Staff AI Software Engineer

Bishop Fox is the leading authority in offensive security providing solutions ranging from continuous penetration testing red teaming and attack surface management to product cloud and application security assessments. Weve worked with more than a quarter of the Fortune 100 half of the Fortune 10 eight of the top 10 global technology companies and all of the top global media companies. Our managed service platform service innovation and culture of excellence continue to gather accolades from industry award programs including Fast Company Inc. SC Media and others. For more than 16 years weve been contributing and giving back to the security community. Weve published more than 16 open source tools and 50 security advisories in the last five years alone. Learn more at or follow us on social media.

Who You Are

You are an experienced AI engineer who thrives on building real systems thatoperatein messy unpredictable environments. You care deeply about reliability evaluation and scalenot just whether something works once but whether it works consistently in production.

Your mission Build autonomous AI agents thatidentifygenuine vulnerabilities in production applications capable of thinking adapting and hacking like the worlds top penetration testers.

What You Will Do

Pioneer AI-Driven Security Testing

• Design and build intelligent autonomous security testing agents using large language models andcutting-edgeAI/ML techniques

• Create systems that can autonomously perform reconnaissanceidentifyvulnerabilities and execute sophisticated attack chains

• Push the boundaries of whats possible when artificial intelligence meets offensive security

• Build robust planning tool-use and failure-handling mechanisms for agentsoperatingin real-world unpredictable applications

RevolutionizePen testingat Scale

• Develop services that think and act like elite attackers butoperate24/7 across thousands of targets

• Transform manual testing processes into intelligent scalable automation pipelines

• Build systems that continuously evolve and improve their attack strategies

• Implement long-running agent memory and context management so agentsretainstate avoid redundant actions and accumulate application knowledge

Integrate with Enterprise-Grade Infrastructure

• Connect your AI agents into Bishop Foxs Cosmos cloud platform

• Scale your creations to serve Fortune 100 clients with enterprise-level reliability

• Design architectures that can handle massive concurrent testing operations

• Develop browser and application interaction infrastructure that enables agents to navigate interact with and test modern web applications

Experiment & Innovate Rapidly

• Prototype breakthrough approaches to AI-driven security testing

• Build sophisticated feedback loops that make your agents smarter over time

• Implement safety mechanisms and ethical guardrails for responsible AI deployment

• Measure iterate and continuously enhance agent performance

• Design evaluation and monitoring systems that distinguish real vulnerabilities from false positives or hallucinated findings

Collaborate with Elite Security Minds

• Work directly with world-class penetration testers and security researchers

• Partner with data scientists and AI specialists to solve novel technical challenges

• Contribute to a team culture where hackingexpertisemeetscutting-edgeartificial intelligence

• Apply real-world production feedback from customer environments to refine agent behavior and system reliability

Your Experience

• 8 years of software engineering experience with a track record of shipping production systems

• Deep AI/MLexpertise hands-on experience with LLMs agent frameworks (LangChainAutoGPTCrewAI) or autonomous AI systems

• Advanced programming skills in Python and Golang with clean scalable code practices

• Full-stack capabilities comfortable building robust APIs designing database schemas and working with modern frontend frameworks (React/TypeScript experience valued)

• Practical experience designing evaluating and improving agent reliability including handling failures edge cases and non-deterministic behavior

• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS GCP or Azure) and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)

• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices for reliable deployments

• Ability to architect systems that can scale from prototype to enterprise-grade solutions

• Must be based in the San Francisco Bay Area; remote-first with occasional ad hoc in-office meetings only when necessary.

The Right Mindset

• Portfolio over pedigree we care more about whatyouvebuilt than where you learned it

• Excitement about autonomous systems and AI agents that canoperateindependently

• Comfort with ambiguity and rapid iteration in a fast-moving environment

• Strong judgment in choosing the right tools models and architectural approaches for real-world constraints

Bonus Multipliers

• Experience in penetration testing red teaming ethical hacking or security research

• Understanding of common vulnerabilities attack vectors and security frameworks

• Knowledge of security tools and methodologies (butwellteach you what youdontknow!)

• Open-source contributions especially in AI/automation or security domains

• Hackathon victories or compelling side projects thatdemonstrateyour creativity

• Experience in startup environments or greenfield product development

• Publications talks or thought leadership in AI or security communities

• Familiarity with multi-agent systems reinforcement learning or swarm intelligence

• Experience with vector databases RAG pipelines or advanced prompt engineering
• Understanding of AI safety alignment and responsible AI development practices

Our Values

We strive to live by our values every day in support of our core tenets which are to deliver the highest quality of work for our clients quality of life for our team and quality of business for our industry and our future.

• Be Excellent to Each Other

• Do the Right Thing

• Do WhatYoullSayYoullDo

• Get Better Together

• Give aSh*t

We offer a variety of benefits andperks such as:

• Generous Time Off and Company-Wide Holidays

• Health Insurance options including Medical Dental Vision

• Retirement; 401k matching for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US

• Work From Home Support

• Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet

• Training Budget

• Paid Parental Leave

Bishop Fox is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex including sexual orientation and gender identity national origin disability protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local new hires must pass a background check as a condition of employment.

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