# Detection Engineering Lead at Dropzone

- Company: Dropzone
- What the company does: AI agents that investigate every alert, hunt attackers, and respond to emerging threats at machine scale. Customer guided, software executed. Backed by Madrona.
- Company website: https://www.dropzone.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote - US
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-07-20
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/dropzoneai/jobs/4323590009
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/dropzone-detection-engineering-lead/

## About the role

We are a 100% remote company where you will work from your home with company-provided equipment to set you up for success. Semi-frequent travel to professional office settings and other events locally and nationally; some overnight travel expected.

## What they're looking for

- Reimagine how having unlimited detection engineering capacity could change Detection and Response teams and how future security practitioners interact with an AI detection engineer
- Prototype, validate, and continuously improve an AI agent that programmatically generates detection content across diverse security environments
- Experiment autonomous agentic loops between detection engineering and other D&R functions such as threat intelligence and threat hunting
- Partner with engineering teams to encode expert detection knowledge into our product
- Design scoring rubrics on AI generated detection content for SIEM, EDR, NDR, cloud, identity, and SaaS security platforms
- Provide guidance on detection methodologies used by mature SOCs

Tags: Engineering