Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Crossing Hurdles is a company seeking an Application Security Engineer to join their team. The role involves conducting advanced offensive security research, discovering vulnerabilities, and partnering with engineering teams to enhance security practices.
Responsibilities
- Conduct advanced offensive security research across cloud infrastructure and AI platforms
- Design and execute adversary simulations targeting identity systems and cloud control planes
- Discover and exploit vulnerabilities in applications, APIs, and CI/CD pipelines
- Research emerging attack vectors against LLMs and AI agents
- Reverse engineer services to uncover architectural weaknesses and novel exploitation techniques
- Simulate insider and advanced persistent threat scenarios to evaluate defense techniques
- Build custom offensive tooling and proof-of-concept exploits
- Partner with engineering teams to validate fixes and improve security practices
- Publish internal research and document attack methodologies
Skills
- Proven experience in offensive security, vulnerability research, or exploit development
- Deep understanding of cloud security across AWS and GCP
- Strong background in application security, code auditing, and reverse engineering
- Experience identifying weaknesses in software supply chains and CI/CD systems
- Proficiency in Python, Go, Rust, C/C++, or similar languages
- Strong understanding of operating system internals and modern security architectures
- Ability to investigate ambiguous problems and develop novel attack techniques
- Excellent written communication skills for explaining complex vulnerabilities
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