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Principal Software Engineer

United States, Washington, Redmond💼 Full-time🗓 2026-08-05 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, build, and optimize scalable algorithms, distributed systems, and services for a platform that evaluates agent performance, simulates attacks, and generates security-readiness signals for product teams.

Role type

Principal Software Engineer (AI Security & Agent Orchestration)

Builds

Scalable evaluation platforms, attack-simulation harnesses, agent orchestration frameworks, and data pipelines for LLM-based systems.

Domain

Cybersecurity, AI Safety, Agentic Systems, Large Language Models

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Distributed systems design, algorithm optimization, event-driven architectures, high-throughput telemetry pipelines, workflow orchestration, adversarial testing, API design, developer experience tooling, technical mentorship, cross-team alignment

Preferred skills

Experience with C, C++, C#, or Python, experience building platforms for LLM-based or agentic systems, cybersecurity operations, red teaming, AI safety, abuse or fraud prevention

Technologies

C, C++, C#, Python

Responsibilities

Own architecture and technical direction of the agent evaluation platform, design and optimize scalable algorithms and distributed systems, lead validation of defensive and offensive agent systems, build APIs and tooling for onboarding agents and running threat scenarios, turn evaluation results into actionable engineering insights, set technical direction and mentor engineers, drive cross-team alignment through ambiguity

Seniority

Principal, strategy & mentorship

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