Senior AI Security Research Engineer - Hybrid Paris Equity

Cyber StrategiX; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Significant equity (Stock Options/BSPC

Alan health insurance

Swile meal vouchers

EGYM Wellpass sport subscription

Budget for books and courses

Premium equipment

Open-source time

Present research at conferences (RSAC,

DEFCON, BSides, APIDays)

Job summary

Escape, a fast-growing leader in AI-powered cybersecurity, is seeking a Senior Research Engineer to join a security research team. You’ll champion innovation and ensure research translates into production solutions that power agentic scanning systems and a robust detection engine.

Based in Paris with a hybrid model, you will design distributed infrastructure on Kubernetes, integrate LLMs, and collaborate with engineers and researchers to deliver fast, reliable, and cost-efficient scans at scale.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of backend engineering, security research, or R&D in a product environment.

Responsibilities

• Agentic scanning systems: Build systems that autonomously explore applications and run complex testing strategies.

Skills

Backend engineering

Security research

Distributed systems

Python

Go

Kubernetes

Playwright

Tools

PostgreSQL

Kafka

GitLab CI

Terraform

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Escape, a fast-growing leader in AI-powered cybersecurity, is seeking a Senior Research Engineer to join a security research team. You’ll champion innovation and ensure research translates into production solutions that power agentic scanning systems and a robust detection engine.

Based in Paris with a hybrid model, you will design distributed infrastructure on Kubernetes, integrate LLMs, and collaborate with engineers and researchers to deliver fast, reliable, and cost-efficient scans at scale.