Toyota

Cyber Threat Emulation Operator, Lead

Toyota$120K — $145K *
Plano, TX 75025In-Person
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Extensive experience in red teaming, adversary simulation, penetration testing, or offensive security.
  • Demonstrated ability to plan and lead complex, end-to-end security engagements in an enterprise environment.
  • Strong knowledge of modern attack techniques across identity, endpoints, networks, cloud platforms, applications, AI, and security infrastructure.
  • Hands-on experience developing offensive security tooling, automation, or agentic workflows.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Sound judgment and integrity, familiar with governance and operational safeguards related to offensive security activities.
  • Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

  • Design and execute end-to-end red team and control test engagements that reproduce realistic adversary behaviors.
  • Develop custom offensive security tooling and reusable attack capabilities.
  • Build AI-assisted and agentic workflows for various security tasks.
  • Engineer safe multi-agent systems for coordinated multi-stage adversary simulations.
  • Integrate large language models with internal telemetry for offensive security workflows.
  • Test AI-enabled applications and systems, assessing numerous vulnerabilities and data flows.
  • Work with various security teams to improve security controls through purple team exercises.
  • Stay current on global cyber trends and propose new research directions.

Benefits

  • A work environment built on teamwork, flexibility and respect.
  • Professional growth and development programs, including tuition reimbursement.
  • Team Member Vehicle Purchase Discount.
  • Comprehensive health care and wellness plans for your entire family.
  • Toyota 401(k) Savings Plan with company match and annual contributions.
  • Paid holidays and paid time off.
  • Referral services for various personal needs.
  • Relocation assistance if applicable.
Full Job Description
Overview

Who we're looking for

Toyota Financial Services (TFS) Information Security is seeking a passionate and highly motivated Cyber Threat Emulation Lead to build the next generation of threat emulation capabilities for a global enterprise. This is a hands-on technical opportunity for an experienced offensive security practitioner who wants to develop new capabilities, not simply operate an existing red team program. You will design and execute sophisticated adversary simulations while building AI-assisted and agentic tooling that changes how offensive security testing is performed. You will have the opportunity to experiment with emerging attack techniques, develop custom tooling, orchestrate multi-stage attack workflows, and apply artificial intelligence to increase the speed, adaptability, and scale of threat emulation.

This role will help define the technical direction of the TFS threat emulation capability while remaining close to the keyboard. Working across the global TFS Group companies, you will touch complex enterprise, cloud, identity, application, and AI-enabled environments, to challenge real security controls and work directly with defenders to measurably improve them.

This role is suited to an operator who enjoys researching emerging tradecraft, building tools, testing ideas in realistic environments, and turning successful prototypes into repeatable offensive security capabilities.

What you'll be doing
  • Design and execute end-to-end red team and control test engagements that reproduce realistic adversary behaviors across identity, endpoint, network, application, cloud, container, and AI-enabled environments.
  • Develop custom offensive security tooling and reusable attack capabilities rather than relying exclusively on commercial testing platforms.
  • Build AI-assisted and agentic workflows for reconnaissance, attack-path discovery, campaign planning, vulnerability analysis, payload development, control validation, and post-exploitation emulation.
  • Engineer safe multi-agent systems capable of adapting attack-paths, interpreting results, and coordinating multi-stage adversary simulations at speed and scale.
  • Integrate large language models with internal telemetry and threat intelligence to prioritize and drive offensive security workflows.
  • Test AI-enabled applications and agentic systems, including model interfaces, retrieval pipelines, tool integrations, authorization boundaries, data flows, and indirect prompt-injection paths.
  • Work directly with SOC analysts, detection engineers, incident responders, and threat intelligence analysts to break, tune, retest, and improve security controls through purple team exercises.
  • Stay current on global cyber trends and attack techniques. Propose new research directions by applying relevant insights to the Toyota environment.
  • Mentor other offensive security practitioners while remaining actively involved in research, tooling development, and engagement execution.


What you bring
  • Extensive experience in red teaming, adversary simulation, penetration testing, or offensive security.
  • Demonstrated ability to plan and lead complex, end-to-end security engagements in an enterprise environment.
  • Strong knowledge of modern attack techniques across identity, endpoints, networks, cloud platforms, applications, AI, and security infrastructure.
  • Hands-on experience developing offensive security tooling, automation, or agentic workflows.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Sound judgment, integrity, and familiarity with the governance and operational safeguards required when conducting offensive security activity.
  • Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution, or equivalent experience


Added bonus if you have
  • Relevant security certification (CRTO, OSCP, OSWE, CISSP)
  • Familiarity with security frameworks for attack (MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain), threat modeling (STRIDE, CVSS), and guidance (NIST, PCI).
  • Understanding of regulatory issuances, such as CFPB, GLBA and SOX, and their applicability to technologies, applications and privacy laws (GDPR & CCPA) and other legal and compliance privacy and information security requirements.
  • Advanced degree with a concentration in an IT related area.


What we'll bring

During your interview process, our team can fill you in on all the details of our industry-leading benefits and career development opportunities.

A few highlights include:
• A work environment built on teamwork, flexibility and respect
• Professional growth and development programs to help advance your career, as well as tuition reimbursement
• Team Member Vehicle Purchase Discount
• Toyota Team Member Lease Vehicle Program (if applicable)
• Comprehensive health care and wellness plans for your entire family
• Toyota 401(k) Savings Plan featuring a company match, as well as an annual retirement contribution from Toyota regardless of whether you contribute
• Paid holidays and paid time off
• Referral services related to prenatal services, adoption, childcare, schools and more
• Tax Advantaged Accounts (Health Savings Account, Health Care FSA, Dependent Care FSA)
• Relocation assistance (if applicable)

About Toyota

Toyota Motor Corporation is a Japanese multinational automotive manufacturer headquartered in Toyota City, Aichi, Japan. The company was founded in 1937 by Kiichiro Toyoda and has since grown to become the world's largest automotive manufacturer. Toyota Motor Corporation produces a wide range of vehicles including cars, trucks, and buses. The company is committed to sustainability and has set a goal of achieving zero carbon emissions by 2050. Toyota Motor Corporation has operations in over 170 countries and regions around the world.
Learn more about Toyota
Size
372,817 employees
Market Cap
$225.1 billion
Industry
Net Income
$1,531.2 billion
Founded
1937
5 Year Trend
+2.6%
Revenue
$26,625.1 billion
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