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 65+ 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.

Role Overview:

Appknox is expanding its Middle-East & South Africa team and is looking for a high performing Sales Development Representative based in India to build a qualified outbound pipeline across key markets (KSA, UAE, Kenya, South Africa, etc).

This role is focused on outbound led pipeline creation for mid market and enterprise customers in regulated industries such as BFSI, fintech, telecom, SaaS, and digital platforms. You will work closely with the regional sales team to open new logos, penetrate target accounts, and convert early conversations into revenue ready opportunities.

This is a hands-on role for someone who has experience selling into MEA markets, understands longer enterprise buying cycles, and is comfortable prospecting into senior security and engineering stakeholders while working with the dedicated aligned hours.

Key Responsibilities:

Pipeline Generation

• Own outbound pipeline creation across assigned MEA markets 
• Prospect into defined ICPs including CISOs, Heads of Application Security, DevSecOps leaders, Security Architects, and Engineering Directors responsible for application and mobile security
• Execute multi channel/threaded outreach using cold calling, personalized email, LinkedIn, and account based prospecting

Qualification and Handover

• Qualify leads against criteria including use case, urgency, stakeholder alignment, buying process, and budget readiness using structured qualification frameworks such as MEDDPICC or similar.
• Partner closely with the regional sales team to ensure clean, context rich opportunity handover to encourage faster progression

Market Specific Outreach

• Tailor outreach and messaging based on country, industry, and regulatory context including and sector specific compliance needs
• Continuously refine messaging based on conversion data and market feedback

Collaboration

• Work closely with Marketing and other SDRs to follow up on campaigns and improve lead quality
• Share insights from prospect conversations to improve ICP definition, messaging, and targeting

Execution and Reporting

• Maintain high CRM hygiene with accurate activity and pipeline tracking
• Consistently meet or exceed weekly and monthly activity, meetings booked, and pipeline/conversion targets
• Sample quarterly targets/Performance Expectations
• Generate 8–12 qualified meetings per month
• Build outbound pipeline of USD 300-350k QoQ across named target accounts

Requirements:

Experience

• 3-5 years of experience in B2B SaaS sales development or a similar outbound role
• Prior experience selling into MEA markets from India is required
• Experience in cybersecurity, developer tools, or enterprise SaaS is strongly preferred

Track Record

• Proven ability to consistently meet or exceed outbound pipeline or qualified meetings targets
• Demonstrated success working closely with Account Executives on opportunity creation

Prospecting Skills

• Strong cold calling, email outreach, and social selling skills
• Comfortable engaging senior technical, security, and engineering stakeholders

Communication

• Excellent spoken and written English. 
• Proficiency in additional languages is mandatory. Arabic language familiarity is a strong plus for engaging prospects across Middle East markets 
• Exposure to regional business communication styles and buying behavior is important

Organization and Ownership

• Strong time management and prioritization skills
• Ability to work independently with high ownership in a remote setup

Tools and Technology

• Hands on experience with CRM systems such as Hubspot, Salesforce or equivalent
• Familiarity with sales engagement tools, LinkedIn Sales Navigator, and prospecting data platforms is a plus
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Growth Path- High performing SDRs will have the opportunity to progress into Senior SDR or Account Executive roles as the Middle-East business scales.

Interview Process:

• Round 0: Profile Evaluation – HR
• Round 1: Interview with MEA Lead
• Round 2: Assignment
• Round 3: Interview with Chief Strategy Officer 
• Round 4: HR Discussion / Final HR Round

Compensation:

• Competitive base salary plus performance-based commission tied to pipeline and revenue generated.

Why Join Us?

• Global Impact & Innovation: Be part of a cutting-edge cybersecurity company that serves Fortune 500 clients and enterprises across industries. You’ll work on innovative security solutions and gain exposure to global sales strategies.
• Learning & Growth: Access continuous development opportunities – on-the-job training, professional courses, and mentorship. Appknox invests in your career: as one employee shares, the company has contributed “immensely to my personal and professional growth”.
• Flexible Culture: Enjoy a flexible schedule and hybrid work model. Appknox trusts you to manage your work – “flexible schedule empowers us to work at our best”. We also emphasize work-life balance; employees appreciate our “healthy work-life balance… and flexible and positive work culture”.
• Competitive Compensation: A rewarding package with base salary, performance-based commissions/bonuses, and equity options.
• Benefits & Wellbeing: Comprehensive medical insurance for you and your family, participation in a Corporate Pension Scheme (Corporate-NPS) for future security, and wellness perks like gym memberships and mental health support.
• Collaborative Team: Join a diverse, cross-functional team of cybersecurity experts, marketers, and sales pros. You’ll report to the Director of Global Sales and collaborate with colleagues worldwide. We uphold honesty, customer-centricity, and open communication in everything we do.

