Senior AI Engineer

Socket.dev; Baltimore (MD); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

Health with FSA & HSA

Dental & Vision Insurance

401(K)

Flexible PTO

Hybrid and remote work

Team off-sites

Job summary

Pixee is hiring a Senior AI Engineer in Baltimore, MD to build agents that read enterprise codebases, propose changes, verify them, and merge confidently. You’ll work in Python, create AI-driven coding tools, and ensure security-aware decision making across thousands of repositories.

You’ll own evaluation frameworks, cost, and reliability in production. The role involves in-person collaboration two days weekly and mentoring teammates while pairing with customers to integrate Pixee into existing

Qualifications

• 5+ years building production software with Python expertise.
• Experience building agentic workflows and tooling used in production.
• Ability to measure and report system performance and accuracy.
• Knowledge of security concepts including OWASP Top 10.
• Ability to read and understand codebases written by others.

Responsibilities

• Build applications using AI coding agents to trace execution paths and propose fixes.
• Convert raw findings into executable changes that developers merge.
• Define what an agent needs to know and prepare inputs at the right time.
• Develop evals and metrics to measure merge rates on real repositories.
• Own performance, cost, and reliability of production systems across many repos.
• Collaborate with customers to configure and integrate Pixee into workflows.
• Mentor engineers and raise quality through code review.

Skills

Python

Agentic workflows

Context engineering

OWASP Top 10 knowledge

Reading unfamiliar code

Mentoring

Strong collaboration

Tools

Semgrep

CodeQL

Sonar

Snyk

Job description

Senior AI Engineer

Baltimore, MD — 2 days in office · Reports to the VP of Engineering

Code stopped being the bottleneck. Trust became one.

Enterprises now generate more code than their security teams can review, and the backlog compounds every quarter. Pixee builds the harness for security engineering. The layer that catches risk at design, clears backlogs at machine speed, and validates every change before it merges. Dashboards don't reduce risk. Triaged findings and merged pull requests do.

We're hiring a Senior AI Engineer to build the agents that do that work. You'll sit on the AI side of the house and both read and write a lot of Python. You'll build applications on top of AI coding agents that read enterprise codebases, propose real changes, verify them, and prove they're right often enough to merge.

What You’ll Do

• Build with agents, not just models. Ship applications where AI coding agents do the work of tracing execution paths, proposing fixes, opening pull requests. You own the tools, scaffolding, and control flow that make them reliable.

• Move from detection to decision. Turn raw findings into exploit-aware judgments, and turn those judgments into changes a developer merges without arguing.

• Make the context graph earn its keep. Decide what an agent needs to know (call graphs, execution paths, prior fixes, institutional history) and get it in front of the model at the moment it matters.

• Prove it. Build and extend the evals that gate our work. Nothing ships on a good demo. It ships on a measured merge rate against real repositories.

• Run it in production. Own the performance, cost, and reliability of systems running continuously across thousands of enterprise repositories.

• Pair with customers. Work with customers and prospects to setup, configure, and integrate Pixee into their workflows and infrastructure

• Raise the floor. Review thoughtfully, write code others can pick up, and mentor the engineers around you.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years building production software, with deep Python expertise.

• Real experience building agentic workflows, tool design, context engineering. You've shipped something people depend on, not just prototyped.

• Evidence that you measure your own work. You've built benchmarks, you know your system's failure modes, and you can state its accuracy without guessing.

• Enough application security literacy to reason about the OWASP Top 10, why static analysis produces the false positives it does, and what makes a fix correct rather than merely green.

• Comfort reading code you didn't write, in languages you don't primarily work in.

• The ability to own a problem end to end and bring other engineers with you.

• Based in the Baltimore, MD area, with the ability to be in office two days a week (typically Mondays and Wednesdays).

Nice-to-Have

• Static analysis internals — AST manipulation, dataflow analysis, or writing codemods.

• Integration experience with the scanner ecosystem (Semgrep, CodeQL, Sonar, Snyk).

• CI/CD and tooling that lives inside a developer's workflow.

• Contributions to open-source AI or security projects.

Why Join Pixee

• Automated resolution is not a nice to have. It is the only path forward for enterprises trying to ship AI-generated code securely at scale.

• Correctness is the product. Being wrong is expensive here, which makes the engineering harder and more interesting than most applied AI work.

• Founded by Arshan Dabirsiaghi and Surag Patel, and backed by top investors with $15M raised.

• A small team, a direct line to the VP of Engineering, and the scope to own a product outright.

What We Value

At Pixee, our mission is fueled by a strong foundation of values that guide how we show up, especially when it's hard and when no one's watching. We don't believe in values posted on walls; we believe in real values that show up in who we hire, promote, and how we make decisions.

Our core values are simple but powerful:

• Integrity — We do the right thing, even when it's uncomfortable.

• Respect — We value people, perspectives, and the process.

• Craftsmanship — We take pride in building excellent products and experiences.

• Long-Term Thinking — We play the long game, balancing fast wins with sustainable impact.

These principles drive our culture and connect us to the work we're doing every day.

Perks & Benefits

We're committed to supporting your health, growth, and work-life balance.

• Competitive salary

• Equity

• Health with FSA & HSA options, dental, and vision insurance

• 401(K)

• Flexible paid time off (not accrued) - we value a strong balance of joy at both work and in life

• Hybrid and remote work - Our employees near Baltimore come into the office Mondays and Wednesdays

• Quarterly team off-sites to build real human connection