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Our adversarial red teaming, model evaluations, and intelligence collection enable engineering, safety, and security teams to stay ahead of evolving threats and deploy AI systems safely.\nThreat Investigation Engineer (Backend/Platform)\nRemote | 1-year Contract\nAbout the Role\nWe are seeking a Threat Investigation Engineer to build, improve, and support AI-powered systems used in high-stakes safety and threat investigations.\nThis is a hands-on software engineering role combining backend development, production troubleshooting, and platform reliability. You'll work closely with investigators and engineering teams to develop practical solutions, improve existing workflows, and ensure critical investigation systems operate reliably.\nThe ideal candidate is a strong Python engineer with experience building and maintaining production applications, troubleshooting complex systems, and integrating AI-powered capabilities. You should be comfortable navigating ambiguous technical challenges, working directly with end users, and taking ownership of solutions from initial problem definition through deployment and ongoing support.\nThis position includes participation in a rotating on-call schedule, including weekend and holiday coverage, to support critical investigation workflows.\nWhat You'll Do\nDesign, develop, test, and maintain backend services and AI-assisted applications that support threat investigation workflows.\nPartner directly with investigators to understand operational challenges, identify opportunities for improvement, and translate requirements into practical engineering solutions.\nBuild and integrate AI-powered features, APIs, and services that improve the efficiency, accuracy, and reliability of investigation processes.\nTroubleshoot and resolve production issues, including failed workflows, processing delays, data inconsistencies, and system errors.\nParticipate in rotating on-call coverage, including weekends and holidays, to diagnose issues, implement fixes, and escalate when necessary.\nImprove system reliability and observability through monitoring, logging, automated testing, documentation, and operational tooling.\nInvestigate complex technical issues across backend services, data pipelines, and AI-assisted workflows, identifying root causes and implementing sustainable solutions.\nCollaborate with engineering and platform teams to deploy improvements, maintain system stability, and support evolving operational needs.\nOwn engineering tasks end-to-end, from understanding user requirements and designing solutions to implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance.\nWhat We're Looking For\nStrong software engineering experience, particularly in Python and backend application development.\nExperience with platform engineering, site reliability engineering (SRE), or production operations.\nExperience building, deploying, debugging, and maintaining production software systems.\nFamiliarity with REST APIs, backend services, asynchronous processing, and system integrations.\nPractical experience working with AI-powered applications, LLM APIs, or model-assisted development tools.\nStrong troubleshooting and debugging skills, with the ability to investigate unfamiliar systems and resolve complex production issues.\nExperience supporting production environments, including monitoring, incident response, and reliability improvements.\nAbility to independently scope technical problems, prioritize work, and deliver maintainable solutions.\nStrong communication skills and experience collaborating with technical and nontechnical stakeholders.\nSound judgment when handling sensitive information, operational incidents, and time-sensitive technical challenges.\nAvailability to participate in scheduled on-call coverage, including weekends and holidays.\nNice to Have\nExperience with asynchronous job processing, background workers, task queues, or distributed systems.\nFamiliarity with cloud infrastructure and services such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.\nExperience building internal tools, workflow automation, or investigator-facing applications.\nFamiliarity with observability tools, structured logging, alerting, and incident management practices.\nExperience working in cybersecurity, trust and safety, threat intelligence, or other high-stakes operational environments.\nAdditional Information\nEmployment Type: 1 year contract, 40 hours full-time\nCompensation: $160,000 - 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