Ready to secure the future of mobile apps? If you’re a driven SDR with a passion for sales and technology, we want you on our team. Apply today to help Appknox continue making mobile apps a safer place for businesses and users around the globe.

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 65+ 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

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

What An Ideal Candidate Would Look Like: 

• Skills - Application Penetration Testing (Web, iOS and Android), experience with IoT testing, source code audits.
• Technology Stack: AWS, GCP, Objective C, Java, Python
• Responsibilities: Engage with clients for scoping call, perform security audits, remediation call with clients to patch the issues, research on new technologies/vulnerabilities.

Minimum Requirements:

• Should have 1-2 years of full-time experience in application VAPT or show something that proves experience doesn’t matter
• Strong Analytical Skills and critical skills 
• Strong grasp of fundamentals of information security
• 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.

Responsibilities:

• Security assessment of web/mobile applications on various platforms
• Focusing on Mobile Application Security
• Static and Dynamic Code Analysis
• Develop and interpret security standards and guides
• Automation of security test cases
• Understand and explain the results with impact on business and compliance status
• Continuously learning and training on latest tools and technique

Work Expectations:

Within 2 months

• Training on processes, security workflow

Within 3 months

• Pentesting web, mobile, API endpoints

Within 1 year

• Research and publish whitepapers, contribute to the Appknox Scanner

Interview Process:

• Round 1- Profile Evaluation; HR
• Round 2- CTF Round
• Round 3- Technical Interview with security team members
• Round 4- Technical Interview with the Hiring Manager
• Round 5- HR Round

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 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 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.

Role Overview:

Appknox is expanding its Europe business and is looking for a high performing Sales Development Representative based in India to build qualified outbound pipeline across key European markets.

This role is focused on outbound led pipeline creation for mid market and enterprise customers in regulated industries such as BFSI, fintech, telecom, SaaS, and digital platforms. You will work closely with a senior Account Executive to open new logos, penetrate target accounts, and convert early conversations into revenue ready opportunities.

This is a hands-on role for someone who has experience selling into European markets, understands longer enterprise buying cycles, and is comfortable prospecting into senior security and engineering stakeholders while working Europe aligned hours.

Key Responsibilities:

Pipeline Generation

• Own outbound pipeline creation across assigned European markets. 
• Prospect into defined ICPs including CISOs, Heads of Application Security, and Engineering Leaders
• Execute multi channel outreach using cold calling, personalized email, LinkedIn, and account based prospecting.

Qualification and Handover

• Qualify outbound leads against clear criteria including use case, urgency, stakeholder alignment, and buying intent
• Partner closely with the Europe Account Executive to ensure clean, context rich opportunity handover to encourage faster progression.

Market Specific Outreach

• Tailor outreach and messaging based on country, industry, and regulatory context including GDPR and sector specific compliance needs.
• Continuously refine messaging based on conversion data and market feedback.

Collaboration

• Work closely with Marketing to follow up on campaigns and improve lead quality
• Share insights from prospect conversations to improve ICP definition, messaging, and targeting.

Execution and Reporting

• Maintain high CRM hygiene with accurate activity and pipeline tracking
• Consistently meet or exceed weekly and monthly activity, meetings booked, and pipeline/conversion targets.

Requirements:

Experience

• 2-3 years of experience in B2B SaaS sales development or a similar outbound role.
• Prior experience selling into European markets from India is required.
• Experience in cybersecurity, developer tools, or enterprise SaaS is strongly preferred.

Track Record

• Proven ability to consistently meet or exceed outbound pipeline or qualified meetings targets
• Demonstrated success working closely with Account Executives on opportunity creation.

Prospecting Skills

• Strong cold calling, email outreach, and social selling skills
• Comfortable engaging senior technical, security, and engineering stakeholders.

Communication

• Excellent spoken and written English. 
• Proficiency in additional European languages such as German, French, or Spanish is a strong plus.
• Exposure to European business communication styles and buying behavior is important.

Organization and Ownership

• Strong time management and prioritization skills
• Ability to work independently with high ownership in a hybrid setup.

Growth Path-

High performing SDRs will have the opportunity to progress into Senior SDR or Account Executive roles as the Europe business scales.

Interview Process

• Round 0: Profile Evaluation – HR
• Round 1: Interview with Sales Team
• Round 2: Interview with Head of Sales
• Round 3: Interview with Co-founder
• Round 4: HR Discussion / Final HR Round

Compensation

• As per market standards

Why Join Us?

