AI Engineer (Cybersecurity)

TL;DR

AI Engineer (Pentesting): Designing and optimizing a fully autonomous AI pentesting agent, with an accent on core system logic, reasoning, decision paths, and execution flow. Focus on aligning the agent with real attacker workflows, improving vulnerability identification and exploitation, and ensuring reliable performance in complex offensive security tasks.

Location: Fully Remote (candidates must have existing work authorization as sponsorship is not provided)

Company

hirify.global is the fastest-growing online cyber security training platform with over 6 million users and is used by more than 1000 businesses.

What you will do

• Contribute to the development and optimisation of an autonomous AI pentesting agent.
• Build and maintain safe environments to run, test, and benchmark agent behaviours.
• Implement core agent capabilities such as reasoning, decision-making, planning, and tool orchestration.
• Assist in evaluating and comparing large language models (Claude, OpenAI models, Mistral, Llama, etc.) for agent tasks.
• Build UI components and dashboards using React and support browser automation workflows using Playwright for agent evaluation.
• Support continuous refinement of the agent through experimentation, observability, and lab testing.

Requirements

• 2+ years software development experience with strong Python skills.
• Experience building AI agents (LangChain, CrewAI, Strands SDK, etc.).
• Hands-on with agent design: reasoning, memory, tool orchestration, structured outputs.
• Prompt engineering, RAG, chain-of-thought, few-shot learning, agent evaluation.
• SQL/NoSQL databases and basic data modeling.
• Docker, AWS, cloud deployment, shell scripting.
• React for frontend/dashboards.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with OWASP Top 10.
• Model training and fine-tuning (LoRA, PEFT) with evaluation experience.
• Cyber security expertise: OWASP attacks, pentesting methodologies.
• Experience with hirify.global or other CTF platforms.
• Playwright for browser automation in agent workflows.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive salary.
• Equity in the AI pentesting venture.
• Early-stage role with real ownership and autonomy.

Hiring process

• Stage 1: Introductory call with hirify.global founder and AI agent team (30m).
• Stage 2: Technical exercise and live discussion about your past work building AI agents (1h).