AI Security Engineer — Offensive Systems & Exploitation

Zealot; United States; On-site; USD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive cash

Meaningful early equity

Solving hard problems

Job summary

Zealot is seeking an AI Systems Engineer to develop emulation interfaces for agents, focusing on systems programming and binary analysis. Ideal candidates should have experience with C/C++, Rust, and various emulation stacks. U.S. citizenship with TS/SCI clearance eligibility is required. Zealot offers competitive compensation and significant equity, working on challenging problems with a meaningful mission.

Qualifications

• 2–3+ years of experience in systems programming and ML infrastructure.
• Proven comfort with binary analysis and memory corruption.
• Hands-on experience with agent harnesses at scale.

Responsibilities

• Build emulation interfaces for agents to reason over.
• Wire instrumentation and fuzzing into tool interfaces.
• Evaluate and benchmark infrastructure.

Skills

Systems programming (C/C++, Rust)

Binary analysis and memory corruption

Agent harnesses orchestration

Emulation stacks (QEMU, Unicorn, etc.)

Reverse engineering (GDB, IDA, Ghidra)

Job description

Zealot is seeking an AI Systems Engineer to develop emulation interfaces for agents, focusing on systems programming and binary analysis. Ideal candidates should have experience with C/C++, Rust, and various emulation stacks. U.S. citizenship with TS/SCI clearance eligibility is required. Zealot offers competitive compensation and significant equity, working on challenging problems with a meaningful mission.