Director, Engineering, Proactive Offense

📋 Description

• • Lead and scale Horizon3.ai’s Offensive Engineering organization, overseeing teams responsible for exploit development, offensive content, and attack automation within the NodeZero platform. Set clear technical and product direction for how NodeZero identifies, exploits, and validates vulnerabilities across large, complex environments.
• • Partner closely with Product, Precision Defense, and Platform teams to define and deliver offensive capabilities that directly influence the roadmap and enhance customer outcomes. Drive execution from proof-of-concept through production-transforming cutting-edge attack research into scalable, productized features.
• • Stay hands-on enough to guide architectural decisions and evaluate complex exploit and automation approaches. Mentor technical leads in building resilient, modular systems that power NodeZero’s offensive testing engine.
• • Build, mentor, and scale diverse teams of software engineers, exploit developers, and offensive researchers. Foster a culture of collaboration, creativity, and engineering excellence that bridges traditional offensive and product software development.
• • Collaborate across engineering, product, and GTM teams to align offensive innovation with business priorities, and ensure delivery of measurable, impactful capabilities for customers.
• • Horizon3.ai is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company dedicated to enabling organizations to proactively find, fix and verify exploitable attack vectors before criminals exploit them. The company’s flagship product, NodeZeroTM, delivers production-safe autonomous pentests and scales across internal, external, cloud, and hybrid cloud environments, serving organizations from small educational institutions to government agencies and Global 100 enterprises.
• • As a remote-first company, Horizon3.ai requires a minimum 25Mbps consumer grade broadband connection and fosters a culture of respect, collaboration, ownership, and results, composed of former U.S. Special Operations cyber operators, startup engineers, and frustrated cybersecurity practitioners committed to solving systemic security challenges.