Applied AI Engineer, Autonomous Defense

Get to Know Us

Horizon3 is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company dedicated to the mission of enabling organizations to proactively find and fix and verify exploitable attack vectors before criminals exploit them. Our flagship product, the NodeZeroTM platform, delivers production-safe autonomous pentests and other key assessment operations that scale across the largest internal, external, cloud, and hybrid cloud environments. NodeZero has been adopted by organizations of all sizes, from small educational institutions to government agencies and Global 100 enterprises. It is used by ITOps/SecOps teams, consulting pentesters, and MSSPs and MSPs. 

We are a fusion of former U.S. Special Operations cyber operators, startup engineers, and formerly frustrated cybersecurity practitioners. We're committed to helping solve our common security problems: ineffective security tools, false positives resulting in alert fatigue, blind spots, "checkbox” security culture, cybersecurity skills shortage, and the long lead time and expense of hiring outside consultants. Collectively, we are a team of learn it alls, committed to a culture of respect, collaboration, ownership, and results.

 

What You'll Do

We're looking for an AI Researcher to build the agents that turn our offensive knowledge into defensive action.

You'll build agents that reason from a proven attack path to the specific control changes that break it - EDR policy, firewall and segmentation rules, conditional access, detection content, cloud IAM, GPO - apply or stage those changes in the customer's environment, and then prove the fix by re-running the attack.

That last part is why this is tractable. Most defensive AI has no ground truth and gets graded on whether its advice sounds reasonable. Ours gets graded on whether the attack still works. You will have a real outcome signal on a short loop, and hundreds of thousands of prior tests to learn from. It is also why this is hard. These agents run inside...