Antigen

Continuous offensive security for the enterprise.

Security Researcher

$150K - $220K0.50% - 1.00%San Francisco, CA, US
Job type
Full-time
Role
Engineering, Devops
Experience
1+ years
Visa
US citizen/visa only
Skills
Information Security, Software Security, AI Agents
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Abdullah Nauman
Abdullah Nauman
Founder

About the role

Antigen builds cybersecurity agents and the infrastructure to safely deploy and scale them in enterprise and government environments. Using open-source models and partnerships with frontier labs, we're pushing the frontier of what cyber agents can do.

We're looking for security researchers to join us full-time in San Francisco. You'll be an expert-in-the-loop - driving our agents into real environments, finding where they break down, and collaborating with our research team to make them more capable.

Day to day, this means deploying our agent (tCell) against complex systems, observing how it chains attacks and where it gets stuck, stepping in where it lacks understanding, and turning that into research that improves the agent. You should be a strong offensive security practitioner who's genuinely curious about how AI agents behave in adversarial settings.

We're backed by YC, Lightspeed, Susa Ventures, and DST Global.

About Antigen

Antigen is an AI adversary for the enterprise. It maps, exploits, and secures your attack surface through nightly automated offensive testing and monthly human red team assessments. Every finding is delivered with traces, reproduction steps, and remediation directly in GitHub, Linear, or the Antigen Platform.

We work with companies in financial services, healthcare, retail, and government where security is trust.

We're backed by Lightspeed, DST Global, and Susa Ventures.

Antigen
Founded:2026
Batch:F25
Team Size:5
Status:
Active
Location:San Francisco
Founders
Saad Jamal
Saad Jamal
CTO
Abdullah Nauman
Abdullah Nauman
Founder