Sr Application Security Engineer - AI-First Development

Position Overview

The primary responsibility of the Senior Application Security Engineer (AI-First Development) is to design, orchestrate, and validate the offensive security tooling and adversary-emulation capabilities used to find, prove, and help remediate exploitable weaknesses across applications, infrastructure, the software supply chain, and AI/ML systems. This role operates within an AI-First SDLC where AI agents are the primary producers of offensive tooling, exploit proof‑of‑concept code, attack automation, and adversary‑emulation artifacts.

The engineer provides operational direction, context engineering, human‑in‑the‑loop governance, and final accountability for the safety, authorization, and effectiveness of all offensive security work. All testing is performed strictly within authorized scope and defined rules of engagement.

Build, maintain, and orchestrate AI agent workflows that produce offensive security tooling, exploit proof‑of‑concept code, attack automation, and adversary‑emulation artifacts from engagement objectives and authorized scope. Decompose engagement objectives and threat scenarios into discrete, verifiable offensive tasks and tooling components that AI agents can execute effectively within defined boundaries and rules of engagement. Select and configure appropriate AI models, agent frameworks, and offensive tooling for each workflow based on blast radius, target sensitivity, operational safety, and cost considerations.

Construct and maintain operational context that provides agents with approved attack techniques, target environment details, rules of engagement, and safety constraints needed to produce correct, in‑scope, and consistent outputs. Contribute to the offensive toolchain, including reusable testing skills, automation hooks, and project memory files that provide persistent context across agent sessions. Systematically capture attack patterns, technique effectiveness, and findings from each engagement and encode them back into shared context, offensive skills, and agent configurations so that subsequent work becomes more reliable.

Participate in collaborative refinement sessions to align on engagement objectives, scope, safety constraints, and context packages before agent execution begins. Establish and maintain rules of engagement, scope boundaries, written authorization, and deconfliction procedures for each engagement, ensuring all offensive activity remains legal, authorized, and safe.

Apply human oversight at governance checkpoints appropriate to the risk level of each workflow, including pre‑execution review, in‑flight observation, and post‑execution audit. Review, test, and approve AI‑generated offensive tooling, exploit code, and attack automation, ensuring they meet coding standards, operational safety requirements, and rules of engagement before use against any authorized target. Verify that AI‑generated exploits and offensive tooling demonstrate genuine, reproducible impact rather than false positives, and reject findings that cannot be reliably validated or that achieve results outside authorized scope.

Partner with Cyber Security on threat and risk assessments, vulnerability remediation, AI agent governance, and approved tooling decisions, surfacing offensive findings and exploitability signals that inform their reviews. Support agent observability practices that track engagement activity, finding rates, exploit reproducibility, and coverage across targets and environments. Produce clear, reproducible engagement deliverables, including technical findings reports, executive summaries, attack‑path narratives, and prioritized remediation recommendations tailored to both technical and executive stakeholders.

Architect and deliver shared offensive tooling, exploitation frameworks, and reusable testing harnesses spanning web, API, cloud, and binary targets that the security team consumes, using AI‑First methodologies as the primary development…