Cyber Red Team Researcher

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Enterprise Technology plays a critical part in shaping the future of mobility. If youre looking for the chance to leverage advanced technology to redefine the transportation landscape enhance the customer experience and improve peoples lives this is the opportunity for you. Join us and challenge your IT expertise and analytical skills to help create vehicles that are as smart as you are.

Fords Red Team operates as a highly technical offensive security team focused on identifying demonstrating and helping reduce meaningful risk across the enterprise. Our work spans traditional adversary simulation application and infrastructure testing social engineering attack development custom tooling and emerging technologies.

We are looking for a senior offensive security professional who combines 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.

Our team is also increasingly AI-native. We use custom autonomous agents and AI-enabled workflows to expand the speed scale and depth of our offensive operations. We do not view AI as a replacement for skilled operators; we view it as a force multiplier for people who already understand how attackers think. The ideal candidate will bring strong offensive fundamentals and be excited to help shape how AI automation and agentic systems are applied to real-world security problems.

Just as importantly this person should make the team better. We value people who share knowledge collaborate freely challenge ideas constructively and bring energy to the work. The strongest candidates will be technically excellent highly self-directed and motivated by building experimenting and delivering results

What youll do...

• 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.

Youll have...

• Bachelors 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.

Even better you may have...

• Experience developing custom offensive security tooling frameworks payloads automation or attack infrastructure.
• Experience applying large language models AI-assisted development automation or agentic systems to technical workflows.
• Experience designing or integrating autonomous or semi-autonomous workflows agents or orchestration frameworks.
• Experience conducting social engineering identity-based attacks cloud exploitation application security testing or adversary simulation in large enterprise environments.
• Experience mentoring other security professionals or providing technical leadership during complex offensive engagements.
• Demonstrated curiosity and enthusiasm for emerging technologies offensive research and experimentation.

You may not check every box or your experience may look a little different from what weve outlined but if you think you can bring value to Ford Motor Company we encourage you to apply!

As an established global company we offer the benefit of choice. You can choose what your Ford future will look like: will your story span the globe or keep you close to home Will your career be a deep dive into what you love or a series of new teams and new skills Will you be a leader a changemaker a technical expert a culture builderor all of the above No matter what you choose we offer a work life that works for you including:

• 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 Years Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.

For a detailed look at our benefits click here: This is a hybrid role you are expected to relocate if you are not within commutable distance and responsible to be on site 4 days a week

This position is a range of salary grade(s) 7-8 $99600 - $192900

Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

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