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It's one of the biggest blind spots in enterprise security, and we're the team closing it. If you want to work alongside the team solving one of the hardest, most overlooked problems in security, you're in the right place.\nFounded in 2020, Cerby is backed by leading investors and trusted by enterprises across the globe.\nOVERVIEW & IMPACT\nEvery application Cerby protects needs Cerby to know how it works - its API, or the clicks behind its login, password rotation, MFA setup, or access change - and that knowledge breaks whenever a vendor redesigns its site or changes its API. We are looking for a Staff AI Engineer to own the AI agents that onboard new applications and repair automations when they drift. You will start with two agent systems we have already built and benchmarked:\nAPI catalog generation: reads a vendor’s public API docs in a headless browser and produces a validated OpenAPI spec, with per-job cost ceilings and an accuracy benchmark.\nBrowser workflow generation: performs a task in a SaaS app’s web UI and writes a replayable automation workflow, handling MFA, one-time codes, and CAPTCHAs along the way.\nYour job is to take them to production, make them self-healing, and set the direction for agentic automation at Cerby. These agents handle real customer credentials and browse untrusted sites, so security is part of the job, not an afterthought.\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\nOwnership and Production\nOwn agentic onboarding and self-healing end to end: architecture, roadmap, and on-call once live.\nTake the existing systems to production on durable workflows (Temporal), with the observability to run them.\nSelf-Healing Automation\nDetect drift - a changed login page, a moved button, a renamed API field - from failed runs, before customers notice.\nBuild agents that diagnose the break, repair the workflow or spec, and re-validate the fix against real runs before it goes back into service.\nDecide what heals automatically and what needs human review.\nEvaluation and Cost\nOwn the benchmarks for generated specs, workflows, and repairs, and make “good enough to ship” a measured threshold.\nOwn cost and latency per output, choosing between frontier and open-weight models on measured accuracy versus cost.\nSecurity\nOwn the threat model: prompt injection from page content, credential isolation, token handling, sandboxed browsing, and egress.\nKeep credentials out of prompts, logs, queues, and stored run state.\nCollaboration\nPartner with the integrations, automation-runtime, and platform teams; 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