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Research Engineer

depthfirst· Applied Research
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San FranciscoFull-timePosted 6mo ago

About the role

We’re seeking an experienced Research Engineer to join our effort in building and training AI agents for vulnerability discovery and exploitation. Build and evaluate AI agentic pipelines to find and remediate software vulnerabilities at scale, contributing to a product used to fix critical vulnerabilities for customers and open source codebases.

Responsibilities

  • Build State-of-the-Art AI Agentic pipelines optimized for discovering intricate software vulnerabilities and generate exploits
  • Design, Maintain and Evolve evaluation benchmarks for AI agents that reflects the problems our users face
  • Design & Develop training procedures and reinforcement learning environments to train security coding agents
  • Work on a Product that Solves a Critical Problem - and we already have a handful of customers who have found it valuable in fixing some eye-opening vulnerabilities within the first few days of using our product.

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of full-time experience in AI research engineering in machine learning, deep learning, and/or natural language processing
  • Experience with developing machine learning models at scale from inception to business impact
  • Programming experience in Python and hands-on experience with frameworks such as PyTorch
  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent industry experience
  • A love for technology, and an insatiable curiosity for new tools to tackle real problems
  • Capable of solving complex problems with simple solutions. Building reliable and scalable products, making right trade-offs along the way
  • A tendency to leave things in a better way than you found it

Skills

Required:AI research engineeringMachine learning at scalePython

Benefits

  • Competitive salary with meaningful equity
  • Health, Vision, and Dental Insurance
  • Office lunch and dinner (when working from our San Francisco office)
Last updated Jul 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Autonomous Security from Design to Production

An AI-native platform that understands your code, business logic, and infrastructure to find more vulnerabilities, slash false positives, and give developers actionable fixes in their workflow.

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