• Global Impact & Innovation: Be part of a cutting-edge cybersecurity company that serves Fortune 500 clients and enterprises across industries. You’ll work on innovative security solutions and gain exposure to global sales strategies.
• Learning & Growth: Access continuous development opportunities – on-the-job training, professional courses, and mentorship. Appknox invests in your career: as one employee shares, the company has contributed “immensely to my personal and professional growth”.
• Flexible Culture: Enjoy a flexible schedule and hybrid work model. Appknox trusts you to manage your work – “flexible schedule empowers us to work at our best”. We also emphasize work-life balance; employees appreciate our “healthy work-life balance… and flexible and positive work culture”.
• Competitive Compensation: A rewarding package with base salary, performance-based commissions/bonuses, and equity options.
• Benefits & Wellbeing: Comprehensive medical insurance for you and your family, participation in a Corporate Pension Scheme (Corporate-NPS) for future security, and wellness perks like gym memberships and mental health support.
• Collaborative Team: Join a diverse, cross-functional team of cybersecurity experts, marketers, and sales pros. You’ll report to the Director of Global Sales and collaborate with colleagues worldwide. We uphold honesty, customer-centricity, and open communication in everything we do.

Ready to secure the future of mobile apps? If you’re a driven SDR with a passion for sales and technology, we want you on our team. Apply today to help Appknox continue making mobile apps a safer place for businesses and users around the globe.

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 50+ 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:

Customer Success contributes to our efforts to enhance and transform the Appknox customer experience via a customer-centric approach (building and maintaining relationships, proactively identifying potential crises that may be detrimental to the user experience, meeting, and exceeding customer expectations). Thus, helping to differentiate Appknox.This position provides the opportunity to tame different use cases across multiple industries and interact with some of the smartest individuals from other fast-growing companies that are our customers. We see this role requiring an intersection of three key skills – Business Acumen & Problem solving, Product Perspective, and People Skills.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a portfolio of current customers in the US region.
• Understand the customer’s goals, establish a trusted relationship and ensure that they are successful in achieving their business goals using Appknox. 
• Own the customer lifecycle journey from onboarding to adoption, renewal, and growth.
• Organize, analyze, prioritize, and share customer feedback with concerned stakeholders to ensure we always consider the voice of the customer.
• Drive live demos and product implementation for your customers when onboarding and support existing clients on issues and tickets.
• Prepare and collate all materials and participate with customers on QBR exercises to address existing gaps and identify new opportunities/use cases.

What An Ideal Candidate Would Look Like:

• 3+ years of working experience in a customer-facing role such as Customer Success, Technical Account Management, Customer Onboarding roles at SaaS companies for internation markets especiallly US market.
• Good communication skills especially with Enterprise customers from around the globes are necessary.
• Must have experience in upselling, cross selling and gauge customer requirements.
• Must have good presentation skills and hold of understanding customer’s business requirements.
• Will have worked on KPIs - customer retention, upsell revenue, cross sell revenue, QBR(Quarterly Business Reviews), referrals.
• Knows how to be the customer's voice in the company to ensure they get maximum value from upcoming product features.
• Must have experience of tracking product usage and instrumentation for Customer Success Management.
• May have experience driving customer advocacy programs along with Sales and Marketing teams to build customer referral, customer case studies and testimonials.

Work Expectations:

Within 1 month

• You should have a complete hold of the product and value customers are getting from it.
• Interact with at least 5 enterprise customers and receive feedback that we should be focusing on.
• Drive at least 1 QBR from existing customers.

Within 3 months

• You need to have a clear understanding of onboarding customers. 
• Suggest CR(Customer Requests) for the Product team to evaluate and consider in the product roadmap.
• Complete atleast 5 QBRs and also engage with 15+ customers from your book of business to ensure they get value++.
• Understand how to build the engagement pipeline for each of the customers you are owning and document all engagements.
• At least 1 referral from existing customers.

Within 6 months

• You should have discipline and document all of the ongoing discussions. 
• Own CS for your accounts and set up a process that needs to be implemented for better customer experience.
• We need an owner for this position who can in future build the CSM team below to drive overall customer success.

Personality traits we really admire:

• Confident and dynamic working persona, which can bring fun to the team, and 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.
• Follows timelines and absolute commitment to deadlines.

Interview Process: 

• Round 1 - Profile Evaluation
• Round 2 - Assignment
• Round 3 - Assignment discussion with the CSMs
• Round 4- Hiring Manager
• Round 5 - HR Discussion 

Compensation:

• As per Industry Standards

We prefer that every employee also holds equity in the company. In this role, you will be awarded equity after 12 months, based on the impact you have created.

