Appknox

A BIT ABOUT US

Appknox is one of the top Mobile Application security companies recognized by Gartner and G2. A profitable B2B SaaS startup headquartered in Singapore & working from Bengaluru.

The primary goal of Appknox is to help businesses and mobile developers secure their mobile applications with a focus on delivery speed and high-quality security audits.

Appknox has helped secure mobile apps at Fortune 500 companies with major brands spread across regions like India, South-East Asia, Middle-East, US, and expanding rapidly. We have secured 300+ Enterprises globally.

We are a 60+ incredibly passionate team working to make an impact and helping some of the biggest companies globally. We work in a highly collaborative, very fast-paced work environment. If you have what it takes to be part of the team, we are excited and let’s speak further.

The Opportunity

Appknox AI is building next-generation AI-powered security analysis tools for mobile applications. We use multi-agent systems and large language models to automate complex security workflows that traditionally require manual expert analysis.

We're looking for an AI/ML Engineer who will focus on improving our AI system quality, optimizing prompts, and building evaluation frameworks. You'll work with our engineering team to make our AI systems more accurate, efficient, and reliable.

This is NOT a data scientist role. We need someone who builds production AI systems with LLMs and agent frameworks.

Key Focus:

Primary Focus: AI System Quality 

  - Prompt Engineering: Design and optimize prompts for complex reasoning tasks

  - Quality Improvement: Reduce false positives and improve accuracy of AI-generated outputs

  - Evaluation Frameworks: Build systems to measure and monitor AI quality metrics

  - Tool Development: Create utilities and tools that enhance AI capabilities

  Secondary Focus: Performance & Optimization 

  - Cost Optimization: Implement strategies to reduce LLM API costs (caching, batching, model  selection)

  - Metrics & Monitoring: Track system performance, latency, accuracy, and cost

  - Research & Experimentation: Evaluate new models and approaches

  - Documentation: Create best practices and guidelines for the team

Requirements:

• 2-4 years of professional software engineering experience with Python as primary language
• 1+ years working with LangChain, LangGraph, or similar agent frameworks (AutoGPT, CrewAI, etc.)
• Production LLM experience: You've shipped products using OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, or similar APIs
• Prompt engineering skills: You understand how to structure prompts for complex multi-step reasoning
• Strong Python: Async/await, type hints, Pydantic, modern Python practices
• Problem-solving mindset: You debug systematically and iterate based on data

Good to Have skill-set:

•   Experience with vector search (LanceDB, Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant)
•   Knowledge of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) patterns
•   Background in security or mobile application development
•   Understanding of static/dynamic analysis tools

 What We're NOT Looking For:

•   Only academic/tutorial LLM experience (we need production systems)
•   Pure ML research focus (we're not training foundation models)
•   Data analyst/BI background without engineering depth
•   No experience with LLM APIs or agent frameworks

  Our Tech Stack:

  AI/ML Infrastructure:

•   Agent Frameworks: LangChain, LangGraph
•   LLMs: Google Gemini (primary), with multi-model support
•   Observability: Langfuse, DeepEval
•   Vector Search: LanceDB, Tantivy
•   Embeddings: Hybrid approach (local + cloud APIs)

  Platform & Infrastructure:

•   Orchestration: Prefect 3.x, Docker, Kubernetes
•   Storage: S3-compatible object storage, PostgreSQL
•   Languages: Python 3.11+
•   Testing: pytest with parallel execution support

Work Expectations & Success Metrics:

Within 1 Month (Onboarding)

- Understand AI system architecture and workflows

- Review existing prompts and evaluation methods 

- Run analyses and identify improvement areas 

- Collaborate on initial optimizations

Within 3 Months (Initial Contributions)

- Own prompt engineering for specific components 

- Build evaluation datasets and quality metrics 

- Implement tools that extend AI capabilities 

- Contribute to performance optimization experiments

Within 6 Months (Independent Ownership)

- Lead quality metrics implementation and monitoring 

- Drive prompt optimization initiatives 

- Improve evaluation frameworks

- Research and prototype new capabilities

Within 1 Year (Expanded Scope)

- Mentor team members on best practices 

- Lead optimization projects (caching, batching, cost reduction)

- Influence architectural decisions 

- Build reusable libraries and internal frameworks

 Interview Process:

• Round 0 Interview - Profile Evaluation (15 min)
• Round 1 Interview - Take Home Assignment
• Round 2 Interview - Technical Deep-Dive (90 min)
• Round 3 Interview- Team Fit (45 min)
• Round 4 Interview- HR Round ( 30 min)

Why Join Appknox AI?

