Full-Time

Offensive Security Engineer

Updated on 9/3/2026

Wraithwatch

Wraithwatch

11-50 employees

AI-driven security platform with adaptive defenses

No salary listed

Remote in USA

Remote

Category
Cybersecurity (1)
Required Skills
LLM
Machine Learning
RAG
Cybersecurity
Penetration Testing

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Requirements
  • 5+ years professional experience conducting complex penetration testing assessments in commercial or government environments.
  • Deep, hands-on understanding of the current landscape of offensive cyber tradecraft, including in-memory attacks, fileless attacks, beacon object files, malleable command and control, modern initial access vectors, and emerging endpoint detection and response bypasses.
  • Experience implementing or assisting with the implementation of enterprise or corporate security controls such as anti-malware policies, identity and access controls, detection engineering, and device management.
  • Interest in adapting artificial intelligence to red teaming and penetration testing use cases.
  • Willingness to work extended hours and weekends as needed.
Responsibilities
  • Continuously harden Wraithwatch and its product against advanced threats.
  • Teach the system expert attack tradecraft and help it evolve to execute that tradecraft autonomously.
  • Build and ship product capabilities with the core product engineers.
Desired Qualifications
  • Interest in modern machine learning or artificial intelligence capabilities, especially emerging subsets of Generative AI such as agentic behavior, tool calling, knowledge graph integration, and retrieval augmented generation.
  • Ability to deal with ambiguity and learn new technologies quickly.

Wraithwatch builds a B2B cybersecurity platform that uses artificial intelligence to predict, detect, and counter threats, especially those from generative AI, by integrating with a client’s existing security tools. Its self-evolving, agentic AIs sit on top of the client’s defenses and run simulated cyberattacks to uncover vulnerabilities, aiming to cut incident response time from weeks to minutes. Unlike traditional security software, it emphasizes autonomous AI that continuously adapts and augments security stacks and focuses on AI-driven threats, including offerings for government and allied entities. Its goal is to provide an adaptive, AI-powered defense that rapidly detects, neutralizes, and responds to cyber threats, strengthening protection against sophisticated attackers.

Company Size

11-50

Company Stage

Seed

Total Funding

$8M

Headquarters

Bozeman, Montana

Founded

2023

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What believers are saying

  • February 20, 2026 federal contract validated autonomous defense demand across multiple U.S. agencies.
  • Wraithwatch says it serves federal government, aerospace, defense, manufacturing, and Fortune 500 customers.
  • Current hiring targets nuclear, aerospace, and government buyers, signaling expanding commercial and public demand.

What critics are saying

  • A single $30.5 million DHS order creates heavy federal concentration and procurement dependence.
  • 1/21/2026 contract award through Nextech Solutions adds reseller opacity and margin pressure.
  • Crowded AI-security competition from Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike threatens budget capture by 2027.

What makes Wraithwatch unique

  • Founded by SpaceX, Palantir, Anduril, and JSOC alumni, giving elite operator credibility.
  • Wraithwatch offers a unified data fabric and control plane with open, interoperable agent support.
  • Its platform builds digital twins and computes attack paths in real time for defense.

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Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

7%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

15%
PR Newswire
Feb 20th, 2026
Wraithwatch wins $30M US federal contract for AI-powered cyber defence platform

Wraithwatch, an AI cyber defence company founded by veterans of JSOC, Palantir, SpaceX and Anduril, has secured a $30 million federal contract to deploy its autonomous cyber defence platform across multiple US government agencies. The Austin-based startup's system continuously models networks, computes attack paths in real time and deploys defensive mitigations at machine speed using AI agents that identify and neutralise cyber threats. The platform creates a digital twin of an organisation's environment to help security teams understand imminent network threats. Founded in 2023, Wraithwatch serves federal government and Fortune 500 customers. CEO Nik Seetharaman said the company provides defensive counterpressure against the growing threat of AI-powered offensive attacks, as frontier AI capabilities enable recursive self-improvement and exploit discovery.

FinSMEs
Nov 2nd, 2023
Wraithwatch Raises $8M in Seed Funding

Wraithwatch, a Bozeman, MT-based cyber defense company, raised $8M in Seed funding