Senior Human Threats Consultant: Social Engineering

Coalfire; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 146,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work model

Parental leave

Training reimbursement

Mental health support

Insurance options

Job summary

Coalfire, headquartered in Chicago, IL, seeks a Senior Consultant, Human Threats to join our DivisionHex Human Threats team. You will assess security posture and human-centered detection and response capabilities with emphasis on authorized physical security assessments, social engineering, and risk evaluations across client facilities.

You will plan engagements, develop scenarios, and deliver clear reports with practical remediation.

Qualifications

• 5-8 years client-facing consulting experience with 3-5 years experience in social engineering, red team, insider risk, physical security
• Demonstrated expertise of social engineering principles and techniques, phishing, vishing, smishing, and other communication-based attack methods
• Knowledge of threat actor tactics, physical security concepts, badge/access control weaknesses, and user-targeted attack paths
• Willingness and ability to travel to client sites up to 75%

Responsibilities

• Conduct human threat engagements, including social engineering, phishing, vishing, authorized physical security assessments, and human risk evaluations
• Plan, scope, and execute physical security assessments across facilities, offices, campuses, and other client locations
• Evaluate physical security controls, including perimeter protections, entry points, locks, badges, visitor management, and secure areas
• Develop assessment plans, scenarios, pretexts, and test plans for combined physical and social engineering engagements
• Coordinate onsite logistics and client communications while adhering to scope and authorization
• Document observations with notes, timestamps, photos, interviews, and secure handling of client data
• Analyze results, assign risk-based findings, and provide actionable remediation recommendations
• Prepare and review Human Threat reports to meet quality standards
• Deliver client briefings and debriefs highlighting gaps, impact, and actions
• Mentor junior consultants and contribute to methodology development
• Represent Coalfire at events and with clients as a subject matter expert

Skills

Social engineering

Phishing

Vishing

Smishing

Pretext development

Adversary emulation

Human risk assessments

Report writing

Client presentations

Job description

Coalfire, headquartered in Chicago, IL, seeks a Senior Consultant, Human Threats to join our DivisionHex Human Threats team. You will assess security posture and human-centered detection and response capabilities with emphasis on authorized physical security assessments, social engineering, and risk evaluations across client facilities.

You will plan engagements, develop scenarios, and deliver clear reports with practical remediation.