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Founding Security Researcher Lead

Asymptote· Engineering
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New York City$150k - $300kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Founding Security Research Lead to define the future of AI agent security, working directly with the founders to discover new attack techniques, build detections, influence the product roadmap, and establish a new security category.

Responsibilities

  • Research Emerging AI Threats: Investigate real-world attacks targeting AI agents and autonomous systems; Discover novel attack techniques across coding agents, MCPs, CI pipelines, cloud environments, and developer tooling; Reverse engineer emerging threats and publish technical analyses; Build proof-of-concept exploits that push the frontier of AI security.
  • Build World-Class Detections: Turn offensive research into production-grade detections; Develop new detection methodologies for prompt injection, tool abuse, privilege escalation, credential theft, data exfiltration, and agent persistence; Build datasets and benchmarks; Expand detection library.
  • Build Research Tooling: Create internal frameworks for discovering, reproducing, and analyzing AI agent attacks; Develop automation for rapid experimentation across AI coding assistants and agent frameworks; Build reproducible research environments and evaluation harnesses; Contribute tooling back to Beacon.
  • Publish Industry-Leading Research: Write technical blogs, whitepapers, deep dives; Present findings at security conferences; Release open-source tooling and datasets; Establish Asymptote as a leading technical authority in AI agent security.
  • Shape the Product: Translate research into product capabilities; Prioritize detection coverage and response mechanisms; Collaborate with enterprise design partners to understand attack patterns; Influence roadmap through research.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in offensive security, security research, detection engineering, red teaming, or vulnerability research.
  • Experience discovering, analyzing, or detecting sophisticated real-world attacks.
  • Strong software engineering skills with the ability to rapidly build research tooling and proof-of-concepts.
  • Experience publishing original technical research, open-source projects, or conference talks.
  • Deep curiosity and habit of experimenting with new AI systems as they emerge.
  • Exceptional technical writing and communication skills.
  • High agency and excitement to build Asymptote's research function from the ground up.

Skills

Required:Offensive securityAttack research and analysisTooling developmentTechnical writing and communication

Benefits

  • Compensation: $150K – $300K base salary; Offers Equity; Offers Bonus
  • Meaningful founding-stage equity for the right candidate.
Last updated Aug 17, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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