In your first 6–12 months

• Write & execute a 100-day plan with input from the Research & Innovation team and the CTO.
• Work together towards an Agentic SOC prototype and/or AI-driven CVE hunting capability that demonstrates a measurable improvement in analyst efficiency or investigation quality.
• Complete a security assessment of at least one production AI system and help implement the resulting controls. Establish a working definition of "AI security review" at Eye Security.
• Publish research or tooling when it creates meaningful value for customers or the wider security community.

What We're Looking For

• Strong hands-on cybersecurity experience. You have worked directly in one or more areas such as SOC operations, incident response, threat detection, vulnerability research, offensive security or security engineering.
• Staff-level technical judgment. You can independently identify valuable research questions, decide what is worth pursuing, communicate your reasoning and influence engineers and security specialists without formal authority. Comfort in building things yourself. You can go from a research question to a working prototype largely independently.
• Demonstrable hands-on interest in AI. You have built or experimented with LLMs, agents, RAG or related systems through professional work, independent research, open-source contributions or substantial personal projects.
• Working proficiency in English. Dutch or German is a plus, not a requirement.

Bonus points

• Prior offensive security experience (pentesting, red teaming, vulnerability research) that transfers to the AI/LLM domain. Background in SOC operations, MDR, or incident response.
• Contributions to the AI security community: CTF write-ups, published jailbreaks or mitigations, OWASP LLM Top 10 or MITRE ATLAS involvement, conference talks.
• Experience with managed LLM platforms (e.g. Bedrock)

About The Research & Innovation Team

The R&I team at Eye Security works on problems that sit just ahead of the MDR, Incident Response, and Threat Hunting teams. That research work includes designing agentic and LLM-assisted tooling, performing offensive and vulnerability research, or investigating threat tradecraft that is relevant when it comes to protecting our customers and the platforms they rely on.

With significant freedom to explore and build, the team investigates emerging areas of cybersecurity to help Eye Security stay ahead of evolving threats.

Much of the work we do is published on research.eye.security, and we present at conferences and industry events such as BlackHat.

What We Offer

• A research role with real technical ownership over how Eye Security approaches AI security, internally and in the market.
• Direct line from research finding to shipped mitigation
• Collaborate with talented people: work with a team that has hands-on AI expertise and emphasises cooperation; learn from security specialists, engineers, and researchers across the organisation
• Quarterly get-togethers and an annual company-wide retreat to bond with colleagues, learn about the business, and have fun outside of work
• A generous time-off policy, including a volunteering day and dedicated wellbeing time off

We are an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to making our hiring process accessible to everyone. If you need a reasonable accommodation to apply or interview for this role, please inform the TA team.