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.
About the role
We're looking for our Founding Security Research Lead to help define the future of AI agent security. We're looking for the person who sees every new AI security incident and immediately starts trying to reproduce it. AI systems are introducing entirely new attack surfaces. Incidents like the OpenAI Hugging Face security incident and the Groq Build data exfiltration catastrophe are only the beginning.
What they're looking for
- 5+ years of experience in offensive security, security research, detection engineering, red teaming, or vulnerability research
- Experience discovering, analyzing, or detecting sophisticated real-world attacks
- Strong software engineering skills with the ability to rapidly build research tooling and proof-of-concepts
- Experience publishing original technical research, open-source projects, or conference talks
- Deep curiosity and a habit of experimenting with new AI systems as they emerge
- Exceptional technical writing and communication skills
More about this role
Asymptote is building the AI Detection & Response layer for the agentic enterprise. AI agents are becoming enterprise infrastructure, but security teams have no unified system of record for what they're doing.
Asymptote delivers the telemetry, detection, and response layer that makes AI agent activity observable and secure. Beacon is our open-source foundation powering that future. It was named one of the hottest open source cybersecurity tools in June 2026.
We're looking for our Founding Security Research Lead to help define the future of AI agent security. We're looking for the person who sees every new AI security incident and immediately starts trying to reproduce it.
AI systems are introducing entirely new attack surfaces. Incidents like the OpenAI Hugging Face security incident and the Groq Build data exfiltration catastrophe are only the beginning.
We're looking for someone obsessed with understanding how AI agents fail in the real world. Someone who spends weekends reading incident reports, building offensive tooling, discovering new attack techniques, and publishing original research.
This isn't a traditional security research role. You'll work directly with Asymptote's...
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