Lead Engineer, AI Attack Simulation
HiddenLayer1 month ago
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction, architecture, and execution of the AI Attack Simulation product.
- Partner with Product Management and Security Research to define strategy, roadmap, customer outcomes, and measurable success criteria.
- Design and build agentic workflows, tool integrations, execution systems, guardrails, and evaluation frameworks.
- Establish an AI-first workflow spanning discovery, research, solution design, prototyping, implementation, validation, release, and continuous improvement.
- Remain hands-on with architecture, prototyping, implementation, and complex technical problem-solving.
- Mentor engineers, lead technical reviews, support hiring, and improve reliability, security, observability, and product quality standards.
Requirements
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including technical leadership of complex production systems.
- Strong backend, distributed-systems, and cloud-native engineering experience.
- Experience building AI-first product development workflows and leading teams toward ownership of customer problems, product tradeoffs, and measurable outcomes.
- Experience building production AI or agentic systems involving tool use, orchestration, structured outputs, state management, guardrails, and evaluation.
- Cybersecurity product experience or related experience in offensive security, attack simulation, AI security, red teaming, penetration testing, or control validation.
- Strong proficiency in Go and experience with at least one additional production language such as Python, Rust, Java, or TypeScript.
- Strong product judgment and experience partnering directly with Product Management.
- Ability to mentor engineers, influence technical direction, and lead through ambiguity.
- Preferred qualifications include AI red teaming, adversarial machine learning, AI security evaluation, autonomous security testing, breach and attack simulation, adversary emulation, attack-path validation, or continuous security validation experience.
- Preferred qualifications include familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK or ATLAS, agent orchestration technologies, AI evaluation datasets and regression frameworks, secure sandboxes, enterprise or air-gapped software, and hiring and developing senior engineers.
Benefits
- Fully remote within the US, with team gatherings a couple of times per year.
- Home office setup stipend, annual workspace upgrades, and monthly internet and phone stipends.
- Health, vision, dental, and 401k benefits, including five health plan options with three fully subsidized by HiddenLayer.
- Unlimited flexible time off for salaried employees and 15 paid company holidays.
- Dedicated learning and development fund for training, conferences, certifications, and industry events.
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