# Director of Engineering, Threat Research at Horizon3.ai

- Company: Horizon3.ai
- What the company does: Horizon3 uses real-world attacks to safely show what attackers can actually do in your environment—so you can fix and prove what matters. Backed by NEA.
- Company website: https://horizon3.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: US, Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $272K to $321K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-11-06
- Apply by: 2026-12-21
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/horizon3ai/1437d4b1-69c6-411f-9083-407e9974e119?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/horizon3-ai-director-of-engineering-threat-research/

## About the role

As Director of Engineering, Threat Research, you’ll lead the engineering teams behind NodeZero Rapid Response and Threat Hunting products. Rapid Response turns emerging vulnerability and threat signals into fast, safe, customer-specific validation, helping customers understand what is exploitable in their environments and what to do next. Threat Hunting helps customers investigate whether the attack paths NodeZero discovered were already used: who got in, where they moved, and what they did. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Experience with production software engineering and at least one modern programming language such as Python, Go, TypeScript, or a comparable language
- Understanding of engineering practices such as CI/CD, automated testing, observability, incident response, and operational readiness
- Ability to evaluate technical designs and establish quality controls for security-sensitive, customer-facing systems
- Deep practical experience in at least one relevant discipline—such as vulnerability research, exploitability analysis, threat hunting, incident response, or detection engineering—and the
- Familiarity with SOC, threat-hunting, or incident-response workflows, security telemetry, attack techniques, and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK
- Direct leadership experience in vulnerability research, exploit development, threat intelligence, threat hunting, incident response, or security product engineering

Tags: Engineering

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