Posted on 6 May 2026
Permanent
31400
Opportunity description
Job Title:
Head of Engineering - Detection & Response
Head of Engineering – Detection & Response
Location: Remote (U.S.-based preferred)
Stage: Early-Stage Venture-Backed Startup (Seed / Series A)
Team Size: ~10 Engineers, Scaling Rapidly (25-person company)
About the Company
Our client is an emerging cybersecurity startup building a next-generation platform focused on protecting organizations from sophisticated social engineering threats across modern communication channels.
The company is developing advanced detection and response technology that identifies manipulation, impersonation, and deceptive behavior in real time across voice, chat, email, and collaboration platforms. By combining AI, machine learning, behavioral analysis, and natural language processing, the platform helps security teams detect and respond to threats before damage occurs.
The product integrates with widely used enterprise systems and collaboration tools and is already gaining significant attention within the cybersecurity and innovation community.
This is an opportunity to join a highly technical, mission-driven team at a pivotal stage of growth and help define a new category within enterprise security.
What You’ll Do
Lead & Scale the Engineering Organization
What They’re Looking For
Why This Opportunity
Location: Remote (U.S.-based preferred)
Stage: Early-Stage Venture-Backed Startup (Seed / Series A)
Team Size: ~10 Engineers, Scaling Rapidly (25-person company)
About the Company
Our client is an emerging cybersecurity startup building a next-generation platform focused on protecting organizations from sophisticated social engineering threats across modern communication channels.
The company is developing advanced detection and response technology that identifies manipulation, impersonation, and deceptive behavior in real time across voice, chat, email, and collaboration platforms. By combining AI, machine learning, behavioral analysis, and natural language processing, the platform helps security teams detect and respond to threats before damage occurs.
The product integrates with widely used enterprise systems and collaboration tools and is already gaining significant attention within the cybersecurity and innovation community.
This is an opportunity to join a highly technical, mission-driven team at a pivotal stage of growth and help define a new category within enterprise security.
What You’ll Do
Lead & Scale the Engineering Organization
- Lead and grow an engineering team of approximately 8–10 engineers
- Mentor senior engineers and help develop future engineering leaders
- Foster a high-performance, collaborative engineering culture
- Partner closely with executive leadership on technical and organizational strategy
- Own engineering delivery and operational execution
- Ensure reliable delivery of production-quality software
- Implement processes that improve speed, quality, and scalability
- Identify and manage technical risks as the platform evolves
- Support the continued evolution of platform architecture and infrastructure
- Help guide development of advanced detection capabilities using technologies such as:
- AI/LLM-powered natural language analysis
- Behavioral and heuristic detection systems
- Machine learning–driven threat analysis
- Contribute to the design of systems built to adapt against evolving adversarial behavior
- Ensure detection models remain effective as threat patterns change over time
- Help define modern engineering workflows leveraging emerging AI development tools
- Stay technically engaged through architecture reviews and selective hands-on contribution
- Maintain a strong perspective on modern AI-enabled software development practices
- Translate customer and market problems into scalable technical solutions
- Collaborate with product and leadership teams on roadmap and technical direction
- Align engineering execution with customer and business priorities
What They’re Looking For
- Experience building detection and response systems in areas such as cybersecurity, fraud, abuse prevention, or other adversarial environments
- Proven experience leading and scaling engineering teams
- Strong software engineering and systems architecture background
- Experience working with AI and machine learning–driven products or platforms
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced early-stage startup environment
- Strong communication and cross-functional leadership skills
Why This Opportunity
- Chance to join a category-defining cybersecurity company at an early stage
- Opportunity to shape both the product and engineering organization from the ground up
- High-impact leadership role with direct influence on company direction
- Collaborative, technically ambitious team solving meaningful real-world problems
- Fully remote flexibility within the U.S.
