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Offensive Security Engineer

Artemis · New York City · On-site

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About Artemis

Traditional SIEMs weren’t built for today’s world. Artemis closes that gap with an AI-native Protection Platform designed to dramatically reduce MTTD and MTTR for modern threats. Backed by Theory Ventures.

About the role

Build scalable adversary emulation – Develop reusable scenarios and automation that reproduce attacker behaviors and multi-stage attack chains across cloud, identity, endpoint, SaaS, AI, and data environments. Prioritize work using threat intelligence, customer risk, and detection coverage gaps. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years of hands-on cybersecurity experience, with substantial offensive security, red teaming, adversary emulation, or security research work, equivalent demonstrated expertise is welcome
  • Strong Python skills and a track record building reusable security tools with APIs, SDKs, Git, code review, and automated testing
  • Deep practical expertise in at least one cloud or identity ecosystem, with an understanding of permissions, service identities, sessions, and data access
  • Practical web/API security knowledge and experience chaining weaknesses across authorization boundaries into meaningful attack paths
  • Experience reproducing attacks in controlled environments and connecting the resulting behavior to audit logs, detection logic, and investigation evidence
  • Experience assessing AI applications or agent workflows, or demonstrated offensive research into these systems
More about this role

Artemis is building the future of AI-driven cybersecurity, helping companies defend themselves effectively in an era where AI is fighting AI on the cyber battlefield.

Our platform brings a new approach to the $100B security operations market, building a live model of each customer's environment and using AI agents to detect, investigate, hunt, and respond to threats at machine speed. Just one year after our founding, Artemis is one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity companies of all time, with customers including multiple Fortune 500 companies, Global 2000 enterprises, and AI innovators like Cursor.

We have raised $70M from Felicis, First Round Capital, Theory Ventures, Two Sigma Ventures, Lockstep VC and Brightmind. We are also backed by some of the most prominent operators in cybersecurity, including the CEO of Crowdstrike, the former CEO and CTO of Splunk, and the founders of Abnormal AI and Demisto.

Artemis's founders have built and scaled security products used by tens of thousands of customers. Shachar Hirshberg (CEO) led Amazon GuardDuty, the world's largest cloud detection product, was an early employee at Demisto, the company that invented the SOAR category, was an...

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