Autonomous security agents on a live knowledge graph of your code, cloud, and vendors. Tolmo finds vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and threats, then ships the fix. Backed by Accel and Y Combinator.
About the role
As a Research Engineer on Offensive Security, you make our agents attack like the best human red teamers, and then better. You'll research how real systems get broken, turn that knowledge into techniques, tools, and evaluations our agents can use, and prove it against real customer environments. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- Deep hands-on offensive security experience: penetration testing, red teaming, exploit development, or vulnerability research
- A track record that shows it: CVEs, bug bounty results, CTF wins, published research, or talks
- Strong engineering skills: you write production-quality code (Go, TypeScript, or Python) and build tools other people rely on, not just one-off scripts
- Solid understanding of modern application and cloud architectures and how they fail: auth, access control, SSRF, injection, misconfigured IAM, exposed secrets, supply chain
- You build with AI coding agents daily (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) and are curious about how far autonomous agents can take offensive work
- Sound judgment about safety and scope: you know how to test production-like systems without causing harm
More about this role
Tolmo is cybersecurity for the age of AI. Coding agents now ship software faster than any human team can review or secure it; 100+ pull requests per engineer per week is no longer an outlier, and attackers are using the same agents to find and exploit weaknesses in days, not months. The old playbook of quarterly pentests and endless alert queues breaks at this speed.
We're building a new security playbook. Tolmo runs a fleet of AI security agents that reason over a live graph of your entire production system (code, CI, cloud, and telemetry) and continuously attack a faithful copy of it like a real adversary. Every finding arrives validated, with its blast radius and a remediation plan that lands in your workflow, ready for a coding agent to fix. Hours to integrate, days to your first validated finding.
We've done this before: Tolmo's founders built Sqreen (acquired by Datadog) and led security products that thousands of organizations trusted. We're backed by Accel and Y Combinator and just getting started.
As a Research Engineer on Offensive Security, you make our agents attack like the best human red teamers, and then better. You'll research how real systems get broken, turn that...
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