Team8 Stealth Cyber Startup- Founding Vulnerability Researcher
Team8
Posted on Apr 30, 2026
Description
Come join an early-stage stealth Cyber startup to help build our offensive capabilities from the ground up. In this high-impact role, you’ll be a key player in our R&D core team, shaping the technical heart of the product. You’ll sit at the intersection of world-class offensive research and core agentic AI research.
What You’ll Do
- Original Research: Discover novel vulnerabilities, attack primitives, and exploitation techniques across various surfaces.
- Exploit Development: Build reliable, weaponizable proof-of-concepts that hold up in real production environments.
- Research to Product: Translate your offensive techniques into real capabilities.
- Adversarial Tradecraft: Develop methodologies that mirror how top attackers actually operate end-to-end.
- Red Team Validation: Stress-test the product against hardened targets and push the ceiling of what it can do.
- Technical Voice: Represent the company in the research community through talks, papers, and disclosures.
Requirements:
- Track Record: Demonstrable experience of offensive work — previous roles, bug bounty, CTF reputation, published CVEs, or original research published.
- Depth: Deep expertise in at least one offensive domain — web/app vulnerability research, cloud, identity, kernel/OS internals, network protocols, or AI/LLM security.
- Builder’s Instinct: Comfortable in Python, Go, or Rust. Able to ship research into production-quality code.
- Founding DNA: Comfortable with ambiguity and zero-to-one. You want ownership.
- Language: High proficiency in English (written and spoken).
- Location: Tel Aviv, in-person — this is a founding team role.