Impact & Growth

Work on cutting-edge AI agent systems that power real-world enterprise security. You’ll collaborate with experienced engineers across AI, security, and infrastructure while gaining deep expertise in LangGraph, agent systems, and prompt engineering. As we scale, you’ll have clear opportunities to grow into senior and staff-level roles.

Team & Culture

Join a small, focused product-engineering team that values code quality, collaboration, and knowledge sharing. We’re in a hybrid set-up - based out of Banaglore, flexible, and committed to a sustainable pace - no crunch, no chaos.

Technology

Built with a modern Python stack (3.11+, async, type hints, Pydantic) and the latest AI/ML tools including LangChain, LangGraph, DeepEval, and Langfuse. Ship production-grade features that make a real impact for customers.

Compensation & Benefits:

Competitive Package

We offer strong compensation designed to reward impact.

Flexibility & Lifestyle

Hybrid work setup and enjoy generous time off. You’ll get top-tier hardware and the tools you need to do your best work.

Learning & Development

Access a substantial learning budget, attend major AI/ML conferences, explore new approaches during dedicated research time, and share your knowledge with the team.

Health & Wellness

Comprehensive health coverage, fitness subscription, and family-friendly policies.

Early-Stage Advantages

Help shape the culture, influence product direction, and work directly with founders. Move fast, ship quickly, and see your impact immediately.

Appknox, founded in 2014, is a globally recognized mobile application security testing platform trusted by enterprises in 15+ countries. Supported by a strong team of 60+ specialists, our platform delivers deep security insights, automated testing, and continuous monitoring to organizations with critical security needs.

We’re looking for a Director of Sales to lead our enterprise revenue function across all regions - with a particular focus on accelerating growth in the US market.

What You Will Own

📌 Revenue & Pipeline

• Own global enterprise revenue, with primary focus on the US
• Build and maintain a predictable pipeline across inbound and outbound motions
• Drive forecasting accuracy, deal reviews, and revenue governance
• Improve win rates, strengthen qualification frameworks, and optimize sales velocity

📌 Team Leadership & Coaching

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing sales team (pods, SDRs, AEs)
• Build a culture of accountability, high performance, and continuous learning
• Coach the team on enterprise selling, negotiation, and multi-stakeholder engagements
• Set and enforce clear KPIs, performance standards, and operating rhythms

📌 GTM, Sales Enablement & Cross-Functional Strategy

• Partner with Marketing to align top-of-funnel quality, campaigns, and messaging
• Work with Product & Engineering to channel customer insights into roadmap decisions
• Build and refine sales playbooks, messaging guides, qualification models (MEDDIC/BANT), competitive frameworks, and objection handling
• Strengthen sales enablement - onboarding, continuous training, competitive intelligence, content readiness, and deal support
• Collaborate with SalesOps on Hubspot CRM hygiene, reporting accuracy, forecasting discipline, and tooling
• Ensure seamless alignment across Sales, CS, Product, and Marketing

📌 Operational Excellence

• Implement best-in-class sales processes and governance
• Improve sales efficiency across the funnel through data, insights, and process optimization
• Introduce mechanisms to increase accountability, speed of execution, and deal quality
• Establish a predictable, repeatable, and scalable sales engine

What We're Looking For

📌 Experience & Leadership

• 8 - 10 years in B2B SaaS or enterprise tech sales
• Minimum 2 - 3 years leading and scaling sales teams
• Demonstrated ability to drive $5M+ annual enterprise revenue (preferably $10M+)
• Experience managing both inbound and outbound sales motions
• Strong exposure to US enterprise sales cycles - mandatory

📌 Industry & Deal Expertise

• Deep experience in enterprise sales - mandatory
• Background in cybersecurity, deep tech, or complex technical products is preferred
• Experience with VAR, multi-product, or consultative enterprise sales is a plus

📌 Geography & Market Exposure

• Must be based in Bangalore (or willing to relocate)
• Comfortable leading revenue across global regions, with US as primary focus

