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What turns a model into a capability you can run against a customer's app every day, and at scale, is the harness around it: how you feed it the target, scaffold its reasoning, give it tools, orchestrate cheap models against expensive ones, score what it produces, and stop it from shipping garbage. That harness is our core IP and our main lever on accuracy, coverage, and cost. You will own it.\n\nWhat you'll do\nBuild and productionize harnesses for autonomous pentesting across web, API, mobile, cloud, and more, taking each from a working prototype to something reliable against real customer targets.\nOrchestrate models against each other: use frontier models as the source of intelligence, then distill that into cheaper open-weight models so we can run at scale economically.\nOwn evaluation. Define what a true finding is, measure recall and precision against ground truth, penalize false positives hard, normalize for cost, and control for run-to-run variance. If it is not measured, it does not ship.\nPush accuracy and coverage up, and cost and latency down, release over release.\nBuild the guardrails that keep a hallucinated finding from ever reaching a customer, because one false critical costs more trust than ten real findings earn.\nWork shoulder to shoulder with our pentesters and researchers: turn their judgment into harness logic, and build tools that make them faster.\nWhat we're looking for\nAn engineer who ships. You write clean, scalable, flexible code, get a working slice out fast, then harden it. Prototypes that never reach production are not the job.\nReal LLM engineering: prompting and scaffolding, tool use and agents, orchestration across models, retrieval and context management, and a feel for where models break.\nEnough security depth to judge the output. You do not need to be a career pentester, but you must look at a finding and tell real from plausible-but-wrong, and reason about severity. 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