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Asymptote delivers the telemetry, detection, and response layer that makes AI agent activity observable and secure.\nBeacon is our open-source foundation powering that future. It was named one of the hottest open source cybersecurity tools in June 2026.\nThe Role\nWe're looking for a Founding Engineer, Security to help build the security infrastructure for the agentic enterprise.\nAI agents are rapidly gaining access to source code, cloud environments, developer tools, credentials, internal data, and production systems. The security model for this world is still being invented.\nWe're looking for an engineer who understands both sides of that problem: how attackers think and how production security systems need to work. Someone who can dissect a new agent attack in the morning, design the detection in the afternoon, and ship it into a production system used by security teams.\nThis isn't a traditional security engineering role. You'll work directly with Asymptote's founders across security research, detection engineering, product, and infrastructure. You'll help determine what telemetry we collect, how we model agent behavior, what attacks we detect, and how customers investigate and respond to them.\nYou'll be one of the earliest engineers defining the technical foundations of an entirely new security category.\nYou'll have exceptional ownership from day one.\nWhat You Will Do\nBuild the AI Detection & Response Platform\nDesign and build systems that ingest, normalize, and analyze high-volume AI agent activity.\n\nDevelop the security primitives that turn raw agent telemetry into useful detections, investigations, and response actions.\n\nBuild infrastructure that operates reliably across developer environments, CI/CD systems, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise AI deployments.\n\nDesign systems that can reason about identities, tools, permissions, resources, and actions across complex agent workflows.\n\nBuild World-Class Detections\nTranslate emerging attack techniques into production-grade detections.\n\nDevelop detections for prompt injection, tool abuse, privilege escalation, credential theft, data exfiltration, malicious MCPs, agent persistence, and other emerging threats.\n\nBuild behavioral detection systems that identify suspicious sequences of agent activity rather than relying only on static indicators.\n\nDevelop the infrastructure for rapidly deploying, evaluating, and improving new detections.\n\nEngineer Security Telemetry\nDetermine what security-relevant signals need to be captured across AI agents and the systems they interact with.\n\nBuild integrations across coding agents, MCP servers, developer tooling, CI pipelines, cloud environments, and enterprise infrastructure.\n\nDesign schemas and data models capable of representing agent activity across heterogeneous systems.\n\nMake telemetry collection performant, reliable, and useful for real-world investigations.\n\nBuild Investigation & Response Capabilities\nBuild the systems security teams use to understand what an agent did, why it happened, and what was affected.\n\nDevelop investigation primitives for reconstructing complex agent activity across tools and environments.\n\nBuild response mechanisms that allow security teams to contain malicious or compromised agents.\n\nCreate workflows that turn detections into actionable security outcomes rather than another stream of alerts.\n\nWork at the Frontier of AI Security\nPartner closely with our security research team to reproduce emerging attacks and turn them into product capabilities.\n\nBuild adversarial environments for testing Asymptote against real attack techniques.\n\nDevelop evaluation frameworks for measuring detection quality, false positives, and coverage.\n\nContribute security tooling and infrastructure back to Beacon where appropriate.\n\nShape the Product\nWork directly with the founders to define Asymptote's architecture and product direction.\n\nTalk with security teams at enterprise design partners to understand how AI agents are changing their 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