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Senior Security Engineer, Research & Engineering

United Kingdom🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-02 → 2026-09-26

Core

Evaluate formal proofs and specifications against real-world threat models to find gaps, then build AI-driven tooling to automate vulnerability discovery and generate exploits.

Role type

Senior Security Engineer (Research & Engineering)

Builds

AI-driven agentic harnesses, triage pipelines, and automated exploit generation systems

Domain

Cybersecurity, Formal Methods, AI Infrastructure, Cryptography

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Red teaming, building AI tools for bug finding, formal methods, systems domain depth, software development (Python/C++/Rust), written technical reporting, vulnerability disclosure

Preferred skills

Published vulnerability research, auditing formally verified codebases, building automated bug-finding infrastructure, zero-knowledge proofs, attacking AI inference infrastructure, CTF participation, compiler/program analysis

Technologies

Lean, Rocq, F*, Dafny, Verus, Rust, Python, C++, Buttercup, LLMs

Responsibilities

Break systems built to resist you by demonstrating exploits; Map the real attack surface of formal proofs; Build tooling that decides your coverage; Write assessment records; Raise the practice around you through publishing and presenting

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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