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You'll investigate new attack surfaces, including AI coding agents, agent plugins, and package ecosystems, and build systems that help detect threats and improve vulnerability advisories.\n\nThis is a full-stack role: you'll take an idea from the first research question to a working proof of concept, deploy it, and analyze the results yourself. Artificial intelligence (AI) is central to how we work. You'll use AI tools daily and build agentic workflows for research, analysis, and detection.\n\nWhat you'll do:\nResearch new attack surfaces and threat vectors, including AI coding agents, agent plugins, and package ecosystems.\nFind and responsibly disclose vulnerabilities in open source projects and developer tools.\nAnalyze software supply chain incidents and events.\nBuild AI-powered workflows and agents that automate research, analysis, and detection.\nBuild and maintain the cloud-based systems behind our detection and advisory work.\nImprove the quality and coverage of our vulnerability and malware advisories.\nWrite up your findings as blog posts and present them at conferences.\n\nWhat you'll bring:\nHands-on security experience in research, malware analysis, penetration testing, or security tooling, with an understanding of package ecosystems and software supply chain attacks.\nBoth a developer mindset and an adversarial mindset: you can build systems and think about how to break them.\nDemonstrated experience using AI in real work, such as building with large language model (LLM) application programming interfaces (APIs) or agent frameworks like LangChain, LangGraph, or agent software development kits (SDKs).\nStrong programming skills in Go or Python, with good software engineering practices, including testing, code review, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), and writing maintainable code.\nExperience deploying and running production services on a public cloud.\nThe ability to map attack vectors, explain trade-offs, and use data to move experiments forward, balancing quality, speed, and customer outcomes.\nClear writing for engineers and a general audience, and keeping up with security and AI industry trends.\n\nHelpful, but not required:\nGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP).\nCommon Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) entries or published findings.\nResearch on AI agents, LLM applications, or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.\nBlogs, talks, or open source security tools.\nTerraform or OpenTofu.\nDatabases or data pipelines at scale.\nReverse engineering.\n\nYou don't need deep knowledge of compilers or static application security testing (SAST) engines. 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