- Bachelor’s degree or Master’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.
- 8+ years in software engineering, security engineering, or related areas, including hands-on technical leadership.
- Excellent software engineering skills, including crafting and building backend services, APIs, automation, or platform components in various programming environments. The role requires quickly learning new paradigms, frameworks, and tools as needed.
- Experience with multi-contributor software projects and long-running software projects.
- Familiarity with building agents, AI tooling, and architectures.
- Track record of framing problem spaces, defining an MVP, prototyping quickly, and evolving ideas into production systems.
- Familiarity with offensive security, adversarial thinking, red teaming, or attack-path analysis, capable of applying that perspective to architecture decisions and security tradeoffs.
- Flexibility and willingness to frequently collaborate across organizational boundaries, balancing security with usability and adoption.
Ways to stand out from the crowd
- Demonstrate strong human-centered thinking, carefully integrating underlying requirements from researchers and users into code.
- Excellent software engineering instincts, including the ability to build reusable frameworks, understand and refine requirements, build tooling that improve engineering velocity and consistency.
- Deep familiarity with open-source projects, including community involvement, workflow, and governance.
- Experience with agentic or AI-adjacent systems, such as tool-using applications, workflow orchestration, evaluation loops, policy controls, memory/context services, or trust and discovery systems.
- Understanding of AI-specific security risks such as injection, tool misuse, unauthorized access expansion, data exfiltration, or unsafe delegation patterns.
Your base salary will be determined based on your location, experience, and other objective job-related factors. The expected base salary ranges for this position are: 184,000 USD – 287,500 USD for Level 4; and 224,000 USD – 356,500 USD for Level 5.
You will also be eligible for equity and benefits.
Applications for this job will be accepted at least until November 3, 2026.
This posting is for an existing vacancy.
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