# Research Engineer, AI Security at Tolmo

- Company: Tolmo
- Status: Open
- Workplace: Hybrid
- Location: San Francisco · Remote
- Level: Mid-level
- Discipline: AI & ML
- Employment: Full-time
- Posted: 2026-11-02
- Skills: Engineering
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/tolmo/f08cb48e-4950-416b-9f75-1eb624a2d9aa

## Description

ABOUT TOLMO

Tolmo is cybersecurity for the age of AI. Coding agents now ship software faster than any human team can review or secure it; 100+ pull requests per engineer per week is no longer an outlier, and attackers are using the same agents to find and exploit weaknesses in days, not months. The old playbook of quarterly pentests and endless alert queues breaks at this speed.

We're building a new security playbook. Tolmo runs a fleet of AI security agents that reason over a live graph of your entire production system (code, CI, cloud, and telemetry) and continuously attack a faithful copy of it like a real adversary. Every finding arrives validated, with its blast radius and a remediation plan that lands in your workflow, ready for a coding agent to fix. Hours to integrate, days to your first validated finding.

We've done this before: Tolmo's founders built Sqreen (acquired by Datadog) and led security products that thousands of organizations trusted. We're backed by Accel and Y Combinator and just getting started.


THE ROLE

Our product is only as good as our agents' judgment. As a Research Engineer on AI Security, you make that judgment better and measurably so: how our agents plan, reason over a graph of a customer's production system, decide what is worth testing, and know when a finding is real.

This sits between research and engineering. In one week you might design an eval that catches a new class of false positive, change how an agent plans a multi-step investigation, compare models on a hard benchmark, and harden the agents themselves against prompt injecti

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