Distinguished Engineer, R&D Lead

securecodewarrior· Engineering
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📍 United StatesFull Time

About this role

Join Secure Code Warrior to create a safer digital landscape by assisting companies to secure their software through developer-led practices! Secure Code Warrior’s mission is to establish new standards for coding that transform the ways software is created. We do this by providing the world’s leading agile learning platform that delivers the most effective secure coding solution for developers to learn, apply, and retain software security principles.  More than 600 enterprises trust Secure Code Warrior to implement agile learning security programs, build safer software, and create a culture of developer-driven security.  We are a venture-backed company with offices in Australia, the United States, Belgium, Iceland, and the United Kingdom. Software development is moving through its biggest shift ever — from human-written code, to AI-assisted development, to fully agentic systems where AI writes, tests, and deploys code autonomously. At every stage, enterprises face the same three problems: developers and agents need to learn to build securely, someone needs to govern what AI can and can’t touch in the codebase, and when something goes wrong, you need to know which AI did what, where, and for whom. Secure Code Warrior is building the control plane for secure AI software development. We are defining the AI Software Governance category — and this role exists to ensure the technical foundations of that category are sound, forward-looking, and defensible. As our first Distinguished Engineer and founding R&D Lead, your mandate is broad and deliberate: tackle the hardest unsolved problems on our roadmap, generate the technical intelligence that keeps us ahead of the market, and build the prototypes that prove — or disprove — the ideas that will define our next generation of product.

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This Distinguished Engineer, R&D Lead position at securecodewarrior was posted on Apr 20, 2026. Apply as soon as possible — early applications are often reviewed first.
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