Team8

Team8 Stealth Cyber Startup- Founding Vulnerability Researcher

Team8  •  Tel Aviv, IL (Onsite)  •  18 days ago
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Job 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.
Team8

About Team8

Team8 is a global venture group with deep domain expertise that creates companies and invests in companies specializing in enterprise technologies, cyber, AI, fintech and digital health. Leveraging an in-house, multi-disciplinary team of company-builders integrated with a dedicated community of C-level executives and thought leaders, Team8’s model is designed to outline big problems, ideate solutions, and help accelerate success through technology, market fit and talent acquisition. Team8’s leadership team represents serial entrepreneurs, industry pioneers and the former leadership of Israel’s elite tech and intelligence Unit 8200. Founded in 2014, Team8 is backed by global companies including Microsoft, Walmart, Cisco, Barclays and Moody’s, among others.

To learn more about Team8 visit www.team8.vc

Industry
Finance & Insurance
Company Size
201-500 employees
Headquarters
Tel Aviv, IL
Year Founded
2014
Website
team8.vc
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