Founding Engineer

What You’ll Do

Join a team of 5 engineers building at the cutting edge of AI and cyber security. Specular empowers organizations across private, public, and government sectors to proactively identify, assess, and remediate cyber security vulnerabilities to protect themselves from e-crime and nation-state cyber attacks. You'll have autonomy and direct influence over product direction and strategy. You'll focus predominantly on the backend and heavily contribute to building AI agents that automate traditional human-driven security analyst workflows. A few more specific examples are below:

• Design and implement an AWS-native platform for complex proactive and offensive security analysis workflows.
• Design and implement scalable, serverless infrastructure using AWS services (e.g., Fargate, Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB).
• Develop RESTful APIs that allow customers too seamlessly interact with our data.
• Build workflows to utilize and refine AI models for proactive security tasks using modern LLM frameworks such as Agno, LangGraph/Langchain, LlamaIndex, etc.
• While an emphasis will be placed on back-end development, you'll directly coordinate with frontend engineers to build a cohesive user experience.
• Interact directly with customers to gather requirements and iterate on features.

Required Experience

Skills that we think are necessary to succeed in the role:

• 4+ years of software engineering experience‍
• Python: Proficient in Python for backend development.‍
• Cloud Experience: Deep understanding of AWS, with bonus points for familiarity with other cloud providers (e.g., Azure, GCP)
• IaC: Experience with Terraform or a desire to learn. Ability ‍to create modular reusable infrastructure components that are adaptable to different customer needs and security requirements.‍
• API Development: Strong experience designing and building robust, well-documented APIs. Proficient with modern Python frameworks such as Django, Flask, or FastAPI.
• Ability to design services that can be deployed across varying customer environments, including on-prem, hybrid, or cloud-native infrastructure.

Bonus Points Experience

Skills that are "nice to have" but not a requirement:

• Cybersecurity:
  
  • Experience as a Red Teamer, Penetration Tester, Security Engineer, or Vulnerability Analyst
  • Experience building cyber security products or working directly with enterprise security teams
• AI / LLM:  Experience with LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, or fine-tuning models.
• Big Data: Hands-on experience with large-scale data and processing and analytics platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, or Splunk.
• ‍JavaScript: Proficient in JavaScript, with good experience in React.

Compensation

The base salary range for this position in the U.S. is $175,000 - $225,000 per year + equity + benefits.

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