Senior Threat Hunter

About the role

SimSpace serves as an AI Proving Ground where organizations can confidently train, test, and outmaneuver adversaries in any environment. Trusted by allied governments, militaries, enterprises, and research institutions worldwide, SimSpace enables adaptive, AI-ready defenses that stay ahead of evolving threats. Founded in 2015 by experts from U.S. Cyber Command and MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the platform unifies training, testing, and validation in a realistic, live-fire simulation—helping teams evaluate security investments, optimize performance, and compress cyber readiness cycles from months to days.

We are looking for a highly motivated Cybersecurity Professional to support mentorship and assessment of global security teams in basic to advanced cybersecurity skill areas. You will drive regional efforts to develop authentic scenarios that excite potential clients and own the project management of the event utilizing your deep technical background. The ideal candidate has real experiences in complex incident response scenarios, is enthusiastic, is good at problem solving, has a strong desire to learn, prefers to be hands-on technically, and constantly strives for excellence. The Senior Threat Hunter will be part of a team delivering instructional content to customers on deeply technical cybersecurity concepts, designing tests to develop AI agents and models, and facilitating a variety of cyber defense exercises for SimSpace and our customers. When facilitating exercises, you will be responsible for teaching security concepts, demonstrating practical/hands-on use of open source and commercial security tools, and referencing both well established and cutting edge techniques that Cybersecurity Incident Response Teams might use to effectively defend their networks from advanced cyber threats.

Responsibilities

• Bring world class mentorship and development of advanced threat hunting tactics and strategy for our global clients and international organizations.
• Operate as a highly technical client lead with experience in emerging technologies and implementation of cybersecurity safeguards in large enterprise networks, to include Operational Technologies (OT), the Internet of Things (IoT), and Large Language Models (LLM).
• Serve as a technical consultant to customers looking to integrate AI agentic capabilities into their cybersecurity enterprise in how to identify, integrate and test capabilities prior to deployment.
• Work with our range operations team to develop toolsets and cyber threat scenarios within a cybersecurity range to model real-world threat defense scenarios.
• Utilize foresight and awareness of overall business priorities when dealing with competing requirements and needs from across the organization in order to build consensus and drive results.
• Utilize years of Blue Teaming experience to establish parsing rules, dashboards, and tuning of numerous enterprise security tools in our cyber range platform to exceed client goals and objectives.
• Takes initiative in day-to-day tasks, leads projects, and is eager to mentor other team members.
• Navigate and work effectively across a complex, geographically dispersed organization.
• Support assessment of customer security teams and customer events (travel estimated up to 25%).

Qualifications

• Experience generating unique cyber threat research and developing successful proposals for conference training and engagements.
• Possess a deep understanding of AI agents, specializing in the orchestration of agent decision loops, tool access frameworks, and memory systems optimized for threat hunting and proactive security operations.
• Direct experience performing threat hunting in active corporate environments.
• 6+ years of experience in a technical role in the areas of Security Operations, Incident Response, Detection Engineering, Offensive Security/Red Team, or Cyber Threat Intelligence.
• Experience analyzing host, network, and application telemetry for indicators of attack across the stages of the cyber kill chain.
• Direct experience working with very large datasets and log analysis tools including but not limited to: Splunk, Elastic, Python, Pandas, SQL, Hadoop, Hue.
• Experience consuming and analyzing Cyber Threat Intelligence for actionable takeaways for current threat hunts.
• Ability to apply Cyber Threat Intelligence through enrichment, correlation, and attribution.
• Experience with setup and/or troubleshooting of security stacks.
• Familiarity with offensive security strategies and assessment methodology.
• Experience explaining threat hunt objectives to mixed technical and non-technical audiences and ability to communicate associated risk by distilling complex content into digestible information.
• Hands-on technical experience and ability to demonstrate hunting for indicators of compromise in numerous enterprise scale EDR and SIEM tools to include Splunk, Elastic, Crowdstrike, and many other major vendors.
• Previous experience performing digital forensics or incident response on major security incidents.
• Demonstrated self-starter with a constant desire to help others improve and build the team.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, plus savings plans—coverage starts on day one.
• Access to company-paid counseling, coaching, and resources for you and your family through Spring Health.
• 401(k) retirement savings plan featuring a company match.
• Flexible time off including flex vacation, company holidays, and dedicated health & wellness days.
• Paid parental leave plans.
• Equity stock options at hire, with annual performance-based grants.
• Peloton Interactive Wellness Program: full- and partial-subsidized membership plans and equipment discounts.
• LinkedIn Learning membership for personal and professional development.
• Monthly reimbursements for meaningful connections with teammates through our SocialSpace Community.
• Legal plan coverage, pet insurance, wellness reimbursements, and more.

Pay

Base salary range: $135,000 - $150,000, reflecting our confidence in your expertise and impact, with the opportunity for annual bonuses tied to company performance and individual contributions. Actual compensation for the position is based on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to affordability, skills, qualifications and experience, and may vary from the range.