Head of AI Security & Attack Simulation

Jobot; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% Remote within the U.S.

Work at AI + cybersecurity frontier

Mentor senior engineers

401(k)

Flexible/unlimited PTO

Learning & development funding

Home-office stipend

Job summary

Jobot is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to own the technical direction and execution of an AI attack simulation platform. Translate adversarial AI research into scalable security-testing capabilities, while mentoring engineers and collaborating with Product and Security Research.

You will remain hands-on in architecture, prototyping, and implementation, shaping strategy and product outcomes in a remote, high-growth setting.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Strong backend and distributed systems engineering background.
• Production experience building AI or agentic systems.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures.

Responsibilities

• Own architecture and technical direction for AI attack-simulation technology
• Build scalable systems that translate adversarial AI techniques into production security capabilities
• Design agentic workflows, tool integrations, execution systems, guardrails, and evaluation frameworks
• Partner with Product Management and Security Research on strategy and roadmap development
• Develop AI-first engineering workflows across research, prototyping, implementation, testing, and release
• Remain hands-on with critical architecture and complex engineering challenges
• Lead technical reviews and establish engineering best practices
• Improve reliability, security, observability, and overall product quality
• Mentor engineers and help develop senior technical talent
• Help engineers take greater ownership of customer problems and product outcomes

Skills

Go / Golang

Distributed systems

Backend development

Cloud-native architectures

AI / agentic systems

Mentorship

Product mindset

Python

Rust

Java

TypeScript

Job description

Jobot is seeking a hands-on engineering leader to own the technical direction and execution of an AI attack simulation platform. Translate adversarial AI research into scalable security-testing capabilities, while mentoring engineers and collaborating with Product and Security Research.

You will remain hands-on in architecture, prototyping, and implementation, shaping strategy and product outcomes in a remote, high-growth setting.