Lead AI Security Engineer – Attack Simulation, Remote

Jobot; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% Remote (US)

401(k)

Flexible/unlimited PTO

Learning and development funding

Home-office stipend

Internet stipend

Phone stipend

Comprehensive health benefits

Job summary

Jobot is hiring a hands-on Lead Engineer to own the technical direction of an AI attack-simulation platform. You will translate adversarial AI research into scalable security-testing capabilities and guide roadmap decisions with Product and Security Research.

You will remain deeply involved in architecture, prototyping, and implementation while mentoring engineers and driving best practices across the team.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Significant technical leadership experience with complex production systems.
• Strong backend and distributed systems engineering background.
• Deep experience with cloud-native architectures.
• Production experience building AI or agentic systems.
• Experience with tool use, orchestration, state management, guardrails, and AI evaluation.
• Strong Go/Golang development experience and proficiency in Python/JS/Java/TypeScript.

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

Leadership

Go (Golang)

Distributed systems

AI security

Product mindset

Mentoring

Python

Architecture

Tools

OpenAI Agents SDK

LangGraph

AutoGen

Agent orchestration

Job description

Jobot is hiring a hands-on Lead Engineer to own the technical direction of an AI attack-simulation platform. You will translate adversarial AI research into scalable security-testing capabilities and guide roadmap decisions with Product and Security Research.

You will remain deeply involved in architecture, prototyping, and implementation while mentoring engineers and driving best practices across the team.