AI Vulnerability Research Engineer

watchTowr

AI Vulnerability Research Engineer at watchTowr combining offensive security with AI. Developing tools and systems for vulnerability discovery and threat management.

Posted 5/20/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Cyber Security

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Build production-quality tooling that accelerates offensive security workflows, integrated directly into the watchTowr Platform and our autonomous pipelines
Design, experiment with, and iterate on LLM-powered systems, agents, and automations for vulnerability discovery, exploit reproduction, and analysis
Develop and refine the orchestration layers that turn AI capability into reliable, repeatable offensive security outcomes
Rapidly prototype and validate ideas - turning promising experiments into practical tooling that ships
Investigate high-impact security problems and explore pathways toward identifying meaningful vulnerabilities, including novel/zero-day findings
Evaluate emerging models, tools, and AI techniques for where they create real offensive security value versus hype
Collaborate closely with watchTowr Labs researchers, feeding autonomously reproduced vulnerabilities into our Rapid Reaction and Active Defense capabilities
Work with a high degree of autonomy and help define what this capability becomes.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Background in cybersecurity, offensive security, security engineering, vulnerability research, or related areas
Strong interest in vulnerability discovery and offensive security concepts, with familiarity with the tooling ecosystem and common workflows
A genuine obsession with AI and excitement about what emerging models can enable in security contexts
Hands-on experience experimenting with LLMs and AI tooling in practical, applied ways - not just prompting, but building systems around models
A bias toward building, testing, and learning quickly over planning endlessly
Comfort operating without rigid structure or predefined playbooks
High-energy, curious mindset with a willingness to try things, fail fast, and iterate
Strong ownership and ability to operate autonomously

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation - we believe that hard work, skills and ambition should be fairly compensated.
Meaningful role in a company - You will be a key and early contributor to a fast-growing cybersecurity business that helps protect some of the world's largest enterprises.
The best tools and powerful kit - we enable you with the tools to effectively fulfil your role.
Endless opportunities – we are in a high-growth phase of our journey, and plan to promote from within as we scale.
Work with cyber security experts – we are solving cutting-edge industry-wide cyber security challenges with some of the world’s most advanced organisations.

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Hard Skills & Tools

offensive securityvulnerability discoveryexploit reproductionAI systemsLLM-powered systemsorchestration layerssecurity engineeringvulnerability researchAI toolingrapid prototyping

Soft Skills

high-energy mindsetcuriosityownershipautonomyiterative learningcollaborationadaptabilityproblem-solvingquick testingwillingness to experiment