Software Engineer — AI-Native Engineering (XTM Foundation)

Filigran; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Filigran, founded in 2022, seeks a Senior Software Engineer to drive our AI-Native engineering strategy within the XTM Foundation team. You will be hands-on, run experiments with AI coding tools, and propagate best practices across engineering groups.

Work with ~80 engineers, embed AI in day-to-day workflows, build guardrails, share results publicly, and help scale AI-enabled capabilities across the OpenCTI/OpenGRC product teams.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software engineering experience, strong code quality.
• AI-first mindset with practical experience in deploying AI in engineering.
• Ability to lead experiments and translate results into practice.

Responsibilities

• Define and own Filigran's AI-Native engineering strategy and practices.
• Run structured experiments evaluating AI coding tools and agents; measure impact.
• Build guardrails and standards to ensure maintainable, tested AI-generated code.
• Collaborate with product teams (~80 engineers) to embed AI in workflows.
• Share learnings through talks, demos, and internal knowledge sharing.
• Stay ahead of the AI tooling landscape and filter noise for teams.

Skills

Software engineering

AI-first mindset

Experimentation

Tools

Cursor

GitHub Copilot

Cline

MCP servers

Code generation agents

Job description

Описание:

The Company Founded in 2022, Filigran is a global cybersecurity company on a mission to empower defense teams to be proactive through open-source solutions that uncover threats and drive action. Filigran stands out in the cybersecurity ecosystem through its open-source, AI-powered and threat-informed approach to Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM). Our eXtended Threat Management (XTM) platform brings together threat intelligence, exposure validation and cyber risk reduction, enabling organizations to better understand their threat landscape and take action. At the heart of Filigran is our open-source approach. Our vision is to unite defenders into a global community to make security more open, resilient and collaborative. As Filigran continues to scale globally, we are building the organization, infrastructure and capabilities needed for our next stage of growth. How we scale matters just as much as how fast we scale: our CORE values: Cohesion, Openness, Responsibility and Equity shape how we work together, make decisions and build for the future. We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer who is genuinely, deeply convinced that AI is transforming the way software gets built, and who wants to make that transformation happen at Filigran. We are looking for an engineer first. This isn't a 'we bought Copilot, please roll it out' role, and it isn't only a tooling or development role either: part of the job is building, part of it is trying things on real work, measuring them and telling teams honestly what works and what doesn't. This is a practitioner role for someone who has already lived this shift, who experiments constantly, who knows what works and what doesn't, and who can bring 60 engineers along on that journey. You will join the XTM Foundation team as Filigran's internal reference on AI-Native engineering. You'll propose our approach, build our practices, run experiments, and share the results so that teams can change how they work with confidence. You'll be hands-on, opinionated, and always one step ahead.

Задачи:

• Define and own Filigran's AI-Native engineering strategy: which tools, which workflows, which practices, and how they evolve as the landscape moves fast.
• Run structured experiments to evaluate new AI coding tools and agents (Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Cline, MCP servers, code generation agents…), measure their real impact on velocity and quality, and translate findings into actionable recommendations.
• Build the guardrails and engineering standards that ensure AI-generated code is maintainable, tested, and consistent with our quality bar — not just fast to produce.
• Work directly with product engineering teams (~80 engineers) to embed AI practices into their day-to-day workflows: pair programming with AI, AI-assisted code review, test generation, documentation, and beyond.
• Share what you learn.
• Run internal talks, workshops, and demos.
• Be the person engineers come to when they want to understand what's possible, and what isn't.
• Show real results, including the failures.
• Stay permanently ahead of the curve — the AI tooling landscape moves weekly.
• You'll be the one tracking it, filtering the noise, and surfacing what actually matters for a team like ours.
• Work in the XTM Foundation team to turn AI practices into shared building blocks for every product team: agent workflows in our CI pipelines (dependency updates, flaky test triage, review assistance), shared MCP servers and prompt libraries, versioned AI configuration in the repositories, and written rules on tools and data handling that apply to everyone.
• Contribute to Filigran's external voice on AI-Native engineering — blog posts, open-source contributions, conference talks — as the opportunity arises.
• Reports to: Principal Engineer of XTM Foundation team.
• Key collaborators: Engineers and Engineering Managers across OpenCTI, OpenAEV, and OpenGRC product teams; VP of Technology; CTO.
• Working model: You will split your time between XTM Foundation team work (research, experimentation, standards) and direct collaboration with product teams to embed AI practices in real engineering workflows.

Profile We’re Looking For

• 7+ years of software engineering experience — you are a strong engineer first. You understand what good code looks like, and that's what makes your judgment on AI credible.
• You are genuinely AI-first in