OSINT Software Engineer — Data Acquisition & Reverse Engineering

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

Your mission is to expand our intelligence coverage through engineering research, reverse engineering and new collection techniques.

Anon AI Labs, the company behind Serus. Location: San Francisco / New York. Exceptional candidates elsewhere considered.

About us

Anon AI Labs builds Serus, a personal AI product for privacy, intelligence and protection. Our OSINT engine supports both our consumer product and business customers.

We want to keep expanding what that engine can discover. We’re hiring a skilled developer who enjoys finding new sources and figuring out how to obtain useful information from them.

The role

You will investigate how sources work, discover information that existing tools miss and build methods to collect it reliably. You will then implement those capabilities in our engine alongside the OSINT and backend teams.

This is a hands-on software engineering role. Much of the research involves understanding systems, experimenting with techniques and writing code.

What you’ll do

• 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.

What we’re looking for

• Curiosity about how systems work and persistence when the obvious approach fails.
• The ability to move from an unfamiliar source to a working implementation.
• Good judgment about data quality and the usefulness of the information collected.
• Open-source tools, unusual technical projects and independently developed collection methods are especially interesting to us.