# Cyber Red Team Researcher **Company**: Ford Motor Company **Location**: Allen Park, MI **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: $99,600 - $192,900 **Category**: IT **Industry**: Automotive **Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q44294 **Apply**: https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/69191?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_ddca48c5-d3e ## Description We are seeking a senior offensive security professional to join our Red Team, which operates as a highly technical offensive security team focused on identifying, demonstrating, and reducing meaningful risk across the enterprise. The successful candidate will combine deep technical capability with curiosity, initiative, and a strong bias toward action. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys solving difficult problems, building tools when existing solutions are not enough, and operating effectively in environments where the path forward may not already be defined. **Responsibilities** - Lead and execute complex Red Team engagements that simulate realistic adversary behavior across applications, infrastructure, cloud, identity, and enterprise environments. - Operate effectively in ambiguous environments, proactively identifying opportunities and moving from idea to execution with limited direction. - Identify and exploit vulnerabilities, attack paths, trust relationships, and control weaknesses to demonstrate meaningful business risk. - Develop custom offensive tooling, automation, and capabilities when existing tools are insufficient for the mission. - Apply AI and agentic systems as a force multiplier for offensive operations, including research, attack development, reconnaissance, analysis, and workflow automation. - Design, build, and improve autonomous or semi-autonomous offensive workflows that increase the speed, scale, and consistency of Red Team operations. - Research emerging attack techniques, technologies, and adversary behaviors, and translate that research into practical offensive capabilities. - Collaborate closely with other Red Team members, defenders, engineers, and security partners to communicate findings and drive meaningful improvements. - Mentor and share knowledge with other team members through technical collaboration, code review, tooling development, and engagement support. - Clearly communicate complex technical findings, attack narratives, and risk to both technical and leadership audiences. - Continuously challenge existing approaches, experiment with new techniques, and help evolve how the Red Team operates. **Qualifications** - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Cybersecurity, or a related field, OR a combination of education and professional experience in offensive security. - 5+ years of hands-on experience in Red Team operations, penetration testing, adversary simulation, security research, or other offensive security disciplines. - Strong understanding of common attack techniques, attacker tradecraft, exploitation methodologies, and modern enterprise attack surfaces. - Hands-on experience with offensive security tooling and frameworks such as Kali Linux, Burp Suite, Metasploit, Nmap, command-and-control frameworks, and other penetration testing or adversary simulation tools. - Strong scripting or software development skills in one or more languages such as Python, Go, JavaScript, PowerShell, C#, or similar languages used for offensive tooling and automation. - Demonstrated ability to independently investigate complex technical problems, develop attack paths, and move from concept to execution with limited direction. - Ability to succeed in a highly dynamic and unstructured environment while balancing multiple technical priorities. - Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and creative problem-solving skills. - Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with teammates and partners across a wide range of technical backgrounds and experience levels. - Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly explain complex attack scenarios and technical risk. **Benefits** - Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage - Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care and more - Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments, and more - Vehicle discount program for employees and family members and management leases - Tuition assistance - Established and active employee resource groups - Paid time off for individual and team community service - A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day - Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time. ## Skills ### Required - offensive security - Red Team operations - penetration testing - adversary simulation - security research - Python - Go - JavaScript - PowerShell - C# ### Nice to have - AI - agentic systems - automation - custom offensive tooling - social engineering - identity-based attacks - cloud exploitation - application security testing --- Source: [Apply at efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com](https://efds.fa.em5.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1/job/69191?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)