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AI Engineer (Offensive Security)
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · EU
Experience
3 years
Job description
AI Engineer building agentic workflows and LLM-powered systems for real ethical hacking, working alongside security consultants. The role is greenfield engineering focused on reliable, observable, evaluated AI systems for offensive security.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · EU
What you'll do
- Design and build the architecture for autonomous hacking agents that carry out multi-step offensive workflows end to end, making them reliable and reusable
- Build backend and interfaces that surface these agents to consultants: APIs, services, and UIs that turn raw agent capability into tools consultants can use independently
- Build evaluation and benchmarking, including realistic target labs and eval harnesses to measure agent performance, and 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
- Conduct applied AI research, separating what's genuinely useful from what's hype
What we're looking for
- Strong production engineering experience writing high-quality production code and building reliable applications across at least a portion of the tech stack
- Writing testable and maintainable software, designing systems end to end, working with CI/CD, deploying services, debugging production issues, and making sensible engineering trade-offs
- Hands-on experience building agentic workflows or LLM-based systems involving tool use, multi-step reasoning, orchestration, evaluation, or automation
- Thought deeply about how agents fail, how to measure performance, and how to move beyond impressive demos into reliable systems
- Ownership, judgement, and clear communication: take a rough idea, shape the approach, make good technical decisions, build and ship the system, and iterate based on feedback
- Comfortable building production-quality systems and learning quickly
Benefits
- True remote flexibility - work from anywhere
- Unlimited training to keep your skills sharp
- Unlimited vacation
- Private medical insurance and pension scheme
- Conference speaking bonuses
- A culture of radical candor, continuous improvement and technical excellence
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About CovertSwarm
CovertSwarm pushes the boundaries of offensive security with a team of passionate and humble professionals who value creativity, technical depth and delivering results that matter.
Mission
To redefine offensive security
Key facts
- offensive security
- Building agentic workflows for real ethical hacking
- Culture of low ego, high trust and constant learning
- Team gathers in person around once per quarter for offsites
What they value
- Radical candor
- Continuous improvement
- Technical excellence
- Creativity
- Technical depth
- Low ego
- High trust
- Constant learning