AI Engineer

Job description

About TryHackMe TryHackMe is a cybersecurity education platform used by 7 million+ security practitioners worldwide. We build the tools that help security teams learn, practise, and stay sharp - from foundational skills training through to enterprise-grade capability testing. Live Breach is our newest product: a high-fidelity breach simulation experience for enterprise security teams. We provision real cloud infrastructure, deploy realistic attack scenarios against it, and challenge the blue team to investigate, contain, and eradicate - end to end, in real time. The goal is to make it feel indistinguishable from a real incident. We're hiring a contractor to own the AI engineering at the core of this product. The role: You'll build and own the AI systems that make Live Breach feel like a real incident rather than a scripted exercise. That centres on two interconnected components: The AI attacker agent - an autonomous LLM-powered agent that receives a threat actor profile, a network briefing, and a configured attack chain, then executes it against a live environment. The core engineering challenge is making this agent adaptive: when the defending team takes containment actions in rea...