Staff AI Software Engineer, Bishop Fox
Cyber threat prevention platform
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Cyber threat prevention platform
201-500 employees
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201-500 employees
Company mission
Bishop Fox's mission is to help businesses minimize their exposure to cyber threats by providing an offensive, forward defense cyber threat prevention platform.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of shipping production systems
- Deep AI/ML expertise – hands-on experience with LLMs, agent frameworks (LangChain, AutoGPT, CrewAI), or autonomous AI systems
- Advanced programming skills in Python and Golang with clean, scalable code practices
- Full-stack capabilities – comfortable building robust APIs, designing database schemas, and working with modern frontend frameworks (React/TypeScript experience valued)
- Practical experience designing, evaluating, and improving agent reliability, including handling failures, edge cases, and non-deterministic behavior
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure) and containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)
- Understanding of CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices for reliable deployments
- Ability to architect systems that can scale from prototype to enterprise-grade solutions
- Must be based in the San Francisco Bay Area; remote-first with occasional, ad hoc in-office meetings only when necessary
- The Right Mindset
- Portfolio over pedigree – we care more about what you've built than where you learned it
- Excitement about autonomous systems and AI agents that can operate independently
- Comfort with ambiguity and rapid iteration in a fast-moving environment
- Strong judgment in choosing the right tools, models, and architectural approaches for real-world constraints
Desirable
- Experience in penetration testing, red teaming, ethical hacking, or security research
- Understanding of common vulnerabilities, attack vectors, and security frameworks
- Knowledge of security tools and methodologies (but we'll teach you what you don't know!)
- Open-source contributions, especially in AI/automation or security domains
- Hackathon victories or compelling side projects that demonstrate your creativity
- Experience in startup environments or greenfield product development
- Publications, talks, or thought leadership in AI or security communities
- Familiarity with multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning, or swarm intelligence
- Experience with vector databases, RAG pipelines, or advanced prompt engineering
- Understanding of AI safety, alignment, and responsible AI development practices
What the job involves
- This isn't just another engineering role. You'll be joining what's essentially a startup within Bishop Fox – all the innovation and rapid iteration of an early-stage venture, powered by the resources and reputation of an established security leader
- You are an experienced AI engineer who thrives on building real systems that operate in messy, unpredictable environments. You care deeply about reliability, evaluation, and scale—not just whether something works once, but whether it works consistently in production
- Your mission? Build autonomous AI agents that identify genuine vulnerabilities in production applications, capable of thinking, adapting, and hacking like the world's top penetration testers
- Pioneer AI-Driven Security Testing
- Design and build intelligent autonomous security testing agents using large language models and cutting-edge AI/ML techniques
- Create systems that can autonomously perform reconnaissance, identify vulnerabilities, and execute sophisticated attack chains
- Push the boundaries of what's possible when artificial intelligence meets offensive security
- Build robust planning, tool-use, and failure-handling mechanisms for agents operating in real-world, unpredictable applications
- Revolutionize Pen testing at Scale
- Develop services that think and act like elite attackers, but operate 24/7 across thousands of targets
- Transform manual testing processes into intelligent, scalable automation pipelines
- Build systems that continuously evolve and improve their attack strategies
- Implement long-running agent memory and context management so agents retain state, avoid redundant actions, and accumulate application knowledge
- Integrate with Enterprise-Grade Infrastructure
- Connect your AI agents into Bishop Fox's Cosmos cloud platform
- Scale your creations to serve Fortune 100 clients with enterprise-level reliability
- Design architectures that can handle massive concurrent testing operations
- Develop browser and application interaction infrastructure that enables agents to navigate, interact with, and test modern web applications
- Experiment & Innovate Rapidly
- Prototype breakthrough approaches to AI-driven security testing
- Build sophisticated feedback loops that make your agents smarter over time
- Implement safety mechanisms and ethical guardrails for responsible AI deployment
- Measure, iterate, and continuously enhance agent performance
- Design evaluation and monitoring systems that distinguish real vulnerabilities from false positives or hallucinated findings
- Collaborate with Elite Security Minds
- Work directly with world-class penetration testers and security researchers
- Partner with data scientists and AI specialists to solve novel technical challenges
- Contribute to a team culture where hacking expertise meets cutting-edge artificial intelligence
- Apply real-world production feedback from customer environments to refine agent behavior and system reliability
Our take
Cybersecurity software is used by many businesses across the world to mitigate their cyber risk, yet breaches are still common. A prime reason for this is the lack of visibility businesses have into the roots of their IT and data stacks, making it difficult to truly understand and prevent future attacks.
Bishop Fox sets itself apart through its offensive cyber threat prevention platform which is focused on applying a "forward defense" approach (with risk visibility and prevention instead of reaction). The company achieves this by mapping IT stacks to facilitate real-time visibility of attack perimeters, applying complex real-world cyber threat scenarios to assess resilience, and conducting continuous attack emulations.
The attack surface management category has grown in importance in recent years, especially for software. As a result, the market has become increasingly crowded. Bishop Fox has, however, raised impressive funding, which is being used to grow its team and expand its product offering in order to further set itself apart.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
0% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Nov 2022
$54m
SERIES B
Jul 2022
$75m
SERIES B
Total funding: $154m
Company benefits
- Full medical, dental, and vision
- Paid vacations and holidays
- Phone plan
- Commuter benefits program
- Maternity and paternity leave
- Training budgets. Cool swag. Stocked fridges
- Remote-first
Company HQ
Tempe, AZ
Leadership
Vinnie Liu
(Co-Founder & CEO)Experience as Information Security Specialist for Honeywell International. Advisory Board Member of University of Advancing Technology since 2012.
Francis Brown
(Co-Founder & Board Director)Was a security Consultant for Advanced Security Centers, and has experience as IT Security Specialist for Honeywell International.
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