Who You Are

• A strategic operator with strong bias for execution
• Exceptional coach and people leader
• Data-driven, structured, and strong on process
• Skilled communicator with executive presence
• Thrives in high-growth, high-accountability environments
• Comfortable influencing cross-functionally and navigating enterprise complexity

Compensation

• As per Industry Standards

Why Join Us

• Freedom & Responsibility: If you are a person who enjoys challenging work & pushing your boundaries, then this is the right place for you. We appreciate new ideas & ownership as well as flexibility with working hours.
• Great Salary & Equity: We keep up with the market standards & provide pay packages considering updated standards. Also as Appknox continues to grow, you’ll have a great opportunity to earn more & grow with us. Moreover, we also provide equity options for our top performers.
• Holistic Growth: We foster a culture of continuous learning and take a much more holistic approach to training and developing our assets: the employees. We shall also support you all on that journey of yours.
• Transparency: Being a part of a start-up is an amazing experience one of the reasons being the open communication & transparency at multiple levels. Working with Appknox will give you the opportunity to experience it all first hand.
• Health insurance: We offer health insurance coverage upto 5 Lacs for you and your family including parents.

A BIT ABOUT US

Appknox is one of the top Mobile Application security companies recognized by Gartner and G2. A profitable B2B SaaS startup headquartered in Singapore & working from Bengaluru.

The primary goal of Appknox is to help businesses and mobile developers secure their mobile applications with a focus on delivery speed and high-quality security audits.

Appknox has helped secure mobile apps at Fortune 500 companies with Major brands spread across regions like India, South-East Asia, Middle-East, US, and expanding rapidly. We have secured 300+ Enterprises globally.

We are a 30+ incredibly passionate team working to make an impact and help some of the biggest companies globally. We work in a highly collaborative, very fast-paced work environment. If you have what it takes to be part of the team, we are excited, and let’s speak further.

The Opportunity

To join the security team engaging with multiple clients, helping them with end-to-end security audits, also researching new topics and vulnerabilities to be added to the scanner, present research at conferences.

What An Ideal Candidate Would Look Like: 

• Anyone pursuing their graduation or post-graduation related to IT security 
• Skills - Application Penetration Testing, 
• Knowledge or experience of IoT testing, and source code audits are plus points
• Responsibilities: Engage with clients for scoping call, perform security audits, and remediation call with clients to patch the issues

Minimum Requirements

• Must be comfortable with tools like burp suite, nmap, sqlmap, r2 etc
• Strong Analytical Skills
• Strong grasp of fundamentals of information security
• Strong Grasp of Web, API and mobile Pen-Testing
• Self-taught learner willing to read and keep up-to-date on technological changes and how they could be used
• Can accurately define an issue and create detailed Proof-of-concept and write-up of the findings.
• Provide appropriate remediation and mitigations of the identified vulnerabilities.
• Basic understanding of cloud platforms like AWS or GCP. Security knowledge in this domain is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Security assessment of web and mobile applications.
• Understand and explain the results with impact on business and compliance status
• Continuously learning and training on latest tools and techniques

Personality traits we really admire

• A confident and dynamic working persona, which can bring fun to the team, and a sense of humor, is an added advantage.
• Great attitude to ask questions, learn and suggest process improvements.
• Has attention to details and helps identify edge cases.
• Highly motivated and coming up with fresh ideas and perspectives to help us move towards our goals faster.
• Follow timelines and absolute commitment to deadlines.

Interview Process 

• Round 1 CTF Round - Profile and skill Evaluation
• Round 2 - Technical Interview with security team member
• Round 3 - Technical Interview with the Team Lead
• Round 4 - HR Round

 Why Join Us

• Great Stipend& PPO: We keep up with the market standards & provide stipend/pay packages considering updated standards. Also as Appknox continues to grow, you’ll have a great opportunity to earn more & grow with us. Moreover, we also PPO for our top interns.
• Freedom & Responsibility: If you are a person who enjoys challenging work & pushing your boundaries, then this is the right place for you. We appreciate new ideas & ownership as well as flexibility with working hours.
• Holistic Growth: We foster a culture of continuous learning and take a much more holistic approach to train and develop our assets: the employees. We shall also support you all on that journey of yours.
• Transparency: Being a part of a start-up is an amazing experience, one of the reasons being open communication & transparency at multiple levels. Working with Appknox will give you the opportunity to experience it all first-hand.

