Team8 Stealth Cyber Startup - Founding Vulnerability Researcher

We are a fast-growing stealth cyber startup, backed by Team8, on a mission to solve one of the most critical challenges in the modern cyber landscape. We are looking for a brilliant Founding Vulnerability Researcher to join our core R&D team and help shape the technical heart of our product from the ground up.Role descriptionWe are looking for a strong offensive security researcher to join our core team, become a true partner in building the product end-to-end, and take a key role in shaping our research methodology, technical direction, and product capabilities.This is a hands-on role in a small team, sitting at the intersection of world-class offensive research and core agentic AI research — with a lot of responsibility, autonomy, and influence over the technical and business direction.What you will doDiscover novel vulnerabilities, attack primitives, and exploitation techniques across various surfaces.Build reliable, weaponizable proof-of-concepts that hold up in real production environments.Translate offensive techniques and original research into real product capabilities.Develop methodologies that mirror how top attackers actually operate end-to-end.Stress-test the product against hardened targets and push the ceiling of what it can do.Represent the company in the research community through talks, papers, and disclosures.