Graduate Software Engineer

About the role

NetSPI+Synack is a leader in offensive security, combining elite human expertise with agentic AI to help organizations identify, validate, prioritize, and remediate exploitable risk across their entire attack surface. Its platform delivers expert-validated testing in depth, continuously, or on demand, from pre-production code to live production environments, so security teams can separate vulnerability noise from real risk, including the growing threat of AI-driven attacks. With global reach and more than 13 million hours of real-world offensive testing experience, NetSPI+Synack serves many of the world's largest enterprises and government organizations with one ambition: nothing left to exploit.

We are looking for individuals with a collaborative, innovative, and customer-first mindset to join our team. Learn more about our award-winning workplace culture and get to know our A-Team at www.netspi.com/careers and www.synack.com/careers.

We are looking for a Graduate Software Engineer (AI), where you'll take a hands-on lead in designing and building cutting-edge, AI-centric systems tailored for the offensive security sector. You will directly drive product innovation at the intersection of AI and cybersecurity.

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Here’s what you'll do

- Design, implement and deliver scalable AI-centric software systems

- Help to drive the development of agentic AI capabilities for identifying vulnerabilities, automating penetration testing processes, workflow optimization and enhancing threat intelligence.

- Own and drive the end-to-end development of product features from ideation to production deployment and monitoring.

- Actively contribute to and drive the design and implementation of AI-enabled systems, promoting effective SDLC processes.

- Be involved in technical discussions, code reviews and design sessions, sharing your expertise to uplift the team's capabilities.

- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to integrate AI capabilities into broader systems and applications.

Here’s what you’ll need

- A degree in a computing/technology discipline.

- ~1yr of work/internship experience relevant to this role.

- 3yrs hands-on experience with Python/Go

- Some experience with AI technologies, e.g. LLMs, RAG, MCP, etc.

- Some grasp of token usage optimisation and LLM cost optimisation techniques.

- Strong experience and understanding of microservices, REST API design, gRPC, writing unit testing, BDD testing.

- Strong design skills required – UML is a bonus; exposure to Domain Driven Design desirable.

- Some experience with asynchronous messaging technologies such as Google PubSub, Kafka.

- In depth knowledge of NoSQL and RDBMS technologies.

- Strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Environments (GCP preferred).

- Experience working on agile teams.

- Excellent communication and collaboration skills in all mediums.

- Experience working on and scaling a microservice-based application.

- A proven ability to thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts.

Ready to join us?

Synack is committed to embracing diversity. Our people are our strength. Each addition to our team is an opportunity to grow and diversify our ideas, experiences, and viewpoints. Synack strives to be inclusive of all people.

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This position has responsibility to ensure Synack’s security and privacy posture is maintained.

Salary is determined by a combination of factors including location, level, relevant experience, and skills. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target for new hire salaries for the position across all US locations. The compensation package for this position may also include equity, and benefits.

For more details about our benefits, please see our benefits overview. Then for the Employer code, enter: synack

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