Founding AI Security Research Lead

Asymptote Labs; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary range

Founder equity

Job summary

Asymptote is seeking a Founding Security Research Lead to shape the future of AI agent security. You will define attack surface exploration, build detections, and publish industry-leading research.

You will work closely with the founders to influence product roadmap, craft new security capabilities, and own research direction from day one. Equity and competitive compensation accompany this founder-level role.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in offensive security, security research, detection engineering, red teaming, or vulnerability research.
• Experience discovering, analyzing, or detecting sophisticated real-world attacks.
• Strong software engineering skills with the ability to rapidly build research tooling.
• Experience publishing original technical research, open-source projects, or conference talks.
• Deep curiosity and a habit of experimenting with new AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Investigate real-world attacks targeting AI agents and autonomous systems.
• Discover novel attack techniques across coding agents, MCPs, CI pipelines, cloud environments, and developer tooling.
• Reverse engineer emerging threats and publish technical analyses.
• Build proof-of-concept exploits that push the frontier of AI security.
• Turn offensive research into production-grade detections.
• Develop new detection methodologies for prompt injection, tool abuse, privilege escalation, credential theft, data exfiltration, and agent persistence.
• Build datasets and benchmarks that improve detection quality.
• Continuously expand Asymptote's detection library as the threat landscape evolves.

Skills

offensive security

security research

detection engineering

red teaming

vulnerability research

Job description

Asymptote is seeking a Founding Security Research Lead to shape the future of AI agent security. You will define attack surface exploration, build detections, and publish industry-leading research.

You will work closely with the founders to influence product roadmap, craft new security capabilities, and own research direction from day one. Equity and competitive compensation accompany this founder-level role.