Frontline Security Research Engineer Open Source & Pentests

PensarAI, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful equity

Professional development budget

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Opportunity to publish research

Job summary

PensarAI, Inc. is seeking a Security Research Engineer to operate as a hybrid Forward Deployed Engineer and offensive security researcher. You\'ll run pentests with Apex, curate findings, and stand up our platform inside customer environments while feeding field learnings back into the product.

The role is customer-facing by design, spanning technical deep-dives with CISOs to product reviews, open source security research, and roadmap input to make pentesting faster and more reliable.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in offensive security, pentesting, red teaming, or vulnerability research.
• Strong programming skills in multiple languages (Python, Go, JavaScript, C/C++).
• Deep, hands-on understanding of modern vulnerability classes across web, cloud, and infrastructure.
• Proven track record of running pentest engagements end-to-end and delivering findings to customers.
• Excellent customer-facing communication skills — comfortable presenting to both engineers and executives.
• Experience contributing to or maintaining open source security tooling.

Responsibilities

• Run end-to-end pentest engagements for customers using Apex, our open source offensive security tool.
• Curate, triage, and contextualize findings for customer audiences ranging from engineers to executives.
• Deliver clear, prioritized write-ups and walk customers through results, exploitation paths, and remediation.
• Set up and configure the Pensar platform inside customer environments, including integrations and workflows.
• Act as a trusted technical partner for customers throughout onboarding, engagements, and ongoing usage.
• Travel to customer sites as needed for kickoffs, readouts, and on-site testing.

Skills

Python

Go

JavaScript

C/C++

Offensive security

Pentesting

Open source tooling

Customer-facing communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field

Tools

Apex tool

Open source tooling

Job description

PensarAI, Inc. is seeking a Security Research Engineer to operate as a hybrid Forward Deployed Engineer and offensive security researcher. You\'ll run pentests with Apex, curate findings, and stand up our platform inside customer environments while feeding field learnings back into the product.

The role is customer-facing by design, spanning technical deep-dives with CISOs to product reviews, open source security research, and roadmap input to make pentesting faster and more reliable.