Join as one of the first dedicated engineers at a high-growth London startup automating cybersecurity incident response. You will architect agentic AI systems that handle complex digital forensics, scale a multi-tenant cloud platform on GCP, and build critical evaluations to measure AI performance against real-world cyber threats in production.
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Founding Engineer at Asymmetric Security
Join a high-growth London startup as a Founding Engineer and help build the first AI-native platform for digital forensics and incident response. Backed by $4.2M in pre-seed funding, this team is automating deep security investigations to protect organizations in the AGI era. You'll architect agentic AI systems, scale production cloud infrastructure on GCP, and own features end-to-end alongside a world-class team of cybersecurity experts. If you have deep Python skills, experience deploying LLMs, and a desire for meaningful equity at the earliest stage of a mission-critical security company, this is the definitive 0-to-1 opportunity.
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About the company
Asymmetric Security
$4.2M pre-seed AI-native cyberdefense startup building automated digital forensics for the AGI era
What you'll do
What you will do
- Design and deploy sophisticated agentic AI systems capable of executing multi-step cybersecurity investigations and reasoning chains.
- Architect and scale a cloud-native SaaS platform using FastAPI, React, PostgreSQL, and DuckDB to support real-time enterprise collaboration.
- Build and maintain robust evaluation frameworks to benchmark how AI systems perform against live, documented cyber incidents.
Who you are
Who this is a fit for
- Proven track record of shipping and operating production software with strong Python skills in async patterns and task pipelines.
- Hands-on experience deploying LLMs at scale using frameworks like LangChain and RAG, moving beyond experimentation to production implementations.
- Experienced with cloud-native infrastructure including GCP/AWS, Terraform, and Docker, with a mindset for reliability, observability, and SOC2-compliant operations.
Why this role
Why this role is remarkable
- Significant founding equity stake in a $4.2M pre-seed company solving one of the most critical security challenges of the AI era.
- Directly influence the architectural DNA of a production platform already serving customers and handling real-world cyber attacks.
- Work alongside world-class founders and an expert team of incident responders to build automated forensics tools that will become ubiquitous.
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