OSINT Software Engineer: Data Acquisition & Reverse Eng

Serus; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Anon AI Labs, the company behind Serus, seeks a hands-on software engineer to expand our intelligence engine. You will explore how sources work, design new collection methods and implement them with the OSINT and backend teams.

This role focuses on researching, coding, experimentation and translating successful techniques into production features as sources evolve and new challenges arise.

Qualifications

• Curiosity about how systems work and persistence when the obvious approach fails.
• Ability to move from an unfamiliar source to a working implementation.
• Good judgment about data quality and usefulness of collected information.

Responsibilities

• Discover valuable new intelligence sources and identify gaps in our coverage.
• Develop new approaches to data collection and extraction.
• Build prototypes to test whether a source or technique produces useful results.
• Evaluate coverage, accuracy, freshness, collection cost and reliability.
• Turn successful experiments into production integrations.
• Maintain collection methods as sources change.
• Collaborate with backend engineers on processing, normalization and delivery.

Skills

Source discovery

Prototyping

Data extraction

Backend collaboration

Tools

Open-source tools

Job description

Anon AI Labs, the company behind Serus, seeks a hands-on software engineer to expand our intelligence engine. You will explore how sources work, design new collection methods and implement them with the OSINT and backend teams.

This role focuses on researching, coding, experimentation and translating successful techniques into production features as sources evolve and new challenges arise.