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# Software Engineer - AI (Level determined by experience)

- **Company:** Synack, Inc.
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $145,000.0 - $250,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Software System Penetration Testing, Code Review, Cyber Security, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Large Language Models, Kubernetes, Apache Kafka, Api Design, Docker, Microservices
- **Published:** August 3, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=70641c4e21e7ebf4

## About the Role

* 7+ years of experience in software engineering.
 * Proven ability to build and scale production systems
 * Strong Python, polyglot codebase,
 * Fluent or willing to learn Go
 * Experience building LLMs an agentic frameworks leveraging tools like RAG, MCP- from dev environment to production
 * Demonstrate ability to create reliable agents (prompting, evaluation, guardrails, understanding of token and cost optimization
 * Capable leveraging Docker, Kubernetes, isolated sandbox, cloud experience GCP preferred
 * Brings a disciplined testing approach to microservices gPRC, API design, async messaging (Pub/Sub, Kafka)
 * Passionate desire to understand how systems get compromised
 * Clear communication
 * Collaborative ability to partner across teams

Nice To Have

 * Experience in a fast-paced startup environment.
 * Experience in Cyber Security.

Ready to join us?

## Description

* Build AI agents that automate penetration testing: planning, tool use, reasoning over findings, and acting safely within scope.
 * Stand up and run the sandboxed cyber-lab and range infrastructure, containerised on Kubernetes, where these agents execute offensive tooling.
 * Ship features from ideation through production, including evals, guardrails and monitoring.
 * Improve how our agents work: prompting, tool orchestration, evaluation, and cost.
 * Lead code reviews and design sessions, and help the engineers around you grow.
 * Work closely with our security researchers to translate how they hack into how our agents operate.


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