Founding Engineer
London / New York / San Francisco
Full Time
About asymmetric
Asymmetric is the first AI-native Digital Forensics and Incident Response company. Our AI platform has helped incident responders handle hundreds of cyber attacks. Building on this experience, we're creating realistic training scenarios and evaluations to improve both our cyberdefense capabilities and those of frontier AI labs.
Our mission is to accelerate AI cyberdefense to address the security challenges of the AGI era.
We believe that automated digital forensics, i.e. deep security investigations, will become ubiquitous in a world with a abundant intelligence. Read more about our vision here: https://www.asymmetricsecurity.com/launch
About the role
Asymmetric has developed an MVP that automates email compromise investigations, established product market fit, and built a talent-dense team of cybersecurity incident responders.
We are now hiring a Founding Engineer to capitalize on demand. You will be an extension of the founding team, with very significant ownership and uncapped growth potential.
The work will be technically challenging and varied. For example, we need to:
Develop our MVP AI email compromise investigation platform into an agentic system capable of more kinds of investigations.
Build cyberdefense evaluations to measure how our AI systems are performing against the real cyber incidents we respond to.
Improve the latency and scalability of our investigation platform.
Illustrative responsibilities
Build AI systems to automate cybersecurity incident investigations.
Build evaluations to assess AI performance at cyberdefense tasks.
Play a leading role in technical development and make key architectural decisions.
Establish engineering best practices: set up automated testing, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring systems, and processes that maintain code quality and enable quick issue resolution.
Partner on product direction: work with our security and product leads on product direction.
Asymmetric has developed an MVP that automates email compromise investigations, established product market fit, and built a talent-dense team of cybersecurity incident responders.
You may be a fit if you:
Have built and shipped full-stack software products, leading both implementation and architecture.
Have experience deploying LLMs with technologies such as LangChain and RAG.
Can design and implement model evaluations.
Are comfortable with modern web tooling.
Bring hands-on experience creating CI/CD processes, automated testing frameworks, and monitoring and observability systems.
Thrive on close collaboration with users to iterate rapidly and deliver working software.
Are deeply motivated by our mission.
You’re encouraged to apply even if you don’t believe you meet every listed qualification.