FullStack AI Engineer

Aspiron Search; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Aspiron Search is hiring an incident response engineer for the West Coast to join the growing team. This full-time role is ideally within commuting distance of Los Angeles or San Diego, working closely with founders and engineers to design and run bespoke simulated incidents and measure response efficacy.

The candidate should have hands-on cyber incident experience, familiarity with outage scenarios, and practical skills in Python, React, and AI workflows in startup environments.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with cyber incidents or outages and incident management.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced startup-like environment with ambiguity.

Skills

Python

React

AI experience

Autonomy/startup environment

Tools

Claude/Cursor

Job description

Traditional firms often buckle under the weight of a security compromise, whether it’s the delegation of responsibility for different areas of the attack, mitigating data loss and running services or simply providing comms to market, it’s either too slow, not comprehensive enough, or not well practiced despite having plans in place.

This is where my client steps in in terms of their incident response simulator. Hyper-customised, providing businesses with a fully scoped environment from which they can run live incidents and outages and measure the efficacy of how a business responds, reporting back on the good and the areas for improvement all within a simulated environment, preparing you for the unexpected down the line.

Thanks to strong investment, sustained growth, and an already impressive product, they’re now looking for an additional engineer to join their west‑coast team on a full‑time basis (ideally within commutable distance of LA or San Diego).

You’ll join as the 2nd engineer in a relatively tight‑knit team, working directly with the founders and engineer having a genuine say in what gets built, what you’ve experienced from other firms / responses, and how you’d look to replicate these in a live environment to provide a well‑measured and bespoke product to customers at different stages and within different industries.

With this, they’re looking for someone who has actually experienced first‑hand cyber‑type incidents and helped manage them. It doesn’t necessarily need to be a massive security breach, it could be an outage for example, but something which has caused genuine chaos meaning people across the business being pulled in to resolve it together.

Why I hear you ask?

Well, most AI systems can probably give a good/convincing simulation experience, but it takes someone who has been at the coalface to evaluate whether or not this actually plays out like this in reality, whether XYZ would be involved, where teams struggle and where they excel to ensure the programme is as robust and bespoke as possible.

To do this, they’re looking for engineers with experience across the following:

• Python – for their data and AI layer
• React – frontend
• Hands‑on AI experience – whether this is LangGraph/LangChain/FastAgent or something custom you’ve built.
• Most of their code is written in Claude/Cursor – so having adapted these into your day‑to‑day is essential
• Ideally you’ll also have come from an autonomous/start‑up like environment, by which I mean: wearing multiple hats, happy dealing with ambiguity, take initiative and don’t shy away from contributing (especially if you’ve got the experience to boot)

Process:

30‑min introductory call – panel interview with wider business – walk through of a personal project

N.B – this role cannot offer sponsorship / transfer at this time.