Senior Security Engineer, Agentic AI

Who We Are Founded in 2012 by 3 expert hackers with no investment capital, Trail of Bits is the premier place for security experts to boldly advance security and address technology’s newest and most challenging risks. It has helped secure some of the world's most targeted organizations and devices. Our combination of novel research with practical solutions reduces the security risks that our clients face from emerging technologies. Our work helps drive the security industry and the public understanding of the technology underlying our world.

Cybersecurity preparedness is a moving target. Companies like ours are the tip of the spear in the fight against attackers. Our research-based and custom-engineering approach ensures that our client’s capabilities are at the forefront of what’s available. For companies and technologies that live and die by their security, a proactive, tailored approach is required to keep one step ahead of attackers.

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Role Trail of Bits seeks a Senior Security Engineer specializing in Agentic AI Security for our Software Assurance team. You will discover and exploit novel vulnerabilities in agentic AI systems — finding the breaks before your clients do. You'll develop sophisticated prompt injection attacks, test agent orchestration weaknesses, and identify real-world failure modes in LLM tool use, training data pipelines, and guardrail mechanisms. You will identify and analyze novel attack vectors specific to AI and agentic environments, focusing on real-world failure modes, system integration issues, and unauthorized access vectors. This role allows you to apply application security expertise and adversarial thinking to the late...