Autonomous Pentest Engineer: LLM-Driven Agent Orchestration

Horizon3; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Growth Opportunities

Innovation-Driven Culture

Flexible Work Environment

Inclusive and Diverse Team

Job summary

Horizon3 is seeking an engineer to build an autonomous web application penetration tester. This role focuses on evolving the attack-agent layer capable of probing production sites like a human. Responsibilities include managing LLM inference in production while ensuring safety and efficiency.

The ideal candidate possesses strong experience in LLM-powered applications and web security knowledge, equipped to tackle complex production challenges. Join us for growth opportunities in a dynamic and innovative environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production software, with strong Python.
• Experience building eval harnesses or benchmarks specifically for agents.
• Real experience with evaluation and ownership mentality.

Responsibilities

• Build an autonomous pen-testing agent capable of probing and exploiting vulnerabilities.
• Translate offensive expertise into repeatable agent capabilities.
• Manage LLM inference in production maintaining safety and reliability.

Skills

Prompt and context engineering

LLM-powered applications

Software fundamentals

Web application security knowledge

Benchmarking and evaluation

Agent frameworks

Job description

Horizon3 is seeking an engineer to build an autonomous web application penetration tester. This role focuses on evolving the attack-agent layer capable of probing production sites like a human. Responsibilities include managing LLM inference in production while ensuring safety and efficiency.

The ideal candidate possesses strong experience in LLM-powered applications and web security knowledge, equipped to tackle complex production challenges. Join us for growth opportunities in a dynamic and innovative environment.