Please be aware that all your customers will include Enterprises and Fortune 500 companies.

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.
• Work Schedule: Flexible working environment with remote work if required.

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 50+ 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:

Customer Success contributes to our efforts to enhance and transform the Appknox customer experience via a customer-centric approach (building and maintaining relationships, proactively identifying potential crises that may be detrimental to the user experience, meeting, and exceeding customer expectations). Thus, helping to differentiate Appknox.This position provides the opportunity to tame different use cases across multiple industries and interact with some of the smartest individuals from other fast-growing companies that are our customers. We see this role requiring an intersection of three key skills – Business Acumen & Problem solving, Product Perspective, and People Skills.

Responsibilities:

• Manage a portfolio of current customers. 
• Understand the customer’s goals, establish a trusted relationship and ensure that they are successful in achieving their business goals using Appknox. 
• Own the customer lifecycle journey from onboarding to adoption, renewal, and growth.
• Organize, analyze, prioritize, and share customer feedback with concerned stakeholders to ensure we always consider the voice of the customer.
• Drive live demos and product implementation for your customers when onboarding and support existing clients on issues and tickets.
• Prepare and collate all materials and participate with customers on QBR exercises to address existing gaps and identify new opportunities/use cases.

What An Ideal Candidate Would Look Like:

• 2+ years of working experience in a customer-facing role such as Customer Success, Technical Account Management, Customer Onboarding roles at SaaS companies.
• Good communication skills especially with Enterprise customers from around the globe are necessary.
• Must have experience in upselling, cross selling and gauge customer requirements.
• Must have good presentation skills and hold of understanding customer’s business requirements.
• Will have worked on KPIs - customer retention, upsell revenue, cross sell revenue, QBR(Quarterly Business Reviews), referrals.
• Knows how to be the customer's voice in the company to ensure they get maximum value from upcoming product features.
• Must have experience of tracking product usage and instrumentation for Customer Success Management.
• May have experience driving customer advocacy programs along with Sales and Marketing teams to build customer referral, customer case studies and testimonials.

Work Expectations:

Within 1 month

• You should have a complete hold of the product and value customers are getting from it.
• Interact with at least 5 enterprise customers and receive feedback that we should be focusing on.
• Drive at least 1 QBR from existing customers.

Within 3 months

• You need to have a clear understanding of onboarding customers. 
• Suggest CR(Customer Requests) for the Product team to evaluate and consider in the product roadmap.
• Complete atleast 5 QBRs and also engage with 15+ customers from your book of business to ensure they get value++.
• Understand how to build the engagement pipeline for each of the customers you are owning and document all engagements.
• At least 1 referral from existing customers.

Within 6 months

• You should have discipline and document all of the ongoing discussions. 
• Own CS for your accounts and set up a process that needs to be implemented for better customer experience.
• We need an owner for this position who can in future build the CSM team below to drive overall customer success.

Personality traits we really admire:

• Confident and dynamic working persona, which can bring fun to the team, and 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.
• Follows timelines and absolute commitment to deadlines.

Interview Process: 

• Round 1 - Profile Evaluation
• Round 2 - Assignment
• Round 3 - Assignment discussion with the CSMs
• Round 4- Hiring Manager
• Round 5 - HR Discussion 

Compensation:

• As per Industry Standards

We prefer that every employee also holds equity in the company. In this role, you will be awarded equity after 12 months, based on the impact you have created.

Please be aware that all your customers will include Enterprises and Fortune 500 companies.

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.
• Work Schedule: Flexible working environment with remote work if required.

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

Experience

• 2–3 years of professional experience building AI-powered systems
• Previous hands-on work with agentic systems, autonomous workflows, or LLM-centric applications (not focused on model training)

Requirements:

• Design, build, and deploy autonomous AI agents using modern LLM frameworks
• Integrate agents with APIs, databases, and backend workflows
• Implement prompt strategies, tool/function calling, memory, and context management
• Strong understanding of vector databases and retrieval techniques (RAG use cases)
• Build production-ready systems with testing, monitoring, and scalable deployment practices
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ship reliable production features
• Strong Python and backend engineering skills
• Hands-on experience with agent frameworks such as LangChain, AutoGen, LlamaIndex
• Familiarity with observability and debugging tools (e.g., Arize, LangSmith, Langfuse dashboards)

Good to Have skill-set:

• Experience with multi-agent orchestration or planning frameworks
• Experience with online and offline evaluation of AI agents
• Exposure to cloud deployment and containerization (AWS/GCP/Azure, Docker)

 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.