Vulncheck
Senior AI Engineer (Maryland, US)
Maryland · Senior · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 8 hours ago
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About the role
- You'll be designing multi-stage agentic pipelines that automate real stages of the vulnerability research lifecycle, including patch diffing, root cause analysis, AI-driven PoC generation, and detection engineering.
- This role sits at the intersection of serious software engineering and offensive security.
- You'll be joining a collaborative, supportive environment that values intellectual curiosity, technical mastery, and personal growth.
Responsibilities
- Architect and develop an AI system that automates stages of the exploit development lifecycle, including (but not limited to) vulnerability analysis, patch diffing, proof-of-concept discovery and generation, exploit validation, and signature creation.
- Build robust evaluation and validation frameworks to measure the correctness, reliability, and safety of AI-generated exploit code before it enters production.
- Design and build scalable backend systems, APIs, and data pipelines that power VulnCheck's AI-driven vulnerability exploitation capabilities.
- Own services end-to-end, including architecture, development, deployment, and operation.
- Lead technical design discussions and contribute to system architecture decisions
- Debug complex production issues and implement long-term, scalable solutions
- 7+ years of software development experience building and scaling production systems
- Proven experience building and operating AI-powered systems in production, including multi-step agentic workflows, tool use integration, prompt engineering with systematic evaluation, and reliability engineering for non-deterministic outputs
- Experience building evaluation frameworks to measure correctness and safety of AI-generated code is highly valued
Nice to have
- Prior cybersecurity work experience (at a vendor or in government).
- Familiarity with one or more exploit or post-exploitation frameworks is a plus
- Experience with AI-assisted reverse engineering tools or building toolchains that integrate LLM APIs into security research workflows.
- IMPORTANT NOTE: This position may involve access to technology subject to U.S. export control regulations.
- Employment is contingent upon the company's ability to authorize access under applicable export control, sanctions, and any other applicable legal or contractual requirements.
- The company does not guarantee and is under no obligation to seek such authorization if it would be necessary.
Compensation
- Competitive salary with employee equity program
Benefits
- VulnCheck offers benefits designed to meet a wide range of needs and lifestyles.
- Benefits and Perks
- Competitive salary with employee equity program
- Health, dental, and vision coverage
- Expense reimbursement for home internet and phone
- Ongoing professional development, coaching, and learning resources
- Opportunities for career advancement within a fast-growing team
- We have a sense of duty to protect the critical infrastructure we rely on including medical devices, power grids and telecommunication networks.
Company info
- About VulnCheck
- Exploitation prevention is only as strong as the intelligence driving those efforts, and most of the industry is still running on intelligence that lacks exploit context.
- VulnCheck, The Exploit Intelligence Company, delivers structured exploit intelligence on what is actively weaponized in the wild, purpose-built for the data lakes, ETL pipelines, automation, and AI and LLM workflows your infrastructure already runs on, raising the capability of everything it powers.
- Influence how vulnerabilities are classified, scored, mapped, and remediated at scale for enterprise customers and for the entire cybersecurity industry.
- Shape the industry: Influence how vulnerabilities are classified, scored, mapped, and remediated at scale for enterprise customers and for the entire cybersecurity industry.
- We were founded in 2021 in Lexington, Massachusetts.
- VulnCheck has a transparent, collaborative, and supportive culture - we are looking for people who have a growth mindset, are curious and innovative.
Equal opportunity
- Equal Opportunity Employer.
Visa & Work Authorization
- export control regulations
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