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Senior/Staff Security Researcher

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about 3 hours ago
Remote, United StatesSenior / Staff+
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Base Salary

$190k - $319k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build detection at scale by designing and shipping security workflows.
  • Engineer agentic pipelines and prompts for LLMs in security-critical work.
  • Close the gap between finding vulnerabilities and validating their significance.
  • Design benchmarks and evaluation loops based on real customer codebases.
  • Model vulnerability classes and security properties as reusable logic.
  • Learn new languages and frameworks to understand vulnerabilities.
  • Prototype new products in collaboration with Engineering and Product teams.
  • Publish research findings and represent Semgrep in the community.
  • Lead and plan impactful research based on industry trends.

Requirements

  • Strong application security expertise and understanding of vulnerability classes.
  • Experience in finding vulnerabilities and explaining their context to developers.
  • Fluency in writing and auditing code in two or more programming languages.
  • A builder's mindset focused on automation and scalable solutions.
  • Curiosity about applied AI/LLMs and their practical applications.
  • Experience with LLM/agent systems in production environments.
  • Desire to learn and adapt to new technologies and frameworks.
  • Ability to operate autonomously and manage ambiguous problems.
  • Enjoyment in sharing knowledge through writing and presentations.

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity compensation.
  • Market-aligned benefits program that meets or exceeds local standards.
  • Support for employee well-being and long-term success.

Tech Stack

Argo CDKubernetes

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