Horizon3AI
Director of Engineering, Webapp & AI Attack
$290K–$340K
US, Remote · Remote · Director · Full-time · Posted Oct 26, 2026
- Experience
- No specific years stated; significant software engineering leadership experience and experience leading multiple teams are requested.
- Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads the Webapp and AI Attack engineering portfolio, turning offensive security research into reliable, customer-facing NodeZero capabilities.
What you'll do
- Set portfolio strategy and roadmap, and lead, develop, and grow engineering teams and managers.
- Guide web application discovery and testing capabilities and productize safe, repeatable AI and agentic-system security assessments.
- Partner across Product, Engineering, Platform, and customer-facing teams to deliver, monitor, and improve production capabilities.
What they ask for
- Significant experience leading software engineering teams building customer-facing products.
- Experience leading multiple teams and developing managers and senior technical leaders.
- Strong technical judgment in software architecture, automation, distributed systems, and production operations.
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
- Direct leadership experience across web application security and AI/LLM security, or deep expertise in one area and ability to build leadership in the other.
- Experience with web crawling, browser automation, AI/LLM security capabilities, or related frameworks and tools.
Pay
$290,000-$340,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, TypeScript, Go, CI/CD, AWS, Azure, GCP, PostgreSQL
AI focus
Lead strategy and teams building safe, reliable, repeatable security assessments for AI/LLM applications and agentic systems, including evaluation of prompt injection, unsafe tool use, and AI supply-chain or deployment risks.
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