Principal Vulnerability Engineer - Remote
Xact Placements Limited
Job Description
Job Description Maximise your chances of a successful application to this job by ensuring your CV and skills are a good match. Principal Vulnerability Engineer | High-Growth Cybersecurity Scale-Up | Fully Remote (UK) Remote – UK Based Up to £110,000 + benefits Permanent – Full time Got a track record of 0-day discoveries, public CVEs, and a reputation for finding bugs that actually move the needle? Join a research-driven, venture-backed cybersecurity scale-up trusted by Fortune 500 enterprises and critical infrastructure providers.
Recognised by Gartner, $29M funded, and scaling fast worldwide. As a Principal Vulnerability Engineer, you’ll own the full vulnerability lifecycle – from discovery, through detection, to deployment – building production-grade tooling and pioneering LLM-powered offensive security workflows. What you’ll be doing: Leading deep research across 0-days and n-days, with patch diffing across source-available and binary-only targets Designing tooling for automated vulnerability discovery, exploit validation, and detection signature generation Architecting production-grade, LLM-powered research workflows Focusing on the vulnerabilities that matter – RCEs, auth bypasses, the bugs that change a client’s risk posture overnight What they’re looking for: 5+ years of mixed vulnerability research and software engineering experience A demonstrable track record xwzovoh of original 0-day discovery – public advisories, CVEs, or equivalent Deep n-day research and patch diffing chops Confidence across both web and binary vulnerability classes Production-grade software engineering experience, ideally in Python Mastery of Burp Suite, Ghidra/IDA, debuggers, fuzzers Hands-on experience using LLMs in research workflows Remote working/work at home options are available for this role.