Staff Software Engineer, AI

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Job Type: Full-Time
• Salary: $170K - $211K

HackerOne is a global leader in offensive security solutions, combining AI with a community of security researchers to find and fix vulnerabilities. The platform offers bug bounty, vulnerability disclosure, pentesting, AI red teaming, and code security. HackerOne is recognized for its innovation and positive workplace culture.

Position Summary

As a Staff Software Engineer on the AI Platform team, you will develop cutting-edge AI-powered security solutions. You will work on the AI platform, contribute to the AI security agent "Hai," and build next-generation AI safety and security tools. The role involves empowering organizations and developers to create more secure software through AI-driven security innovation.

Location Details

While the position is primarily remote, candidates located in Seattle, Washington, and the surrounding metropolitan areas are preferred to facilitate occasional in-person interactions for team collaboration and relationship building.

What You Will Do

• Build and evolve the autonomous AI security agent “Hai” for vulnerability detection, threat intelligence generation, and automated security analysis.
• Enhance "Hai" to provide instant security insights, natural language query processing, and actionable recommendations.
• Develop AI red teaming agents and frameworks to identify vulnerabilities in large language models and generative AI systems.
• Collaborate with product teams to integrate AI capabilities for vulnerability discovery, validation, and remediation.
• Create APIs and integrations for seamless interaction between AI models, security tools, and the HackerOne ecosystem.
• Partner with cross-functional teams (Product, Security Research, Customer Success) to deliver customer-facing security solutions.
• Integrate emerging agentic frameworks and LLM-based orchestration tools (e.g., LangChain, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, OpenAgents) to power stateful AI agents.

HackerOne Values

• Customer Obsessed: Prioritize customer outcomes.
• Default to Disclosure: Operate with transparency and integrity.
• Win Together: Foster empowerment, inclusion, respect, and accountability.