About the job
About DepthFirst AI
At DepthFirst AI, we recognize that software underpins modern civilization, yet its vulnerabilities pose significant risks to integrity and security. Our mission is to enhance software security through innovative solutions.
We are developing cutting-edge intelligence to identify and remediate critical software vulnerabilities, leveraging AI agents to discover zero-day vulnerabilities across extensive customer codebases and popular open-source software.
Our founding team comprises industry leaders from DeepMind, Databricks, Square, and Faire, bringing unparalleled expertise in security and large language models (LLMs). We seek talented technical professionals eager to explore the intersection of AI, security, and infrastructure.
Role Overview:
We are looking for a skilled Research Engineer to contribute to the development and training of AI agents focused on vulnerability discovery and exploitation.
Your work will be pivotal in creating technology capable of detecting vulnerabilities, akin to Log4J, at scale, ensuring the security of customer and open-source codebases.
Ideal candidates will possess a strong engineering intuition, experience in model evaluation and benchmarks, with reinforcement learning experience being an added advantage. Your contributions will be instrumental in shaping a product that aims to revolutionize security practices for companies.
Why You Will Love This Role:
Develop Cutting-Edge AI pipelines tailored for the detection and exploitation of complex software vulnerabilities.
Design and Maintain evaluation benchmarks that genuinely reflect the challenges faced by our users.
Craft effective training methodologies and reinforcement learning environments for security coding agents.
Be Part of a Solution to critical security challenges, with feedback from our valued customers revealing the immediate impact of our product.

