We're building autonomous AI agents that break web applications before real attackers do—and we need our Founding Engineer. Most security tools throw a wall of theoretical, static false positives at developers. We’re building Haven (rootline labs): a self-hosted AI penetration testing platform where coordinated agents run persistent recon, write working Proof-of-Concept (PoC) exploits, and chain minor flaws into full exploit paths. The role

This isn't a slice of a larger engineering org you'd be building the core of the product itself. You'll own the multi-agent layer: coordinating specialized agents (recon, exploitation, post-exploitation) so they hand off findings to each other and escalate a chain of small issues into a real exploit path, and pushing that toward an always-on model persistent parallel agents running continuously, not one-off scans kicked off by a CLI command. What you'll do

Design and build a multi-target, persistent agent orchestration layer

Design how agents coordinate — shared state, findings handoff, escalation logic

Build enterprise features: SSO, audit logging, compliance-ready reporting

Own the security logic itself — payload design,



exploit validation, false-positive reduction — not just the infrastructure around it

Ship rapid and alone, with minimal process You probably have Python at a real engineering level — services and tools shipped to users, not scripts

Hands-on experience building agents: tool/function calling, multi-agent state sharing, context management (via LangGraph, CrewAI, AutoGen, or a custom framework)

Real offensive security depth: OWASP Top 10 fluency, hands-on exploitation experience, comfort with Burp Suite, Nuclei, sqlmap, nmap

Docker-based sandboxing and CI/CD (GitHub Actions is fine) Mindset

High agency — no one's writing tickets for you, you decide and build

Genuinely into both halves of this role (AI agents and offensive security) — one without the other won't work here

Comfortable being the only engineer, with real ambiguity, for a while Nice to have

Basic exposure to SSO, audit logging, or RBAC — it's on the roadmap

Prior work on an autonomous security or AI-agent product, open source or commercial

📌 Founding Engineer Hyderabad
🏢 rootline labs
📍 Hyderabad