Product Security Engineer

What you will do:

• Perform hands-on security testing across web applications, APIs, containers, cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) and AI-enabled features, using manual techniques and security tooling to validate real, exploitable risk rather than raw scanner output.
• Prioritize findings by exploitability and business impact rather than automated severity score alone, and track them through to verified remediation and retest.
• Contribute to threat modeling, secure design reviews and architecture discussions early in the development lifecycle, so risks are caught before code ships.
• Assess identity and access control weaknesses, authentication and authorization models, and modern application and cloud architectures for privilege escalation and misconfiguration risk.
• Test AI-enabled features and agentic workflows for prompt injection, tool misuse, excessive agency and other AI-specific failure modes, and frame probabilistic findings as reproducible, actionable reports.
• Partner with engineering and product teams to explain findings clearly, review fixes, and support secure design and development practices.
• Strengthen security across the software delivery lifecycle, including build pipelines, deployment processes and release practices.
• Document findings and recommendations clearly, and support triage of externally reported vulnerabilities alongside the team that owns coordinated disclosure.
• Research emerging attack techniques and AI-assisted testing tools, and apply them to improve testing coverage, consistency and speed without giving up manual validation of what matters.
• Share knowledge across the team to continuously improve how we test, communicate risk and support secure product development.

What we are looking for:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security or a related field; equivalent practical experience accepted in place of formal education.
• Years of experience: 3+ years of experience performing penetration testing or application security.
• Years of experience needed with specific skills Experience testing across web applications, APIs, containerized deployments and multi-cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), including embedded or agentic AI applications.
• Specific technical or software skills required Demonstrable expertise with tools such as Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, Postman, Git, and Python or similar scripting languages.
• Necessary certifications None required; see Preferred Skills.
• Travel is required: No
• Strong understanding of the OWASP Top 10, the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications, SANS, and MITRE ATT&CK.
• Experience validating vulnerabilities through manual testing, distinguishing real, exploitable risk from raw scanner output.

AI Skills/Knowledge:

• Familiarity with security risks in AI-enabled features — prompt injection, tool misuse, excessive agency, memory poisoning and insecure model integrations — and how they chain into real attack scenarios.
• Able to evaluate AI-generated content critically, verify technical accuracy, and use sound judgment before applying outputs to security testing, analysis or decision-making.
• Demonstrated ability to identify security testing activities that can be automated with AI, and implement practical automation that improves coverage, consistency, speed or reporting quality while maintaining human validation of security decisions.
• Comfort configuring and tuning AI-assisted coding and testing tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code), and staying current with emerging AI attack techniques and testing methodologies.

Preferred Skills (a plus but not required):

• Experience with threat modeling and secure design reviews.
• Familiarity with cloud security concepts and common risks in modern application environments.
• Experience testing APIs, desktop applications, or legacy and mainframe systems (IBM i, z) is beneficial.
• Relevant security certifications such as OSCP, PNPT, GPEN, GWAPT, CEH, or CompTIA Security+; a background in software engineering is also a plus.

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