job summary

Toyota North America is seeking a Cyber Threat Emulation Senior Operator to build next‑gen threat emulation capabilities across global enterprise. This hands‑on offensive security role focuses on executing sophisticated simulations, developing AI‑assisted tooling, and expanding attack workflows beyond traditional red teams.

You will work with identity, endpoint, cloud, and AI‑enabled environments, coordinating with defenders to measurably improve controls while mentoring peers and advancing

Qualifications

• Experience in red teaming or offensive security in an enterprise.
• Ability to conduct end-to-end security engagements.
• Knowledge of attack techniques across identity, endpoints, networks, cloud, apps, AI.
• Hands-on with tooling, automation, or agentic workflows.
• Clear communication of complex findings to diverse audiences.
• Integrity and governance awareness for offensive security.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Execute end-to-end red team and control test engagements that reproduce realistic adversary behaviors across identity, endpoint, network, application, cloud, container, and AI‑enabled environments.
• Develop custom offensive security tooling and reusable attack capabilities rather than relying exclusively on commercial testing platforms.
• Build AI‑assisted and agentic workflows for reconnaissance, attack-path discovery, campaign planning, vulnerability analysis, payload development, control validation and post‑exploitation emulation.
• Leverage and tune multi‑agent systems capable of adapting attack‑paths, interpreting results, and coordinating multi‑stage adversary simulations at speed and scale.
• Integrate large language models with internal telemetry and threat intelligence to prioritize and drive offensive security workflows.
• Test AI‑enabled applications and agentic systems, including model interfaces, retrieval pipelines, tool integrations, authorization boundaries, data flows, and indirect prompt‑injection paths.
• Work directly with SOC analysts, detection engineers, incident responders, and threat intelligence analysts to break, tune, retest, and improve security controls through purple team exercises.
• Stay current on global cyber trends and attack techniques. Propose new research directions by applying relevant insights to the Toyota environment.
• Mentor other offensive security practitioners while remaining actively involved in research, tooling development, and engagement execution.

Skills

Red Teaming

Adversary Simulation

Penetration Testing

Offensive Security

Security Tooling

Automation

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Job description

Toyota North America is seeking a Cyber Threat Emulation Senior Operator to build next‑gen threat emulation capabilities across global enterprise. This hands‑on offensive security role focuses on executing sophisticated simulations, developing AI‑assisted tooling, and expanding attack workflows beyond traditional red teams.

You will work with identity, endpoint, cloud, and AI‑enabled environments, coordinating with defenders to measurably improve controls while mentoring peers and advancing