Senior AI Security Researcher

Location: Singapore

About Agoda

At Agoda, we bridge the world through travel. Our story began in 2005, when two lifelong friends and entrepreneurs, driven by their passion for travel, launched Agoda to make it easier for everyone to explore the world.

Today, we are part of Booking Holdings [NASDAQ: BKNG], with a diverse team of over 7,000 people from 90 countries, working together in offices around the globe. Every day, we connect people to destinations and experiences, with great deals across millions of hotels and holiday properties, flights, and experiences worldwide.

No two days are the same at Agoda. Data and technology are at the heart of our culture, fueling our curiosity and innovation. If you're ready to begin your best journey and help build travel for the world, join us.

Get to Know Our Team

The Security Department oversees security, compliance, GRC, and security operations for all of Agoda. We are vigilant in ensuring there is no breach or vulnerability threatening our company or endangering our employees, in order to keep Agoda safe and protected. This would be a great challenge for those who want to work with the best technology in a dynamic and advanced environment.

The Opportunity

We are looking for an AI Security Researcher with a strong offensive security mindset, published CVEs, and the ability to use AI as a hacking tool. The core of this role is finding real, exploitable issues before attackers do, prioritizing external (internet-facing) exploits, followed by internal ones.

You will build autonomous agents that research and hack on the fly by interacting with AI, and you will jailbreak AI systems.

The ideal candidate has a strong offensive security background, has already shifted to using AI to find bugs, and is hands-on and comfortable working this way.

What You Will Do

• Proactively find, exploit, and document real-world vulnerabilities, prioritizing external (internet-facing) attack paths, followed by internal ones.
• Discover issues before attackers do, with working proofs of concept and demonstrated impact.
• Build autonomous agents that hunt, attack, and iterate on the fly by interacting with AI models and tools.
• Use and develop AI-driven offensive workflows—including multi-model setups, tool-calling, notebooks, and orchestration—for continuous hunting.
• Apply deep offensive security skills, including API abuse, authentication and access control, secrets, misconfiguration, and red teaming, with AI in the loop.
• Produce CVE-quality research outcomes and drive findings through to engineering fixes.
• Design, execute, and document jailbreaks, prompt-injection attacks, model evasion, data exfiltration, and other offensive techniques against AI systems.
• Assess and attempt to compromise Model Context Protocol (MCP)-based systems and other tool-calling or plugin ecosystems.
• Build and automate security-testing workflows involving multiple models, APIs, and tools, such as Jupyter notebooks and orchestration frameworks.
• Perform offensive security testing and red teaming of AI-driven products, including API manipulation and integration abuse.
• Research security weaknesses in models and the infrastructure around them.
• Contribute to in-house guardrail design: define, implement, and test safety and security guardrails for models and AI automations.
• Propose and evaluate defensive controls, including input/output filtering, policy enforcement, monitoring, anomaly detection, and non-AI controls to secure AI systems.
• Translate research findings into practical engineering requirements and collaborate closely with product and engineering teams to implement fixes and mitigations.
• Work with multiple teams, explain risk and impact clearly, and present findings to different teams and C-level stakeholders.
• Produce clear technical documentation, proofs of concept, and knowledge-sharing materials on AI security practices and emerging attack and defense techniques.

What You Will Bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 2–7 years of experience in offensive cybersecurity.
• Published CVE(s).
• Strong offensive security knowledge, including API security testing and manipulation, and prior experience in red teaming, penetration testing, or adversarial testing.
• Hands-on jailbreak experience, including prompt injection, role confusion, data leakage, safety bypasses, and similar techniques.
• Ability to work with multiple teams, explain risk and impact, and present to different teams and C-level stakeholders.
• Good communication skills in English.
• Experience handling and maintaining production-level code.

It Would Be Great If You Have

• Proven exploits or write-ups that used AI models or agents to find or exploit bugs.
• Experience building autonomous agents that interact with AI to attack or test systems on the fly.
• Experience using AI in day-to-day offensive security work to find bugs, and comfort with that shift.
• A bug bounty or HackerOne (or similar) track record.
• Conference presentations.

Salary and Location

This role is based in Singapore.

Monthly base salary: SGD 9,100–13,700

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