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. At Pentera, you'll be at the forefront of cybersecurity innovation, working on advanced AI-driven tools that revolutionize security testing through conversational interfaces and intelligent automation.
With over 350 team members and 1,000+ customers in more than 50 countries, Pentera is a growing company supported by top investors like Insight Partners, K1, and The Blackstone Group.
If you're looking to grow your skills, make a difference, and be part of an innovative team building the future of AI-powered cybersecurity, Pentera is the place for you.
About The Role
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Generative AI (GenAI) Engineer to join our team at Pentera. In this role, you will be instrumental in building and advancing our AI-driven cybersecurity testing platform, focusing on agentic flows and conversational AI interfaces that transform how security professionals interact with automated penetration testing tools.
You will work on cutting-edge AI technologies to implement our vision, where natural language conversations drive sophisticated adversarial testing scenarios. Your work will directly contribute to making cybersecurity testing more accessible, intelligent, and adaptable through multi-agent orchestration, real-time decision making, and contextual understanding of complex security environments.
As part of our team, you'll collaborate with top-tier professionals in both AI and cybersecurity domains, helping to evolve our platform into the next generation of conversational, AI-powered security validation tools.
Roles And Responsibilities
- Design and develop agentic AI systems (LangGraph/LangChain in Python or Spring AI in Java) for multi-step security workflows.
- Build conversational AI interfaces that convert natural language into executable attack scenarios.
- Implement AI-powered web testing for vulnerability discovery.
- Develop RAG systems and multi-agent orchestration by utilizing vector stores and integrating with foundation models using AWS Bedrock.
- Ensure safe, reliable AI testing with guardrails, evaluation, and clean, documented code.
- Take end-to-end responsibility for AI system development, from research and prototyping through deployment and monitoring in production environments.
- Stay updated with the latest advancements in generative AI, agentic systems, and cybersecurity AI applications, bringing fresh ideas and cutting-edge techniques to enhance our platform capabilities.
Requirements
- 5+ years of backend engineering experience, with emphasis on Python (preferred) and optionally Java
- Extensive experience with LangGraph and LangChain frameworks for building agentic AI systems and multi-agent orchestration.
- Experience with Large Language Models (LLMs), including prompt engineering, RAG implementations, and model evaluation techniques.
- Knowledge of multi-agent systems, including agent communication patterns, task decomposition, hierarchical planning, and collaborative problem-solving architectures.
- Experience designing RESTful APIs for service integration and microservices.
- Experience with relational and non-relational databases (preferably MongoDB and PostgreSQL) for managing AI-related data.
- Experience with vector databases and semantic search technologies for knowledge retrieval and context augmentation.
- Experience with containerization (Docker) and cloud-native deployment patterns for AI applications.
- B.Sc. in Computer Science, AI/ML, or related field
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with AWS Bedrock and AWS AI services, including model integration, customisation, and serverless deployment.
- Cybersecurity knowledge, including an understanding of penetration testing concepts, security vulnerabilities, and attack methodologies
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!
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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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