A BIT ABOUT US

Appknox is one of the top Mobile Application security companies recognized by Gartner and G2. A profitable B2B SaaS startup headquartered in Singapore & working from Bengaluru.

The primary goal of Appknox is to help businesses and mobile developers secure their mobile applications with a focus on delivery speed and high-quality security audits.

Appknox has helped secure mobile apps at Fortune 500 companies with Major brands spread across regions like India, South-East Asia, Middle-East, US, and expanding rapidly. We have secured 300+ Enterprises globally.

We are a 40+ incredibly passionate team working to make an impact and helping some of the biggest companies globally. We work in a highly collaborative, very fast-paced work environment. If you have what it takes to be part of the team, we are excited and let’s speak further.

The Opportunity

The Sales team @Appknox is one of the most active and agile teams in the organisation. With multiple channels to penetrate the global markets, the team is a right mix of dynamic ,aggressive and experienced professionals added with a go getter attitude. The team interacts with the CXOs and leadership teams of global firms and has closed high value deals including Fortune 500 / 100 Enterprises. This role provides the candidate with an opportunity to own, learn and grow along with the organization scaling new heights in both professional and personal grounds. 

What An Ideal Candidate Would Look Like: 

• 4-5 years of experience in End to End Enterprise sales in a SaaS company/IT company.
• The candidate will be resourceful enough to set-up processes and working methods, strategic enough to provide thought leadership and execution oriented enough to build a robust pipeline
• Highly Proactive, Open to Feedback and has growth mindset 
• Willing to generate pipeline on their own and works closely with the SDR team sharing best practices and regional intel 
• Relevant experience in a cyber security company building a strong sales pipeline is good to have

Requirements:

• Advanced skill set for gathering requirements, writing SOWs, documenting RFI/RFPs, and submitting commercial proposals
• Understands and drives BANT/MEDDPICC/MEDDICC on deals 
• Has experience with Outbound and is willing to drive his/her pipeline 
• Expertise in working on executive presentations and other sales and marketing-focused automation tools is a plus.
•  Has worked on a HubSpot/Salesforce CRM at his previous organization and also has a good idea about CRM Hygiene. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to persuade, influence, negotiate, and make formal presentations in meetings and training environments
• Open to working in shift timings, if required

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive end-to-end sales cycles, including lead generation, sales presentations, technology demonstrations, commercial proposal submissions, contract negotiations, and revenue generation.
• Develop a consulting and a trusted advisory relationship with client stakeholders and executive sponsors.
• Proactively assess, clarify, and validate client needs on an ongoing basis and convert client needs into enterprise contracts to meet sales quota/target
• Work cross-functionally with the the business development, marketing, delivery, and finance teams to ensure the timely and successful delivery of solutions that meet client needs and objectives.
• Analyze the latest marketing trends using CRM and analytics tools, tracking competitors' activities and providing valuable inputs for fine-tuning marketing strategies.
• Go the extra mile to make it an excellent experience for the client and build a great organization with a get-things-done attitude

Interview Process:

Round 1: Profile Evaluation by HR

Round 2: Assignment (Call script)

Round 3: Interview with Head of Sales

Round 4: Assignment Demo of call script product

Round 5: Expectation Setting

Round 6: Salary negotiation/work culture fit by HR

Compensation:

As per Industry Standards

Why Join Us:

• Responsibility: If you enjoy challenging work and pushing your boundaries, this is the right place for you. 
• Great Salary & Equity: We keep up with the market standards & provide pay packages considering updated standards. Also, as Appknox continues to grow, you’ll have a great opportunity to earn more & grow with us. Moreover, we also provide equity options for our top performers.
• Holistic Growth: We foster a culture of continuous learning and take a much more holistic approach to training and developing our assets: the employees. We shall also support you all on that journey of yours.
• Transparency: Being part of a start-up is an amazing experience, one of the reasons being the open communication and transparency at multiple levels. Working with Appknox will give you the opportunity to experience it all firsthand.
• Health insurance and Cult live: We offer health insurance coverage up to 5 lacs for you and your family, including your parents. Cult live membership for all team members who are looking at fitness.