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About the role

We are looking for a technically strong software engineering leader to own software quality, architecture and integrated delivery across our India software organisation. Our robots depend on multiple software disciplines working together reliably. You will help shape technology strategy and organisational direction, and translate that into sound architectural decisions, strong engineering practices and dependable execution. This is a hands-on leadership role combining technical depth, people management and accountability for outcomes.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka,  Reports to: Chief Technology Officer · Experience: 10+ years

About Us

We are building robots to maintain, organise and reset common public and commercial spaces — offices, campuses, venues and other high-traffic facilities. We are building a hybrid end-to-end architecture where classical and modern methods work together for maximum reliability and robustness, with R&D in Bengaluru and Wellington, New Zealand.

What you will do

Technology direction and architecture: help shape technology strategy and drive architecture decisions across robot software, cloud services, data processing and model training infrastructure. Own system-level requirements — latency, compute and memory budgets, end-to-end reliability. Establish clear interfaces and component ownership, and resolve technical trade-offs across the stack.

Software quality, security and engineering practices: set and embed standards for code quality, testing, documentation, observability and secure development. Own the software security review and audit process across robot and cloud systems, working with specialists where needed. Build quality into everyday development through effective reviews, automated validation and measurable acceptance criteria.

Integrated software delivery: own delivery across teams, turning product priorities into realistic plans with clear commitments, dependencies and milestones. Resolve execution bottlenecks and hold teams accountable for working software and demonstrated robot behaviour.

Integration, resilience and release readiness: own integration and release readiness across robot software, cloud services, and data and training pipelines, including Kubernetes. Define and validate behaviour during connectivity loss, service degradation and component failures, including safe fallback, recovery and rollback. Establish reproducible builds and simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, on-robot and cloud testing.

Hands-on technical leadership: stay close to implementation through critical design and code work, complex debugging and direct involvement in the most consequential technical problems.

People and team development: lead and develop engineers and technical leads; build capability through hiring, coaching, clear performance expectations and stronger technical ownership.

Cross-team alignment: bring teams together around shared technical decisions and delivery outcomes, including teams outside your reporting line.

Experience

• At least 10 years in robotics or AI, including technical leadership roles
• Strong understanding of autonomy systems such as VLA/VLM models, SLAM, planning, perception and ML-based decision-making
• Python, C++, ROS, and ML stacks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow
• Experience with robotics, embedded systems, autonomous systems or comparable products where software interacts with physical hardware
• Practical experience improving automated testing, continuous integration, release processes and production reliability
• Evidence of delivering programmes spanning multiple teams, including teams outside your reporting line
• Experience architecting and operating cloud platforms, containerised workloads, and large-scale data processing or model training pipelines

What success looks like

• Teams deliver predictably against a shared plan, with clear ownership and fewer late integration surprises
• Architecture supports product goals and makes the software easier to extend, test and maintain
• Releases produce measurable improvements in robot behaviour and reliability
• Recurring failures, escaped defects and avoidable engineering rework decrease
• Engineers and technical leads grow in capability, ownership and execution independence

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

• 2-4+ years of experience in application security and vulnerability research
• Strong foundation in mobile app security - Android or Ios
• Proven track record of discovering and disclosing CVEs in mobile platforms or popular applications (provide - github/bug bounty profiles)
• Strong understanding of exploit mitigations and proven ability to bypass them
• Should be able to architect automated detection logic for new vulnerabilities and integrate them into our security products
• Develop AI-driven agents to automate dynamic analysis
• Should be able to Leverage AI/LLMs to augment Pentesting efforts
• Ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment, balancing deep research with practical deliverables

Good to have Requirements

• Understanding of AI/ML security risks

Responsibilities

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

Work Expectations

Within 1 month

Training on processes, security workflows and develop understanding on internal tools.

Within 3 months

Actively contributing in exploit development and automation of it with the team.

Within 6 months

Expected to achieve Subject Matter Expert status on our core security products. We expect you to validate your findings against real-world conditions, with a strong emphasis on translating internal discoveries into actionable bug bounty submissions and earned CVEs to benchmark your impact against the external security community.

Within 1 Year

By the end of your first year, you will be expected to produce and submit a piece of novel, peer-reviewed security research. This deliverable must be of a quality suitable for top-tier industry conferences.

Personality traits we really admire

• A confident and dynamic working persona, which can bring fun to the team, and a sense of humour, 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 - would be team specific

• Round 1- CTF round 
• Round 2 -Profile Evaluation; HR
• Round 3 -Technical Interview with security team members
• Round 4 -Technical Interview with the Hiring Manager
• Round 5 -Technical round with CTO
• Round 6 -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.