AI Agent Security Engineer (Threat Testing & Safeguards)

CodeIntegrity, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive package

Equity included

Paid vacation

Sick leave

Parental leave

Conference budget

MacBook provided

Medical/dental/vision coverage

401(k) plan

Job summary

CodeIntegrity, Inc. is seeking a security-focused role to identify weaknesses in AI agents, tools, and data, and translate findings into safeguards. You will perform threat analysis, hands-on testing, product reviews, and collaborate with engineers to improve agent safety.

You will reproduce attacks, build detections and policies, and help measure security effectiveness across systems. This position offers hands-on impact in production AI environments and opportunities for growth.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience finding and fixing application, API, or cloud security weaknesses.
• Ability to read production code and write tools or tests to investigate vulnerabilities.
• Understanding of authentication, authorization, trust boundaries, and sensitive data exposure.
• Ability to assess security findings and explain practical remediation to engineers.
• Willingness to learn how agents use tools and data, test assumptions, and measure safeguards.

Responsibilities

• Trace how instructions, identities, permissions, and data move between agents, tools, and servers.
• Reproduce attacks such as prompt injection, data exposure, authorization failures, and unsafe tool use with repeatable test cases.
• Build and evaluate detections, access policies, and execution isolation with software engineers.
• Measure blocked and missed attacks, as well as false positives, to assess control effectiveness.
• Review designs and code, communicate findings and remediation options, and verify fixes.
• Convert security findings into automated evaluations and regression tests, documenting control limitations.

Skills

Security testing

Code reading

Authn/Authz security

Vulnerability investigation

Job description

CodeIntegrity, Inc. is seeking a security-focused role to identify weaknesses in AI agents, tools, and data, and translate findings into safeguards. You will perform threat analysis, hands-on testing, product reviews, and collaborate with engineers to improve agent safety.

You will reproduce attacks, build detections and policies, and help measure security effectiveness across systems. This position offers hands-on impact in production AI environments and opportunities for growth.