Software Engineer, Mindgard
£70-150k
Compensation will vary depending on geographic location and experience level.
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Cybersecurity for AI
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Cybersecurity for AI
21-100 employees
Be an early applicant
£70-150k
Compensation will vary depending on geographic location and experience level.
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To secure the world's Artificial Intelligence.
Role
Who you are
- Mission-driven, caring deeply about helping people use AI safely
- Kind and curious, always looking for ways to improve our tech and product for customers
- Experienced builder of SaaS products that delight customers, from conception to production (preferably 4+ years of experience)
- Competent in any of the following languages Python, Typescript, Golang, Java and their ecosystems (e.g. for Python FastAPI, Pytest)
- Collaborative and comfortable with pair-programming
- Expert knowledge at using tests to drive the design of the application
- You see writing tests as an integral part of the development process and understand the benefit of writing code and tests in small increments
- Experienced with building and operating production distributed systems. Experienced with cloud native, containers, Kubernetes and IaC tools
- Familiar with different systems architecture patterns
Desirable
- Have a background in offensive security (i.e. Penetration Testing, Red Teaming)
- Have experience with AI systems (either building or using)
- Have experience working in startups
- Have experience working in an SRE function
- Have contributions to open-source projects
What the job involves
- You will join our engineering team to build and maintain our flagship Continuous Security Testing and AI Red Teaming Platform
- You will work on capabilities across SaaS web apps, from integrations that protect customer systems, to internal tooling that powers our AI threat intelligence
- You will build, test, and continuously deliver small, high quality changes to production
- You will pair program with others on the team to collaboratively build and share knowledge
- You will work with product stakeholders to plan and design improvements to our platform
- You will join customer calls to understand their needs and help design solutions
- You will evolve our architecture to support changing commercial and customer needs
- You will participate in an on-call rota to support the systems you are building
- You will grow other engineers; sharing your experience, providing feedback and mentoring
Application process
- 1. Apply with your profile.
- 2. An initial call with one of the team to help you get to know us better and to share more information about Mindgard and the role.
- 3. A challenge related to the job. This will really help us understand your skillset and give you an idea of the type of things you will be working on at Mindgard.
- 4. A final interview with our founder where we will work through how you completed the challenge.
- 4. Offer 🎉
Our take
Mindgard is enabling enterprise businesses to transition into the new AI world, with a platform that provides threat analysis, detection of malicious actors, and automated red teaming and penetration testing.
This is crucial for companies, as AI poses new risks to cyber that traditional security tools cannot yet detect. Visibility into AI attack surfaces remains limited, and Mindgard simplifies the complexity of model assessment through integrations with common MLOps and SecOps tools, making it easy and actionable to use. Its attack-driven defence capabilities mean that enterprises can map their AI attack surfaces, measure and validate AI risk whilst continuously defending their AI agents.
Mindgard is a deep tech spin-out from Lancaster University, and the team comprises of world-leading scientists and engineers in cyber security & AI systems. It's already being used by key intelligence organisations globally, and the company successfully raised funding in 2024. This is being used to expand operations in the UK and US, ensuring Mindgard stays at the forefront of the ever-evolving AI security space
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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Dec 2024
$8m
EARLY VC
Sep 2023
$4.1m
SEED
Total funding: $12.1m
Company benefits
- Company equity
- Learning & development budget
- Flexible working options
- Generous pension matching (match up to 6%)
- Option to work from our Canary Wharf London office, as well as fully remote
- Great company culture: informal, non-hierarchical, ambitious, collaborative and entrepreneurial
Company values
- Innovative Environment - Join a team that fosters innovation and creativity, providing an environment where your ideas are valued.
- Professional Growth - Experience continuous professional growth with access to learning resources, skill-building workshops.
- Collaborative Culture - Be part of a collaborative culture that values teamwork and open communication.
- Flexible Work Environment - Enjoy a flexible work environment that respects work-life balance. We understand the importance of flexibility.
- Cutting-edge Technology - Work with the latest and most advanced technologies in the coding and development space as a member of our team.
- Impactful Projects - Contribute to projects that make a real impact. Our team takes on exciting challenges that push the boundaries.
Company HQ
Canary Wharf, London, UK
Leadership
Dr Peter Garraghan
(Founder, Chief Science Officer & Professor)Dr. Peter Garraghan is the Co-founder/Chief Science Officer at Mindgard and a Professor at Lancaster University. As a leading expert in AI security, he has raised over €11.6M and published 60+ papers.
James Brear
(Chief Executive Officer)James Brear is the CEO at Mindgard with 15+ years’ experience scaling and selling public and private tech companies, including Swimlane, Veriflow and Procera which were category-defining businesses.
Aaron Portnoy
(Head of Innovation)Aaron Portnoy, Head of Innovation at Mindgard, applies 20+ years of AI security research. Featured on the cover of TIME magazine, he co-founded Pwn2Own and led Randori research (acquired by IBM).
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