# Research Engineer, AI Security at Tolmo

- Company: Tolmo
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://tolmo.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-11-02
- Apply by: 2026-12-17
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tolmo/f08cb48e-4950-416b-9f75-1eb624a2d9aa?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/tolmo-research-engineer-ai-security/

## About the role

Our product is only as good as our agents' judgment. As a Research Engineer on AI Security, you make that judgment better and measurably so: how our agents plan, reason over a graph of a customer's production system, decide what is worth testing, and know when a finding is real. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- Hands-on experience building, evaluating, or improving LLM-based agents or systems in production
- A rigorous, empirical approach: you design experiments, distrust single anecdotes, and let the evals decide
- Strong engineering skills: you write production-quality code (Python, TypeScript, or Go) and build tools other people rely on
- A working understanding of security, or a strong drive to learn it fast: how real systems are attacked and how findings are validated
- Familiarity with LLM security risks such as prompt injection, jailbreaks, and tool misuse
- You build with AI coding agents daily (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) and have opinions about what makes them reliable

Tags: Engineering

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