# Founding Engineer, Security at Asymptote Labs

- Company: Asymptote Labs
- What the company does: Asymptote is the AI detection and response layer for every agent harness. Deploy in minutes, get complete runtime visibility, and implement policy controls across your environment. Backed by South Park Commons.
- Company website: https://asymptotelabs.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: New York City
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $300K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-16
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/asymptotelabs/0cc3183c-66d9-4aea-9e77-dd0da2ea8087
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/asymptote-labs-founding-engineer-security/

## About the role

We're looking for a Founding Engineer, Security to help build the security infrastructure for the agentic enterprise. AI agents are rapidly gaining access to source code, cloud environments, developer tools, credentials, internal data, and production systems. The security model for this world is still being invented.

## What they're looking for

- 5+ years of experience in security engineering, detection engineering, security infrastructure, backend engineering for security products, or adjacent fields
- Strong software engineering skills and experience building production systems
- Deep understanding of security fundamentals across identity, authentication, authorization, networks, cloud infrastructure, endpoints, or application security
- Experience working with security telemetry and turning large volumes of events into useful security signals
- Ability to think adversarially and understand how attackers abuse complex systems
- Experience designing and operating distributed systems, data pipelines, or security infrastructure in production

Tags: Engineering