Position Purpose
Dartmouth College seeks a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to own and mature the institution’s vulnerability management program, integrate threat intelligence into vulnerability prioritization and defensive operations, and leverage AI to accelerate both disciplines. This role is responsible for the full vulnerability management lifecycle — from asset discovery and scanning through risk-rated prioritization, remediation coordination, and executive reporting — enriched by threat intelligence that ties vulnerability data to real-world adversary activity. You will operate across a complex environment that includes academic and administrative systems, research computing infrastructure, and a hybrid cloud footprint.
Description
What You’ll Join
Dartmouth’s cybersecurity program is in an active investment and maturation phase under new CISO leadership. You won’t be slotting into a static operation — you’ll be helping build it. The team values technical depth, clear communication, and pragmatic risk management over checkbox compliance. You’ll work with modern tooling, have direct input on how AI transforms vulnerability and threat intelligence operations, and sit at the intersection of technical execution and institutional risk strategy. The mission matters: protecting a world-class research university, its students, its faculty, and the sensitive data entrusted to it.
Required Qualifications - Education and Yrs Exp
Bachelor's degree
Required Qualifications - Skills, Knowledge and Abilities
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, cybersecurity, information systems, or a related field — or equivalent professional experience.
- 5+ years of hands-on cybersecurity engineering experience, with at least 3 years directly managing or operating a vulnerability management program.
- Experience building vulnerability management or threat intelligence programs from early maturity.
- Deep working knowledge of enterprise vulnerability scanning platforms (e.g., Tenable, Qualys, Rapid7).
- Experience consuming and operationalizing threat intelligence from commercial platforms, ISACs, and open-source feeds to inform defensive operations.
- Experience with developing vulnerability management API integrations and automations with other cybersecurity technologies.
- Demonstrated ability to drive remediation with stakeholders outside your direct reporting chain.
- Solid understanding of CVSS scoring, EPSS, KEV catalog usage, and risk-based prioritization beyond “patch everything critical.”
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in higher education, healthcare, or other environments with decentralized IT governance and federated system ownership.
- Working knowledge of industry leading EDR, SIEM and Log Management platforms.
- Hands-on experience applying AI/ML tools to vulnerability management or threat intelligence workflows — including generative AI for analysis acceleration, AI-driven prioritization models, or automated enrichment pipelines.
- Familiarity with AI-specific threat vectors (prompt injection, model manipulation, data exfiltration via AI tooling) and their implications for vulnerability management programs.
- Familiarity with compliance frameworks relevant to research universities: CMMC/NIST 800-171, HIPAA, GLBA, FERPA, ITAR/EAR.
- Experience with threat intelligence platforms (TIPs), STIX/TAXII, and MITRE ATT&CK framework mapping.
- Experience with external attack surface management (EASM) and cloud-native vulnerability assessment.
- Relevant certifications: GEVA, GCIH, GCTI, CTIA, CISSP, or equivalent.
Department Contact for Recruitment Inquiries
Kyle Hastbacka
Department Contact Phone Number
Department Contact for Cover Letter and Title
Tom Nudd, Chief Information Security Officer
Department Contact's Phone Number
Equal Opportunity Employer
Dartmouth College is an equal opportunity employer under federal law. We prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, marital status, or any other legally protected status. Applications are welcome from all.
Background Check
Employment in this position is contingent upon consent to and successful completion of a pre-employment background check, which may include a criminal background check, reference checks, verification of work history, conduct review, and verification of any required academic credentials, licenses, and/or certifications, with results acceptable to Dartmouth College. A criminal conviction will not automatically disqualify an applicant from employment. Background check information will be used in a confidential, non-discriminatory manner consistent with state and federal law.
Is driving a vehicle (e.g. Dartmouth vehicle or off road vehicle, rental car, personal car) an essential function of this job?
Not an essential function
Special Instructions to Applicants
Dartmouth College has a Tobacco-Free Policy. Smoking and the use of tobacco-based products (including smokeless tobacco) are prohibited in all facilities, grounds, vehicles or other areas owned, operated or occupied by Dartmouth College with no exceptions. For details, please see our policy. https://policies.dartmouth.edu/policy/tobacco-free-policy
