Accelerate Your Career in Cybersecurity!
Join Pentera and take your career to the next level in cybersecurity. As a leader in Automated Security Validation, we help businesses around the world safely emulate real-world attacks to uncover their vulnerabilities, just like the world's best red teams. At Pentera, you will be at the forefront of cybersecurity innovation, working on advanced tools that challenge organizations' defenses and push the limits of security testing.
With over 350 team members and 1,300 customers in more than 60 countries, Pentera is a growing company supported by top investors such as Insight Partners, K1, and The Blackstone Group.
If you want to grow your skills, make an impact, and be part of an innovative team, Pentera is the place for you.
About the role:
Pentera is looking for a Senior Data & AI Engineer to join a new and growing Data & AI function. You'll work hands-on with models and data architecture, with direct impact on both product-facing AI capabilities and internal data infrastructure. This is a deeply technical role: you'll take ML models from research through production, design scalable pipelines, and collaborate closely with R&D and Product to solve real security problems with AI.
Responsibilities:
- Design and implement data architecture, pipelines, and governance foundations
- Develop and deploy ML models into production (not just POCs), focusing on areas like vulnerability detection, attack emulation, and security insights
- Own model lifecycle end to end: research and experimentation, production deployment, monitoring, and iteration
- Partner with Product and R&D to identify and execute high-impact AI use cases within Pentera's platform
- Evaluate build vs. buy vs. fine-tune decisions for AI capabilities
- Define and maintain data quality standards and access policies
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in ML, AI, or Data Science, with real production deployments (not just research or POCs)
- Strong background in data modeling, data pipelines, and infrastructure design
- Comfortable context-switching between writing code and communicating technical decisions to stakeholders
- Comfortable operating with ambiguity and working in a fast-moving environment
Nice to have:
- Experience in cybersecurity or security-adjacent domains
- Familiarity with LLMs, NLP, and GenAI in production environments
- Experience at a startup (Series B-D stage)
- Background in building analytics or BI alongside AI
We are an equal opportunity employer and we are committed to building a diverse and talented workforce. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, religion, colour, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, medical condition, disability, or any other class or characteristic protected by applicable law. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds to join us!
Skills Required
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in machine learning, artificial intelligence, or data science
- Experience deploying machine learning models into production
- Strong background in data modeling, data pipelines, and infrastructure design
- Ability to write code and communicate technical decisions to stakeholders
- Ability to operate with ambiguity in a fast-moving environment
- Experience in cybersecurity or security-adjacent domains
- Production experience with LLMs, NLP, or generative AI
- Startup experience, particularly at Series B-D stage
- Experience building analytics or business intelligence alongside AI
Pentera Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Pentera and has not been reviewed or approved by Pentera.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay ranges and third-party salary snapshots are presented for multiple roles (e.g., senior backend engineering and SDR/AEs), suggesting compensation is positioned as competitive and legible by role. Aggregate compensation-and-benefits ratings are described as strong, reinforcing an overall positive pay signal.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company matching is repeatedly listed as part of the package, indicating support for long-term savings. Retirement coverage is also referenced in “retirement plans” language in job-post style descriptions.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Company equity/stock options are explicitly included in the total rewards description, indicating ownership-based compensation beyond salary. Equity is framed as part of a broader “comprehensive total rewards package,” implying it is a standard component rather than an exception.
Pentera Insights
What We Do
Pentera is the leader for Automated Security Validation, allowing every organization to test with ease the integrity of all cybersecurity layers, unfolding true, current security exposures at any moment, at any scale. As a result, thousands of security professionals and service providers worldwide use our platform to guide remediation and close security gaps before they are exploited. We are a unicorn with more than 380 employees around the globe, with over 1,000 customers in production in more than 60 countries! Pentera has won various Industry Awards, including the Frost & Sullivan “Best Practices Award for Global Breach & Attack Simulation (BAS) Market Leadership 2022 and the 2020 Gartner Cool Vendor Award. We are backed by Top tier investors such as Insight Partners, K1 Investment Management, The Blackstone Group, and AWZ. Penterians are one team with a shared mission. Become a Penterian – change the way the world does cyber!
Why Work With Us
We believe that Penetration Testing (PT), as it stands today, is obsolete. Software and algorithms can do a better job at penetration testing and help businesses continually assess and improve their cyber risks using the threat-oriented approach.
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