Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. HiddenLayer is seeking a hands-on Lead Engineer, AI Attack Simulation to own the technical direction and execution of their attack simulation product. The role involves leading the architecture and development of systems for security testing capabilities, partnering with Product Management and Security Research, and mentoring engineers.
Responsibilities
- Own the technical direction, architecture, and execution of HiddenLayer’s AI Attack Simulation product
- Partner with Product and Security Research to define product strategy, understand customer outcomes, shape the roadmap, and translate adversarial AI techniques into safe, scalable product capabilities
- Design and build agentic workflows, tool integrations, execution systems, guardrails, and evaluation frameworks
- Establish an AI-first product development workflow that uses AI across discovery, customer and market research, solution design, prototyping, implementation, validation, release, and continuous improvement
- Ensure engineers understand the customer problem and intended outcome, contribute to product decisions, and take ownership beyond ticket execution
- Remain hands-on with critical architecture, prototyping, implementation, and complex technical problem-solving
- Mentor engineers, lead technical reviews, support hiring, and raise standards for reliability, security, observability, and product quality
Skills
- 10+ years of professional software engineering experience, including technical leadership of complex production systems
- Strong backend, distributed-systems, and cloud-native engineering experience
- Demonstrated experience building an AI-first product development workflow that involves engineers throughout product discovery, strategy, solution definition, implementation, validation, and outcome measurement
- A track record of leading teams beyond ticket-based execution toward direct ownership of customer problems, product tradeoffs, and measurable outcomes
- Experience building production AI or agentic systems involving tool use, orchestration, structured outputs, state management, guardrails, and evaluation
- Cybersecurity product experience or closely related experience in offensive security, attack simulation, AI security, red teaming, penetration testing, or control validation
- Strong proficiency in Go and experience with at least one additional production language such as Python, Rust, Java, or TypeScript
- Strong product judgment and experience partnering directly with Product Management
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, influence technical direction, and lead through ambiguity
- Experience with AI red teaming, adversarial machine learning, AI security evaluation, or autonomous security testing
- Direct experience with breach and attack simulation, adversary emulation, attack-path validation, or continuous security validation products
- Experience using AI to support product research, prototype evaluation, customer-feedback synthesis, implementation, testing, and release decisions
- Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK and/or ATLAS and threat-informed defense
- Experience with agent orchestration technologies such as OpenAI Agents SDK, LangGraph, AutoGen, or equivalent custom systems
- Experience developing evaluation datasets, graders, traces, and regression frameworks for AI systems
- Experience building secure sandboxes or constrained environments for executing potentially risky actions
- Experience delivering enterprise, self-hosted, air-gapped, or regulated software
- Previous responsibility for hiring and developing senior engineers
Benefits
- Remote [within the US]
- Fully Remote: completely remote global team
- Getting the team together a couple of times a year
- Generous stipend for your home office setup
- Annual upgrades to ensure you have a comfortable workspace
- Monthly stipend for internet/phone expenses
- Comprehensive Health & Wellness Benefits
- Five health plan options to choose from, of which are fully subsidized by HiddenLayer
- Vision coverage
- Dental coverage
- 401k offerings
- Unlimited and flexible time off for all salaried employees
- 15 paid company holidays
- Dedicated L&D fund that can be used for training, conferences, certifications and industry events
- Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (equal opportunity employer)
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