About the role
We're building autonomous AI agents that find and verify real security vulnerabilities the kind that used to require a senior pentester and a week of work. We're a YC W26 company with ~$1M ARR in a few weeks, top-tier investors, and top customers.
We need engineers who are cracked at AI, infrastructure security, and TypeScript. You'll be shipping systems that orchestrate agents across sandboxed environments, process untrusted code at scale, and deliver verified findings that security teams actually trust.
What you'll do:
Design and build the core platform. Agent orchestration, verification pipelines, and the infrastructure that ties it all together. Ship production features end-to-end: you own it from architecture to deployment. Work across our stack: Temporal workflows, Kubernetes, Nomad Clusters, sandboxed execution environments. Solve hard distributed systems problems like scheduling, isolation, fault tolerance, encryption. Collaborate directly with founders and customers to shape what we build next.
What we're looking for:
An overall cracked individual. Strong in TypeScript and/or Python, you write clean code and you ship fast. Comfort with cloud infrastructure (GCP/AWS) and containerized environments. You've debugged something at 2am that wasn't your fault and fixed it anyway. You default to ownership. If something's broken, you fix it. If something's missing, you build it. Your entire life has to be this company.
Nice to have:
Experience with AI/LLM agent systems, tool-use patterns, or multi-step orchestration. Background in security, offensive tooling, or working with untrusted inputs. Familiarity with Temporal, Kubernetes, or sandbox technologies (E2B, gVisor, bubblewrap). You've built something from zero that people actually use.
About Hex Security
Hex Security (now rebranded as Parameter) is an agentic offensive security company that builds AI agents to autonomously run continuous penetration tests against web applications, APIs, and infrastructure. Instead of traditional once-a-year pentests, their agents operate 24/7 to find, chain, and validate critical vulnerabilities with reproduction steps and remediation guidance. The company is a Y Combinator W26 batch member based in San Francisco.
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Job details
Salary
$130,000 - $250,000
Location
San Francisco, CA
Experience
0+ years
Funding
Last stage
Pre-seed
Investors
Founders
What happens next.
No applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
Confirm the fit
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I pitch you to the company
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
A meeting lands on your calendar
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.