Director of Engineering for Webapp and AI Attack

Organization Leadership & Strategy:

• Lead and develop the Webapp and AI Attack engineering teams, setting clear ownership, goals, and expectations.
• Define a coherent strategy and roadmap connecting customer needs, product priorities, offensive research, and durable engineering investments.
• Build an effective leadership structure as the organization grows, hiring and coaching engineering managers and technical leaders.

Webapp Attack Capabilities:

• Set direction for NodeZero's web application attack portfolio, spanning application discovery, crawling, and browser automation.
• Ensure reliable mapping of pages, forms, APIs, parameters, and authentication surfaces across modern applications, including SPAs.
• Partner with technical leaders to improve attack coverage and establish benchmarks to prevent quality degradation.

AI Attack Capabilities:

• Set strategy for turning AI/LLM and agentic-system security research into safe, repeatable attack capabilities in NodeZero.
• Guide teams in assessing AI applications, trust boundaries, permissions, tool use, data sources, and deployment patterns.
• Establish quality standards for testing, reliability, observability, cost management, and operational readiness.

Product, Delivery & Technical Leadership:

• Partner with Product and Engineering leaders to translate ambiguous opportunities into sequenced plans with explicit outcomes.
• Drive complex, cross-team initiatives from planning through production, identifying dependencies and risks early.
• Maintain technical depth to evaluate architecture and system health while enabling senior ICs to own implementation.