Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Crossing Hurdles is seeking a Red Team Lead to support offensive cybersecurity evaluation and benchmarking. The role focuses on developing cyber-capability taxonomies, designing realistic attack evaluations, creating safe proxy tasks, developing scoring rubrics, reviewing red team benchmarks, and documenting methodologies for technical and non-technical audiences.
Responsibilities
- Develop comprehensive taxonomies for cyber-capability tasks and attack stages relevant to modern threat landscapes
- Design and validate evaluation frameworks for offensive security, focusing on real-world scenarios involving exploit chains, malware, cloud/appsec, and social engineering
- Create safe and effective proxy tasks to simulate advanced attack vectors while maintaining strict boundaries and ethical controls
- Formulate robust scoring rubrics to assess attack sophistication, coverage, and impact across diverse domains
- Review, critique, and enhance benchmarks for red team operations to ensure alignment with evolving security risks and best practices
- Produce clear, well-documented methodologies and technical write-ups, communicating complex security concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences
Skills
- Have strong relevant experience in offensive cybersecurity, red teaming, exploit development, or vulnerability research
- Track record as a principal security engineer, exploit developer, cloud red-team lead, malware reverse-engineer, or security researcher specializing in attack chains or social engineering
- Deep expertise in cyber attack methodologies, exploit chains, and cloud/application security assessments
- Strong background in malware analysis, reverse engineering, and/or social engineering tactics and defenses
- Demonstrated ability to produce clear, actionable written and verbal communication for a variety of audiences
- Advanced degree, relevant professional security certifications, or equivalent operational experience highly valued
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