Security Research Lead

Summary of the Role: As Security Research Lead at Maze, your research directly shapes our products and how our AI understands real risk. This is a unique opportunity to join a well-funded Series A startup building at the intersection of generative AI and cybersecurity, leading the research function that makes our products sharper than anything else on the market — and gives Maze a credible technical voice in the security community. You'll set the bar for our vulnerability research: defining the methodologies that separate critical risk from noise, validating and contextualising the threats our AI surfaces, and feeding that expertise straight into product and engineering to improve how we detect, prioritise, and remediate. You'll work hand-in-hand with our AI/ML, product, and engineering teams — close to the roadmap and the code, not off to one side — turning what you find into capabiliti