Head of AI

About Konvu

At Konvu, we’re on a mission to make security invisible. As we move towards a future dominated by code automatically generated, tested, and deployed by AIs, we need a new paradigm for application security. We need vulnerabilities to be automatically detected, prioritized, and remediated.

Behind Konvu are founders with deep roots in the security industry. As early employees at Sqreen, a notable security startup acquired by Datadog, we have firsthand experience in driving security solutions from concept to global impact.

We have secured $5M in Seed funding and are backed by top European and US venture capital firms, along with executives and former executives from companies such as Datadog, GitHub, Docker, Cloudflare, Sumo Logic, and Vanta.

We’re looking for a Head of AI to join us and play a crucial role in this journey.

What You'll Do

You will play a pivotal role in shaping the product and helping customers identify vulnerabilities that matter in their environments. You will collaborate with the founders and interact frequently with customers.

Working directly with the engineering team, your responsibilities will include:

• Define the Frontier of Applied AI in Security: Take the latest breakthroughs in reasoning, planning, and multi-agent systems and make them work in the wild, where reliability, interpretability, and proof matter just as much as raw capability.
• Guide Training & Evaluation: Define and drive how we deploy and evaluate reasoning models for security, choosing the right techniques to achieve high precision, reliability, and explainability.
• Architect Enterprise-Grade AI Agents: Design agents that replicate how security engineers think: reasoning about exploitability, triaging vulnerabilities, and justifying every decision with evidence.
• Bridge Research and Reality: Track and evaluate emerging AI and security research, and be the one to decide what’s worth pulling into production, often before it hits industry radar.
• Invent at Scale: Lead development of core agentic infrastructure that can operate at enterprise scale .
• Shape a New Discipline: Security + AI is uncharted territory. What you design here could set the reference architecture for how agentic systems secure software globally.
• Lead and Inspire: Influence a team of exceptional engineers, and set Konvu’s AI direction with autonomy, impact, and speed.
  
  

Who You Are

We value people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all qualifications on day one. Even if you don't meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply if you're enthusiastic about the role and believe you can make a valuable contribution.

We’re looking for someone who thrives at the intersection of cutting-edge AI real-world impact. You’re not only an exceptional researcher or engineer, you’re a builder who wants to see advanced ideas come alive in production, solving one of the hardest problems in security.

• 7+ years of software experience in applied AI, applied ML, or building large-scale AI systems.
• Proven track record of designing, training, or deploying reasoning agents, LLMs, or advanced ML systems: ideally in domains where reliability and precision matter.
• Ability to bridge research and application: from reading a new paper or experimenting with a new model, to evaluating how it should ship in production.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex systems clearly to both technical and non-technical teammates.
• Curiosity about security. No prior security experience required, but a genuine drive to learn a new, adversarial domain and apply AI to it.
• Leadership mindset: experience mentoring or leading small teams, with excitement to grow and set the direction of Konvu’s AI org.
• Positive, impact-driven attitude & motivated by building something that will protect software worldwide, not just publishing results.
• Proficient in English (the office is an English-speaking environment)
  
  

Why work at Konvu

• Play a key role in shaping the future of the security industry
• Grow with us as we embark on an exciting journey to make security invisible
• Develop your skills in a cutting-edge field
• Be a part of an inclusive team that values every voice
• Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and comprehensive benefits
  
  

Our commitment to diversity

At Konvu, we deeply value diversity and are dedicated to fostering an environment where everyone feels supported and can thrive. To build a product that’s loved by everyone, we need a team with all kinds of different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds. This is why we are committed to hiring people from all walks of life.

Our hiring process

• 30-minute video call with our CEO
• 1h video call with our CTO
• Onsite with the whole team: 3 hours total
• Reference calls