Senior Software Applied AI Engineer

Hacker One is a global leader in Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM). The Hacker One Platform unites agentic AI solutions with the ingenuity of the world's largest community of security researchers to continuously discover, validate, prioritize, and remediate exposures across code, cloud, and AI systems. Through solutions like bug bounty, vulnerability disclosure, agentic pen testing, AI red teaming, and code security, Hacker One delivers measurable, continuous reduction of cyber risk for enterprises.

Industry leaders, including Anthropic, , General Motors, Goldman Sachs, Lufthansa, Uber, UK Ministry of Defence, and the U.S. Department of Defense, trust Hacker One to safeguard their digital ecosystems. Hacker One was recognized in Gartner's Emerging Tech Impact Radar: AI Cybersecurity Ecosystem report for its leadership in AI Security Testing and has been named a Most Loved Workplace for Young Professionals (2024).

Hacker One is at a pivotal inflection point in the security industry. Offensive security is no longer optional - it is the standard for forward-thinking companies that want to build trust and resilience in a world where AI-driven innovation and adversaries are moving faster than ever. With the industry shifting, Hacker One stands apart: we combine the ingenuity of the largest security research community with a best-in-class AI-powered platform, trusted by the world's top organizations.

Hacker One is dedicated to fostering a strong and inclusive culture. Hacker One is Customer Obsessed and prioritizes customer outcomes in our decisions and actions. We Default to Disclosure by operating with transparency and integrity, ensuring trust and accountability. Employees, researchers, customers, and partners Win Together by fostering empowerment, inclusion, respect, and accountability.

Location:

Seattle, WA or Austin, TX

At Hacker One, we’re revolutionizing offensive security by combining human intelligence with artificial intelligence to help organizations build a safer internet. As a Senior Software Engineer on our AI Platform team, you will contribute directly to the development of our next-generation AI security capabilities, including our in-platform AI security agent,
Hai
. You will help develop AI-powered features that enhance vulnerability discovery, improve security analysis workflows, and expand how thousands of customers detect and respond to emerging threats.

At Hacker One, we embrace a Flexible Work approach that gives us the freedom to do our best work while also fostering the connections and community that make us stronger. Reflecting this philosophy, this is a role targeted for candidates within ~50 miles of Seattle, WA or Austin, TX
. We believe this balance of proximity and flexibility gives Hackeronies the chance to occasionally come together - fostering collaboration, connection, and in-person moments that enrich our culture - while still preserving the benefits of remote work. Must be able and willing to come to the office once per week (typically Thursdays).

• Contribute to evolving our AI security agent Hai
  , implementing features that enable natural language security insights, improved reasoning, and secure action workflows.

• Build components and services that integrate Agentic AI design patterns like AI Orchestration, Memory systems, RAG, Long horizon tasks, LLM-based models into the Hacker One platform, applying an AI-First approach to enhance vulnerability detection and security automation.

• Implement features for AI red teaming agents and evaluation tools that help identify risks in LLMs and applied AI systems, supporting safer model development.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Security Research, and Customer Success to translate customer needs into clear engineering requirements and deliverables.

• Develop and integrate APIs that enable secure interactions between AI models, internal services, and third-party systems, adjusting quickly as requirements evolve with Change Agility
  .

• Use metrics, evaluation data, and telemetry to validate model behavior and improve system…