Founding VP of Engineering

Founding VP of Engineering

Equity Partnership | Available Immediately | Full-Time

We're building AI that reasons like elite pentesters. Backed by Cloudflare, paying customers, real traction. Need an engineering leader to own everything technical.

ABOUT THE ROLE

Founder-level position. You'll work directly with a technical founder to scale a working product into a platform ready for rapid growth. Sophisticated codebasenot technical debt.

You'll inherit:

Multi-agent AI system for automated penetration testing

Proprietary tech enabling AI to operate security tools with human-level fluency

CREST-certified delivery in 48 hours (vs. 6-8 weeks traditional)

WHAT YOU'LL BUILD

AI Agent Architecture Scale LLM orchestration, improve reasoning, expand attack vector coverage

Virtual Patching Platform Expand instant remediation to new deployment modes and frameworks

Continuous Validation Build CI/CD integrations that trigger security testing on code changes

Infrastructure Scale Python, Node.js, Supabase, Cloudflare, AWS stack for 24/7 global delivery

You'll hire and lead an engineering team (first hire: Senior AI/ML Engineer).

REQUIREMENTS

Must have:

Available within 1 month

Comfortable with equity-only for 3+ months (you need runway)

8+ years engineering, 3+ years leadership (VP/Director/founding engineer)

Strong offensive security knowledge you understand how pentesting works, how exploits chain, what makes a finding valid vs. noise

Deep Python and/or Node.js production experience

Shipped AI/ML-powered products (not just LLM experiments)

Hands-on you'll write code, review PRs, debug production issues

Great to have:

Hands-on pentesting experience (OSCP, OSWE, CREST certs a plus)

Experience with Burp Suite, Metasploit, Nuclei, or custom exploit development

Agentic AI / multi-agent orchestration experience

AWS, Cloudflare Workers, edge computing expertise

Previous seed/Series A startup experience

COMPENSATION

Significant founding-team equity (4-year vest, 1-year cliff)

$0 salary until seed closes (3+ months minimum)

Competitive salary post-funding

Full-time commitment (40+ hrs/week)

WHY NOW

Real traction: Paying customers, revenue within months of launch

Real backing: Cloudflare investor, experienced advisors

Real tech: Proprietary AI platform, not a GPT wrapper

Real market: Massive TAM, regulatory tailwinds

Ground floor: Early equity in AI security

HOW TO APPLY

Send LinkedIn/resume + 250-word note answering:

Most complex technical system you've built or scaled

Why AI-powered security excites you

Why equity-only works for you

Include proof of work: GitHub, architecture docs, system you designed, team you built.

DON'T APPLY IF

You need salary immediately

You want a VP title more than building something real

You've never worked at an early-stage startup

You can't start within 1 month

You want to manage without writing code