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About the Role

Asymptote is seeking a Founding Security Engineer to build the security infrastructure for the agentic enterprise, focusing on AI detection and response. This role involves defining the technical foundations of a new security category, working directly with founders on security research, detection engineering, product, and infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Design and build systems that ingest, normalize, and analyze high-volume AI agent activity.
• Develop security primitives to transform raw agent telemetry into detections, investigations, and response actions.
• Build infrastructure operating across developer environments, CI/CD systems, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise AI deployments.
• Design systems to reason about identities, tools, permissions, resources, and actions in complex agent workflows.
• Translate emerging attack techniques into production-grade detections.
• Develop detections for prompt injection, tool abuse, privilege escalation, credential theft, data exfiltration, malicious MCPs, agent persistence, and other emerging threats.
• Build behavioral detection systems identifying suspicious agent activity sequences.
• Develop infrastructure for rapid deployment, evaluation, and improvement of new detections.
• Determine security-relevant signals to capture across AI agents and their interacting systems.
• Build integrations across coding agents, MCP servers, developer tooling, CI pipelines, cloud environments, and enterprise infrastructure.
• Design schemas and data models for representing agent activity across heterogeneous systems.
• Ensure telemetry collection is performant, reliable, and useful for investigations.
• Build systems for security teams to understand agent actions, causes, and affected components.
• Develop investigation primitives for reconstructing complex agent activity across tools and environments.
• Build response mechanisms for containing malicious or compromised agents.
• Create workflows turning detections into actionable security outcomes.
• Partner with security research to reproduce emerging attacks and develop product capabilities.
• Build adversarial environments for testing Asymptote against real attack techniques.
• Develop evaluation frameworks for measuring detection quality, false positives, and coverage.
• Contribute security tooling and infrastructure back to Beacon.
• Work with founders to define Asymptote's architecture and product direction.
• Engage with enterprise design partners to understand AI agent impact on their environments.
• Help determine which security problems to solve, abstractions to build, and technical investments.
• Own major product parts from design through production deployment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in security engineering, detection engineering, security infrastructure, backend engineering for security products, or adjacent fields.
• Strong software engineering skills and experience building production systems.
• Deep understanding of security fundamentals across identity, authentication, authorization, networks, cloud infrastructure, endpoints, or application security.
• Experience working with security telemetry and transforming large volumes of events into useful security signals.
• Ability to think adversarially and understand how attackers abuse complex systems.
• Experience designing and operating distributed systems, data pipelines, or security infrastructure in production.
• Comfort moving between low-level technical investigation and high-level system design.
• High agency and excitement to build core infrastructure from the ground up.

Skills

• Security Engineering
• Detection Engineering
• Security Infrastructure
• Backend Engineering
• Software Engineering
• Production Systems
• Security Fundamentals
• Identity Management
• Authentication
• Authorization
• Network Security
• Cloud Infrastructure Security
• Endpoint Security
• Application Security
• Security Telemetry
• Adversarial Thinking
• Distributed Systems
• Data Pipelines
• System Design
• EDR
• SIEM
• Cloud Security
• Security Analytics
• Behavioral Detections
• AI Agents
• LLM Infrastructure
• MCP
• Coding Assistants
• AI Security
• eBPF
• Endpoint Telemetry
• Runtime Security
• System Instrumentation
• High-volume Event Ingestion
• Streaming Systems
• Incident Response
• Threat Research
• Open-source Security Contributions
• Security Tooling

Location

• Remote

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Founding Engineer
• 5+ years

Salary/Compensations

• $150,000–$300,000 base

Benefits

• Meaningful founding-stage equity

About the Company

• Asymptote is building the AI Detection & Response layer for the agentic enterprise.
• AI agents are becoming enterprise infrastructure, but security teams lack a unified system of record for their activities.
• Asymptote provides the telemetry, detection, and response layer to make AI agent activity observable and secure.
• Beacon is their open-source foundation, recognized as a hot open-source cybersecurity tool.