[Hiring] Senior Threat Hunter @SimSpace Corporation

Role Description

We are looking for a highly motivated Cybersecurity Professional to support mentorship and assessment of global security teams in basic to advanced cybersecurity skill areas. The ideal candidate has a strong technical background, is enthusiastic, is good at problem solving, has a strong desire to learn, prefers to be hands-on technically, and constantly strives for excellence.

The Senior AI-Centric Threat Hunter will be part of a team developing methodologies of incorporating AI agents into cybersecurity workflows, designing experiments to help develop/test AI agents and models, delivering instructional content to customers, and facilitating a variety of Blue Team exercises for SimSpace and our customers. When facilitating exercises, you will be responsible for:

• Teaching security concepts.
• Demonstrating practical/hands-on use of open source and commercial security tools.
• Referencing both well established and cutting edge techniques that Cybersecurity Incident Response Teams might use to effectively defend their networks from advanced cyber threats.

What will you be doing as a Senior AI-Centric Threat Hunter at SimSpace?

• Lead an internal initiative to research and integrate candidate agentic capabilities into test environments.
• Serve as a consultant to customers looking to integrate agentic capabilities into their cybersecurity enterprise.
• Keep up with industry evolution around AI and cybersecurity operations.
• Bring world class mentorship of advanced threat hunting tactics and strategy for our global clients and international organizations.
• Utilize years of Blue Teaming experience to establish parsing rules, dashboards, and tuning of numerous enterprise security tools.
• Work with our range operations team to develop toolsets and scenarios within a cybersecurity range.
• Utilize foresight and awareness of overall business priorities when dealing with competing requirements.
• Takes initiative in day-to-day tasks, leads projects, and mentors other team members.
• Navigate and work effectively across a complex, geographically dispersed organization.
• Support assessment of customer security teams and customer events (travel estimated up to 25-30%).

Qualifications

• Demonstrated proficiency in AI/ML engineering, including practical application and experimentation with AI agents, LLM APIs.
• Possess a deep understanding of AI agents, specializing in the orchestration of agent decision loops, tool access frameworks, and memory systems optimized for threat hunting and proactive security operations.
• Hands-on experience designing and deploying Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines.
• Advanced proficiency in Python and standard data science/AI libraries, alongside strong scripting skills for data manipulation (Pandas, Numpy).
• Familiarity with open-source AI ecosystems (Hugging Face) and frameworks for running local, privacy-safe LLMs (Ollama, vLLM).
• 6+ years of experience in a technical role in Security Operations, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Offensive Security/Red Team, or Cyber Threat Intelligence.
• Experience analyzing host, network, and application telemetry for indicators of attack across the stages of the cyber kill chain.
• Direct experience working with very large datasets and log analysis tools including but not limited to: Splunk, Elastic, Python, Pandas, SQL, Hadoop, Hue.
• Ability to apply Cyber Threat Intelligence through enrichment, correlation, and attribution.
• Experience with setup and/or troubleshooting of security stacks.
• Familiarity with offensive security strategies and assessment methodology.
• Experience explaining threat hunt objectives to mixed technical and non-technical audiences.
• Hands-on technical experience and ability to demonstrate hunting for indicators of compromise in numerous enterprise scale EDR and SIEM tools.
• Previous experience performing digital forensics or incident response on major security incidents.
• Demonstrated self-starter with a constant desire to help others improve and build the team.

Benefits

• Base salary range: $120,000 - $150,000 with the opportunity for commission tied to company performance and individual contributions.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, plus savings plans—coverage starts on day one!
• Access to company-paid counseling, coaching, and resources for you and your family through Spring Health.
• 401(k)-retirement savings plan featuring a company match.
• Unlimited vacation and dedicated health & wellness days.
• Paid leave plans to support you and your loved ones during life’s most important moments.
• Equity stock options at hire, with annual performance-based grants.
• Earn $1,500–$3,500 for every qualified hire through our employee referral program.
• Full- and partial-subsidized membership plans and equipment discounts to help you reach your personalized fitness goals.
• Access a LinkedIn Learning membership to prioritize your personal and professional development.
• Monthly reimbursements for meaningful connections with teammates through our SocialSpace Community.
• Legal plan coverage, pet insurance, wellness reimbursements, and more.

Company Description

SimSpace serves as an AI Proving Ground where organizations can confidently train, test, and outmaneuver adversaries in any environment. Trusted by allied governments, militaries, enterprises, and research institutions worldwide, SimSpace enables adaptive, AI-ready defenses that stay ahead of evolving threats.

Founded in 2015 by experts from U.S. Cyber Command and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the platform unifies training, testing, and validation in a realistic, live-fire simulation—helping teams evaluate security investments, optimize performance, and compress cyber readiness cycles from months to days.