Join Asymmetric Security as a Founding Engineer to build the AI systems defining the future of cyberdefense. You will scale a production cloud platform, develop sophisticated agentic AI for automated investigations, and make critical architectural decisions. This 0-to-1 role involves shipping across the full stack while hardening infrastructure for enterprise-scale security operations.
Founding Engineer at Asymmetric Security
Join Asymmetric Security as a Founding Engineer to build the AI-native future of digital forensics. You’ll have a defining hand in our architecture, shipping across a modern stack (FastAPI, React, GCP) and deploying production LLMs. If you’re a 0-to-1 builder ready to tackle technically challenging problems alongside a team of cybersecurity experts, this is the career-defining opportunity you’ve been looking for.
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Location
London, United Kingdom
Compensation
Not Disclosed
Company
Asymmetric Security
Role overview
Asymmetric Security is the first AI-native Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) company. It combines frontier AI models with senior cybersecurity experts to automate investigations, collecting artifacts across email, identity, and cloud applications, reconstructing attack timelines, generating recommendations, and delivering structured findings, compressing investigations from days to hours. The company responds to cyber incidents using in-house AI systems, builds realistic evaluations and benchmarks to advance AI cyberdefense capabilities, and has offices in London and San Francisco. Founded in 2025, it recently raised $4.2 million in pre-seed funding.
What you will do
- Develop and deploy agentic AI systems using LangChain and RAG to automate complex, multi-step digital forensics and incident response investigations.
- Ship end-to-end features across a modern stack including FastAPI, React, and DuckDB while managing multi-tenant cloud infrastructure on GCP.
- Design and implement rigorous evaluation frameworks to measure AI performance against real-world cyber incidents and harden production-scale security infrastructure.
Who this is a fit for
- Proven track record of shipping and operating production software with strong Python backend skills in asynchronous patterns, APIs, and task pipelines.
- Hands-on experience deploying LLMs in production environments and a deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, containerization, and data-intensive workloads.
- A proactive 0-to-1 builder who thrives in ambiguity and has experience leading technical initiatives or founding side projects.
Why this role is remarkable
- Founding impact: As one of the first engineers, you will define the technical culture, architecture, and engineering practices of an AI-native security leader.
- High-stakes mission: Protect organizations from complex cyber threats by building automated digital forensics tools that will become ubiquitous in the age of abundant intelligence.
- Strong momentum: Backed by a $4.2M pre-seed round, the platform is already live, serving customers, and automating investigations for hundreds of real cyber attacks.
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