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 quick 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, wi

📌 Founding Engineer (Hyderabad)
🏢 rootline labs
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