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As a Senior Software Engineer - MDASH, you will join the team to design, build, and evolve the MDASH scanning engine. Your primary responsibilities include developing agent orchestration, multi-model routing, vulnerability detection, and fix generation while extending coverage across various programming languages, frameworks, and build systems. You will integrate program analysis techniques like static and dynamic analysis, taint tracking, and fuzzing into agent workflows to improve precision and recall. The role requires building secure, observable systems with strong isolation for untrusted code on Azure. You must possess experience with large language models, AI agents, and security scanners. Required skills include proficiency in C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python, alongside deep knowledge of vulnerability classes like memory safety and injection.
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Design, build, and evolve the MDASH scanning engine including agent orchestration and multi-model routing.
Extend engine coverage across various vulnerability classes, programming languages, frameworks, and codebase sizes.
Integrate static and dynamic analysis techniques like taint tracking and fuzzing into agent workflows.
Improve engine precision, recall, and fix quality based on research findings and production feedback.
Optimize scan performance, scalability, cost, and latency for enterprise-scale codebases and CI/CD workflows.
Build a secure, observable engine with strong isolation for running untrusted code and clear telemetry.
Write high-quality, well-tested code and lead design and code reviews for the engineering team.
What we're looking for
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and 8+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python.
Master's degree in Computer Science and 6+ years of technical engineering experience coding in languages like C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, TypeScript, or Python.
Equivalent experience to the degree and years of experience requirements.
Experience building production systems with large language models, including AI agents, multi-agent orchestration, tool calling, planning, context management, or code-understanding systems.
Experience building or working on security scanners, static analysis (SAST), dynamic analysis (DAST), software composition analysis (SCA), compilers, or other program analysis tools.
Working knowledge of vulnerability classes such as memory safety, injection, authentication, authorization, deserialization, path traversal, SSRF, and business-logic flaws.
Experience with program analysis techniques such as taint analysis, data-flow and control-flow analysis, code property graphs, fuzzing, or symbolic execution.
Experience building distributed, high-scale cloud services on Azure, including containerized or sandboxed execution.