Updated August 8, 2026

20 open positions

Vulnerability Research Jobs with a Great Work-Life Balance

Browse 20+ vulnerability research jobs at companies offering unlimited PTO and generous parental leave—full pay and a better work-life balance. 6 new this week. Hiring companies include Anthropic, Parsons Corporation, and VulnCheck.

Jobs

New This Week

10+

Companies

Updated Daily

Senior Vulnerability Research Engineer

Parsons Corporation

RemoteUSA

70 · Great9 day fortnight$148k – $267k

Vulnerability Research Engineer

Parsons Corporation

RemoteUSA

70 · Great9 day fortnight$104k – $181k

Senior Application Security Engineer

Clover Health

RemoteUSA

63 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$135k – $175k

Offensive Security Engineer

ClickHouse

RemoteNetherlands

64 · Good5 day weekGenerous PTO

SecOps Engineer

1mo

Lido

RemoteWorldwide

63 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible

Product Security Analyst

1mo

HackerOne

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$120k – $155k

Sr. Exploit Developer (US)

3mo

VulnCheck

RemoteUSA

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Staff Engineer - Offensive Security

1mo

Twilio

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$156k – $229k

Senior Web Security Engineer, Browser Platform

4mo

DuckDuckGo

RemoteUSA

61 · Good5 day weekVery Flexible$179k

Senior/Staff Security Researcher

14d

Semgrep

RemoteUSA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

AI Security Fellow

2mo

Anthropic

RemoteUSA

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$154/wk

Senior Vulnerability Research Engineer

Parsons Corporation

HybridCentreville +2 more

70 · Great9 day fortnight$148k – $267k

Researcher, Cybersecurity Products

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco, USA

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$320k – $405k

Sr. Exploit Developer

3mo

VulnCheck

HybridCheltenham, UK

62 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Security Software Engineer, Open Source Frameworks

22d

Vercel

HybridSan Francisco +3 more

61 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO$208k – $312k

Staff Offensive Security Engineer

3mo

Greenlight

HybridBengaluru, India

58 · Good5 day weekUnlimited PTO

Senior Application Security Engineer

17d

ServiceNow

HybridPetah Tikva, Israel

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work

Senior Staff Product Security Engineer | Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT)

24d

ServiceNow

HybridKirkland, USA

57 · Good5 day weekBest Place to Work$201k – $352k

Platform Security Engineering, Operating Systems

1mo

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$320k – $405k

Platform Security Engineer, OpenBMC

1mo

Anthropic

HybridSan Francisco +2 more

55 · Good5 day weekGenerous Parental Leave$320k – $405k

Every role is a genuine reduced-hours position, manually curated and refreshed daily. How we curate

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Everything you need to know about 4-day week jobs

Employers hiring for Vulnerability Research on this page include Anthropic, Parsons Corporation, and VulnCheck. Vulnerability Research roles appear most frequently in engineering, data, and platform teams at companies that have adopted a reduced-hours schedule. Each listing indicates the seniority level and whether Vulnerability Research is a primary requirement or one of several preferred skills — expand any role above to see the full stack and responsibilities.

Vulnerability Research roles span the full seniority range — we list 20 open roles requiring Vulnerability Research across entry-level, mid-level, senior, lead, and staff/principal positions. Senior and above tend to dominate because employers offering reduced-hours schedules often lean toward experienced individual contributors who can deliver consistently in fewer hours. Filter by level in the sidebar to narrow the list above.

Lead with measurable outcomes over time spent — Vulnerability Research hiring managers at reduced-hours companies care about delivered value, not hours worked. Highlight projects where you shipped at a steady cadence, collaborated asynchronously, or reduced engineering toil through automation or tooling. Include concrete metrics (latency improvements, adoption numbers, cost reductions) rather than vague duty descriptions. Expand listings above to see the exact framing each employer uses in their job descriptions.

For the full-pay schedules here — 4-day weeks and 9-day fortnights — yes: you keep a full-time salary for a shorter week. Part-time and pro-rata roles instead scale pay to hours, and each listing makes the arrangement clear. Vulnerability Research roles in tech and data typically command premium rates at both reduced-hours and traditional employers; specific ranges depend on seniority, location, and sub-specialty (e.g. backend vs frontend, infra vs ML). Individual listings above show exact bands where the employer publishes them.

Depends on the role, but Vulnerability Research candidates who also demonstrate async communication, clean documentation, and cross-functional collaboration are typically strong fits for reduced-hours employers — those companies rely on written-first communication and high-context handoffs to operate on a compressed schedule. Technical-adjacent skills vary by stack. Browse the top skills shown in the sidebar to see which tags co-occur most often with Vulnerability Research on current listings.