Software Engineer, Mindgard
£70-120k
More information about location
Cyber security for AI
Job no longer available
Cyber security for AI
1-20 employees
Job no longer available
£70-120k
More information about location
1-20 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 chat with one of our technical team members to learn more about your skills and experience related to the role.
- 4. A challenge related to the job. This will help us understand your skillset and give you an idea of the type of things you will be working on at Mindgard.
- 5. A final interview with our founders where we will work through how you completed the challenge.
- 5. Offer 🎉
Our take
Mindgard is enabling enterprise businesses to move into the new AI world, with a platform that provides threat analysis, detection of bad actors and automated red teaming and penetration testing. This is crucial for companies as it makes the complexity of model assessment easy and actionable through integrations into common MLOps and SecOps tools.
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 has recently successfully raised funding. This will be used to expand operations in the UK and US, ensuring Mindgard stays at the forefront of the ever-evolving AI security space.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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 HQ
Canary Wharf, London, UK
Leadership
Dr Peter Garraghan
(CEO, CTO & Professor)Dr. Peter Garraghan is CEO & CTO of Mindgard and Professor of Computer Science at Lancaster University. A leading expert in AI security, he has raised over €11.6M and published 60+ papers.
Steve Street
(COO/CRO)Steve Street, COO of Mindgard, has 25+ years in cybersecurity. He founded and led Tantallon, and has been Chairperson at CoolCleanZero and Non-Executive Chair at Climategames.
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