Forward-Deployed Security Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Strix is on a mission to solve security by building autonomous AI penetration testing agents that think like attackers. We are seeking a Forward-Deployed Security Engineer to be the technical bridge between Strix and our customers, running engagements, tuning the platform to each environment, and turning agent findings into fixed vulnerabilities.

🏢 About Strix

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About Strix
We believe that software is the foundation of modern civilization, yet vulnerabilities threaten its integrity, security, and resilience. Strix is on a mission to solve security.
Strix builds autonomous AI penetration testing agents that think like attackers: discovering, validating, and helping fix real vulnerabilities across live applications, codebases, and infrastructure, continuously, not once a year. We are looking for strong technical people who want to work at the intersection of AI, security, and infrastructure.

🎯 The Role

You're excited about this role because you will…

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Deploy and operate Strix inside customer environments, from kickoff to eye-opening findings
• Triage and validate agent-discovered vulnerabilities and communicate impact to security teams
• Feed what you learn in the field back into the product and the agents
• Become a trusted security advisor to some of the most interesting engineering organizations

📌 Required Qualifications

• 3+ years in security engineering, penetration testing, or solutions/security consulting
• Strong understanding of application security and common vulnerability classes
• Scripting ability (Python, bash) and comfort working across varied customer stacks
• Excellent written and verbal communication with technical and executive audiences
• A tendency to leave things in a better way than you found them

🎁 Benefits

Competitive salary with meaningful equity
Health, vision, and dental insurance
Office lunch and dinner (when working from our New York office)

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Strix is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or related condition, or any other basis protected by law.