# Software Engineer - Offensive Security at GhostEye

- Company: GhostEye (YC S25)
- What the company does: Your always-on red team. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://ghosteye.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: New York, NY, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $180K to $250K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-12
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ghosteye/jobs/avuPZtc-software-engineer-offensive-security
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/ghosteye-software-engineer-offensive-security/

## About the role

Attackers already use synthetic voice and video, and the volume is climbing fast. They call help desks and sound like your CFO. They join video calls as an executive who never joined. Most companies have no idea whether their people hold up against this. The only honest way to find out is to run it against them.

## What they're looking for

- You've shipped applied AI to production, not just prototyped it. Real users, real latency budgets, real failure modes
- Depth in one of: real-time speech (recognition, synthesis, voice conversion, streaming audio), generative video or face synthesis, or LLM engineering with retrieval, tool use, and evaluation
- You're good at latency. Real-time pipelines, WebRTC, or low-latency inference count for more here than model training
- You can evaluate systems with fuzzy success criteria and design experiments that give reproducible answers
- You treat data as infrastructure. You've owned an annotation pipeline, an eval set, or a feedback loop, and you know label quality drives model quality more than architecture does
- You work without much direction. You'll pick the problems as often as you're handed them

Tags: Engineering