Company Overview: Are you ready to disrupt the status quo in pursuit of something more? At Praetorian, we are bringing together the world's brightest minds in pursuit of solving the cybersecurity problem and creating the next wave of innovation. From cryptocurrency exchanges to autonomous vehicles, we apply expertise and engineering to identify, mitigate and ultimately solve our customer's challenges. Our accolades include Inc’s Best Places to Work and Fastest Growing Companies for 7 years running. 

Position Overview: From software hacking to hardware hacking, we help secure everything from cryptocurrency exchanges and space telescopes to autonomous vehicles and the electric grid. Today, Praetorian is making significant investments in terms of financial and engineering resources to develop a radically new customer experience we call “Security-as-a-Service” to provide customers with a unified, efficient, and data-driven security platform. We are looking to add the right individual to our growing team supporting the next wave of cybersecurity products and solutions focusing on helping our machine learning team understand the details of how static analysis works to find vulnerabilities in source code.

Career opportunity:

• Join an industry with massive socio, economic, and political importance in the 21st century
• Partner with prominent clients and help them solve hard security problems
• Work alongside some of the best and the brightest minds in the security industry
• Leave an indelible mark on a company where a persons input has a real impact
• Be recognized, internally and publicly, for your contributions in a high profile position
• Align your career trajectory with a hyper-growth company that is on the move
• Be part of the initial team designing and building out this product
• Work alongside some of the best minds in Machine Learning to help them build models that find security vulnerabilities better than standard static analysis 

Qualifications:

• Fluent in static analysis, pointer analysis, and taint analysis
• Fluent in data and control flow analysis
• Fluent with system and program dependency graphs
• Fluent in programming languages, abstract representations, and compiler theory
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or computer engineering

Desired qualifications:

• Experience and interest in identifying security vulnerabilities in source code
• Experience and interest in machine learning
• Experience with a variety of programming languages and typing disciplines
• Experience with modern technology stacks and development practices
• Understanding of statistics and data analysis
• Masters or PhD in computer science or computer engineering

Desired behaviors:

• Ability to self-direct work and truly own the position in a hyper-growth environment
• Ability to maintain high levels of output and work ethic
• Relentless restlessness to turn theory into practice and develop production worthy code that solves real-world customer problems
• Resolve to always learn and improve and never rest on ones laurels
• A personable person who enjoys working in a team-oriented environment
• Comfort dealing with ambiguity in an environment where we build the plane as we fly it
• Ability to work within constraints and to test the status quo

Compensation & Benefits:

• Comp banding: 180K-220K
• Employee stock option plan
• Annual budget for training, certifications, and conferences
• 16 weeks of fully paid maternity and paternity leave
• 90% employee coverage and 60% dependent coverage on health insurance premiums
• 100% employee coverage and 60% dependent coverage on dental and vision insurance premiums
• 4% company 401K matching vested immediately 

In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will need to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the needed employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.

We are committed to an inclusive and diverse Praetorian.  We are an equal opportunity employer.  We do not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other legally protected status.

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