AI Engineer (Offensive Security)

Stack

Responsibilities

• ▹Design and build autonomous hacking agents that carry out multi-step offensive workflows end to end, with a reliable and reusable architecture
• ▹Build backend and interfaces (APIs, services, UIs) that turn raw agent capability into tools consultants can use independently
• ▹Evaluation and benchmarking: build realistic target labs and eval harnesses, plus validation logic that confirms exploits and reduces false positives
• ▹Build Gen-AI features for consultants, such as chatbot interfaces, text-generation tools and strategy ideation features
• ▹Applied AI research, separating what is genuinely useful from what is hype

Requirements

• ▹Strong production engineering experience: high-quality code and reliable applications across at least a portion of the tech stack
• ▹Writing testable and maintainable software, designing systems end to end, CI/CD, deploying services, debugging production issues
• ▹Hands-on experience building agentic workflows or LLM-based systems (tool use, multi-step reasoning, orchestration, evaluation or automation)
• ▹Deep thinking about how agents fail and how to measure performance
• ▹Ownership, judgement and clear communication

Soft skills

What we offer

• ▹True remote flexibility, work from anywhere
• ▹Unlimited training budget
• ▹Unlimited vacation
• ▹Private medical insurance and pension scheme
• ▹Conference speaking bonuses
• ▹Regular research time
• ▹In-person offsite about once per quarter

About the company

CovertSwarm works in offensive security and is building a small, new team in a culture of low ego, high trust and constant learning.