Detection & Response Engineer

About the Company At Future Secure AI, we're building something genuinely new — and we're looking for people bold enough to build it with us. We work at the frontier of AI, tackling big, real-world problems for global enterprises across multiple industries, armed with state-of-the-art technology and a culture that prizes courage, rigor, and relentless curiosity. Our BRAVER values aren't just words on a wall — they describe the kind of people we are and the standard we hold ourselves to every day. Our leadership team is entrepreneurial, experienced, and accessible, with an open-door policy that means you'll never be just a number here. We invest seriously in your growth because we know our success depends on yours. If you're ready to work alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry, push into uncharted territory, and do work that genuinely matters, Future Secure AI is the place for you. About the RoleWe are hiring a Detection & Response Engineer to help build FSAI's security program from the ground up. As one of our founding hires, you will own an entire domain, not just a slice of someone else's project. You'll serve as an incident handler on our on-call rotation, balanced across Australia and North American time zones so that coverage follows the sun rather than asking you to work off-hours. We treat security as a systems problem: our default is to solve problems smartly through automation and scale, engineering our way out of manual toil rather than accepting a baseline of endless ticket processing. We seek out industry-leading vendors and approaches rather than defaulting to what is slow and safe, and we design controls that protect the business without degrading the engineering or end-user experience. This is all new, so expect it to be bumpy while we build it out.ResponsibilitiesDesign, build, test, and tune high-fidelity detections across endpoints, cloud, identity, and infrastructure, aligned to attacker TTPsBuild and improve log onboarding, enrichment, and the pipelines that feed detection and investigation on our logging platform (e.g., Scanner)Build automation (e.g., Tines) that scales triage, investigation, and response, wired directly into our on-call and paging systems (e.g., incident.io, PagerDuty)Translate raw intel and security research into actionable, automated detection logicInvestigate alerts, drive incidents to resolution, and coordinate with the endpoint stack (e.g., CrowdStrike, Microsoft Defender, Huntress), feeding lessons learned back into detections and runbooksMinimum Qualifications5+ years of experience in detection engineering, security operations, or security engineeringStrong scripting and development skills in Python and/or GoProven experience building detections against large-scale log data and working with a logging or SIEM-style platformDeep knowledge of operating-system internals, cloud (AWS) security concepts, and common attacker techniquesA strong bias toward automating recurring problems rather than absorbing themPreferred QualificationsDepth in threat hunting, digital forensics, malware analysis, or threat intelligenceExperience with detection-as-code and building CI/CD pipelines for detectionsFamiliarity with automation/SOAR platforms and case management systemsExperience applying ML/LLM techniques to detection (e.g., enrichment, correlation, risk-based alerting)Why Join Us?A high-performance cultureState-of-the-art technologyExperience world-class leadershipScale of impact and purposeA competitive salary and a huge growth trajectoryWork with the best in the industryFlexible work environmentDiversity and creativity Future Secure AI Privacy PolicyAt Future Secure AI, we are committed to protecting your privacy and adhering to the principles of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). Our Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, share, and protect your personal data when you visit our website at www.futuresecure.ai (the "Website") and use our services.