Senior Agentic Security Automation Engineer

NowSecure is seeking a Senior Agentic Security Automation Engineer to develop autonomous security testing systems, automate workflows, and innovate in AI-driven security analysis, transforming security testing from manual to automated processes.

Location: Remote (US)

Salary: $120,000–$160,000/yr

Responsibilities

• Architect, build, and deploy advanced AI agents capable of autonomous reasoning, decision-making, and security analysis.
• Design and implement multi-step agentic workflows that replicate and scale expert security testing methodologies.
• Develop systems capable of analyzing applications on desktop software, IoT devices, APIs, and emerging technology platforms.
• Create autonomous and human-in-the-loop workflows that balance scale, accuracy, and trust.
• Develop reusable tools, skills, prompts, workflows, MCP servers, and agent orchestration infrastructure.
• Integrate static and dynamic analysis, reverse engineering and decompilation, network analysis, vulnerability intelligence, and custom security tooling into agent workflows.
• Design systems that allow security expertise to be reused and continuously improved over time.
• Stay current on advancements in agentic AI, offensive security, software assurance, and autonomous systems.
• Prototype and evaluate new approaches for increasing the scale and depth of security testing.
• Collaborate with security analysts and researchers to convert offensive security methodologies into scalable automation.

Requirements

• Coding experience in Python, JavaScript, or TypeScript.
• A security background, ideally in offensive security such as penetration testing, application security, security consulting, or research.
• Curiosity and aptitude for AI, with hands-on experience building with LLMs, agentic frameworks, or Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG).
• U.S. citizenship, as the role supports U.S. government work.

Benefits

• Bonuses, equity grants, and a comprehensive benefits package including health insurance, 401k with company match, paid parental leave, Home Office Stipend, and flexible PTO.
• Remote-first work environment.