Autonomous Security Engineer

We are seeking an Autonomous Security Engineer, Customer Solutions to operate at the intersection of autonomous offensive security, technical consulting, and customer engineering. You'll be on the front lines of customer engagements, using Apex and the Pensar platform to run autonomous pentests, curate and present findings, deploy Pensar inside customer environments, and help security teams integrate autonomous offensive security into their programs.

This role is customer-facing by design. You'll own the technical relationship with customers from initial deployment through ongoing engagements, acting as the bridge between their security teams and Pensar's engineering and research organization. Everything you learn in the field will feed directly back into the product, helping us make Pensar more capable, reliable, and effective in real-world environments.

The ideal candidate is equally comfortable in a terminal investigating an attack path with Apex, on a Zoom with a CISO walking through findings, and working with our engineering team to figure out why an autonomous agent struggled with a particular environment.

Key Responsibilities

Customer Engagements & Autonomous Security

• Run end-to-end autonomous pentest engagements for customers using Apex and the Pensar platform
• Configure engagements around customer applications, infrastructure, attack surfaces, and security objectives
• Curate, triage, validate, and contextualize autonomous findings before presenting them to customers
• Investigate exploitation paths and agent behavior to understand how and why findings were discovered
• Deliver clear, prioritized findings and walk customers through vulnerabilities, exploitation paths, business impact, and remediation
• Act as a trusted technical security partner throughout onboarding, engagements, and ongoing usage
• Help customers understand how autonomous pentesting fits into their broader security program
• Travel to customer sites as needed for kickoffs, technical workshops, readouts, and on-site engagements

Customer Deployments & Integrations

• Deploy and configure the Pensar platform inside complex customer environments
• Own technical onboarding, including integrations, authentication, networking, workflows, and environment configuration
• Work directly with customer security, infrastructure, and engineering teams to troubleshoot deployment challenges
• Design solutions for customer environments that don't fit neatly into predefined workflows
• Build scripts, integrations, tooling, and automation where necessary to make deployments successful
• Help establish repeatable deployment patterns and best practices as Pensar scales across enterprise environments

Offensive Security & AI

• Apply hands-on offensive security expertise across web applications, APIs, cloud infrastructure, networks, and emerging AI/LLM attack surfaces
• Understand and investigate the behavior of autonomous offensive security agents operating against real systems
• Identify situations where agents fail, get stuck, produce false positives, or miss attack paths and work with engineering and research to improve them
• Develop new workflows, tooling, prompts, techniques, and automation that improve autonomous pentesting outcomes
• Track emerging attacker tradecraft and vulnerability classes and help translate them into capabilities within Apex and Pensar
• Contribute technical expertise to the continued development of autonomous offensive security systems

Product Feedback & Roadmap

• Translate firsthand customer and engagement experience into concrete recommendations for the product roadmap
• Partner closely with engineering and product on capabilities, UX, integrations, and automation that make autonomous pentesting more effective
• Identify recurring customer problems that should become product capabilities rather than one-off solutions
• Participate in architecture and design reviews with a focus on real-world security workflows and customer environments
• Help shape Apex's direction as an open source project alongside the Pensar platform
• Serve as a direct feedback loop between customers and the teams building Pensar

Reports To

CEO / CTO

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications from all qualified candidates regardless of race, gender, age, religion, sexual orientation, or disability status.

• 5+ years of experience in offensive security, pentesting, red teaming, security engineering, solutions engineering, or technical security consulting
• Strong hands-on understanding of modern vulnerability classes across web, cloud, APIs, and infrastructure
• Experience running technical security engagements and communicating findings to customers
• Strong programming or scripting skills, ideally with languages such as Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, or C/C++
• Ability to troubleshoot complex customer environments across networking, authentication, cloud infrastructure, and application architectures
• Excellent customer-facing communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with both deeply technical engineers and security executives
• Ability to operate independently and take ownership of ambiguous technical problems
• Strong understanding of offensive security methodology and attacker tradecraft
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field, or equivalent experience

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• Direct ownership of customer engagements at an early-stage autonomous security company
• Opportunity to work directly with the engineering and research teams building autonomous offensive security systems
• Professional development budget for conferences, training, and certifications
• Support for publishing research and presenting at industry conferences
• Direct, visible impact on both our open source tooling and commercial platform