Director of Engineering Webapp and AI Attack; Fully Remote

• Lead and develop the Webapp and AI Attack engineering teams, setting clear ownership, goals, and expectations.
• Define a coherent strategy and roadmap connecting customer needs, product priorities, offensive research, and durable engineering investments.
• Build an effective leadership structure as the organization grows, hiring and coaching engineering managers and technical leaders.
• Ensure reliable mapping of pages, forms, APIs, parameters, and authentication surfaces across modern applications, including SPAs.
• Partner with technical leaders to improve attack coverage and establish benchmarks to prevent quality degradation.
• Set strategy for turning AI/LLM and agentic-system security research into safe, repeatable attack capabilities in Node Zero.
• Guide teams in assessing AI applications, trust boundaries, permissions, tool use, data sources, and deployment patterns.
• Establish quality standards for testing, reliability, observability, cost management, and operational readiness.

• Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to translate ambiguous opportunities into sequenced plans with explicit outcomes.
• Drive complex, cross-team initiatives from planning through production, identifying dependencies and risks early.
• Maintain technical depth to evaluate architecture and system health while enabling senior ICs to own implementation.

Horizon3 is a fast-growing, remote cybersecurity company that builds Node Zero, an autonomous pentesting platform for finding exploitable attack vectors. They are a fusion of former special ops cyber operators and engineers, committed to a culture of respect, collaboration, ownership, and results.