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Experienced cyber engineers and senior technical leaders who want to remain hands-on are welcome.\nEliza is AI-native. You will use agentic coding tools in your engineering workflow (including OpenAI Daybreak), inspect and verify their output, and make practical decisions about where models help, where they fail, and where human judgment belongs. Client needs and technology change quickly; we value clear thinking, adaptability, and ownership through a validated outcome.\nKey Responsibilities\n1. Turn cyber needs into a technical plan\nLead technical discovery with customer security and engineering teams to understand workflows, systems, data, risks, and operating constraints.\n\nDefine a tractable problem, baseline, architecture, and acceptance criteria; explain what to build, defer, or escalate.\n\nAlign engineering work with measurable security outcomes, such as faster investigation or validated remediation, and make scope, dependencies, and tradeoffs visible.\n\n2. Build and integrate AI-enabled security workflows\nWrite, review, and debug production software that connects models, APIs, telemetry, and security systems to support detection, investigation, and vulnerability remediation.\n\nChoose tools and architecture that fit the engagement, balancing speed, reliability, maintainability, and cost.\n\nUse AI coding tools effectively while retaining ownership of code quality, correctness, and security.\n\n3. Deploy and operate in customer environments\nOwn deployment and troubleshooting with the appropriate customer owners, including configuration, access, CI/CD, monitoring, and integration failures.\n\nEstablish clear release, rollback, and operating procedures for the capability you deliver.\n\nResolve issues across system boundaries and surface technical or delivery risks early with a recommendation.\n\n4. Evaluate quality and apply security judgment\nThreat-model AI-enabled workflows and test realistic failure cases, including prompt injection, sensitive-data exposure, and unsafe tool actions, before treating a demonstration as production-ready.\n\nBuild practical controls across prompts, data flows, APIs, and cloud services, including least-privilege access, secrets protection, auditability, and human approval for consequential actions.\n\nVerify that fixes address the original problem, document limitations, and involve specialist reviewers when needed.\n\n5. Earn customer trust through technical delivery\nExplain architecture, evidence, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to technical and nontechnical stakeholders.\n\nChallenge requests that would undermine security or usefulness and offer practical alternatives.\n\nWork with delivery and commercial partners on commitments and additional opportunities grounded in demonstrated customer value.\n\n6. Leave maintainable capabilities behind\nProduce clear documentation, interfaces, runbooks, and knowledge transfer so customer teams can operate and extend the work.\n\nAgree operating ownership and handover criteria, or continued operation when the engagement calls for it.\n\nTurn proven solutions and lessons into reusable engineering patterns, evaluation cases, and playbooks; share technical guidance with colleagues.\n\nQualifications\nRequired\nDeep practical cybersecurity expertise, including hands-on blue-team experience in detection, investigation, response, or defensive security engineering, with specific examples of decisions and outcomes you personally owned.\n\nStrong software engineering skills beyond security scripting: production code, integrations, debugging, testing, and maintainable system design.\n\nA record of taking complex technical work from problem definition through deployment, validation, and operational handover.\n\nPractical AI fluency, including effective use 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