Founding Engineer, Early Career

ABOUT THE ROLE Join a founding engineering team at an early-stage cybersecurity startup building infrastructure to monitor and secure enterprise AI systems. You will own work across the platform, from data ingestion to real-time detection, and help shape its technical direction while working closely with enterprise customers. WHAT YOU'LL DO Build and ship end-to-end features for enterprise deployments, iterating quickly as customer needs emerge. Develop data pipelines that ingest high-volume telemetry from endpoint, network, identity, and AI systems. Design real-time detection and policy enforcement for emerging risks in AI agents. Work directly with customers during evaluations and deployments, including delivering features during active engagements. Train and evaluate small models for low-latency decisions based on behavioral patterns. Test models and agents for prompt injection, tool misuse, data exposure, and scope drift. Contribute to platform architecture and technical direction. WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR 0 to 5 years of software engineering experience, including internships, with backend or full-stack production deployment experience. Strong backend and systems fundamentals, including distributed systems, infrastructure, or streaming data pipelines. Experience at a startup, along with evidence of shipping production systems in high-caliber engineering environments. Experience with Go or Rust, cloud infrastructure, real-time data systems, or security integrations. Interest or experience in cybersecurity, security engineering, adversarial testing, applied machine learning, model fine-tuning, or post-training. Customer-facing engineering experience, quantitative problem-solving, or competitive programming experience is a plus. COMPENSATION & BENEFITS Base salary: $160,000 to $300,000 annually. Visa sponsorship is available. LOCATION On-site in San Francisco, California, United States. #J-18808-Ljbffr true-talent-solutions-partners