Careers at Hardshell
We're a seed-stage team headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia, hiring across engineering, research, product, and go-to-market.
Every role is hybrid in Charlottesville or remote on Eastern Time.
Open roles
Chief of Staff
Run the operating cadence of a seed-stage company: board and investor materials, hiring operations, and the internal systems that keep a small team fast. You'll work directly with the CEO across every function.
Apply →Senior Software Engineer (Applications)
Build the product surface of the Hardshell platform: the applications, integrations, and APIs security and data teams use every day. Enterprise-scale production experience matters more than a security background.
Apply →Solutions Engineer
Own the technical side of every deal: pilot deployments, integration into customer AI stacks, and turning findings into clear readouts. You'll sit between engineering and the customer from first call through production.
Apply →Head of GTM
Build Hardshell's go-to-market from first principles: positioning, pipeline, pricing, and the first repeatable sales motion across federal and high-trust commercial verticals. You'll carry the early number and hire the team behind it.
Apply →AI Security Engineer
Work at the data layer of enterprise AI systems: retrieval security, leakage detection, and the adversarial-ML techniques behind the platform. You'll ship controls that hold up against real extraction attempts.
Apply →AI Security Scientist
Advance the applied research behind Hardshell's detection and transformation methods, from measurement methodology to new defenses. Publication-quality rigor under production constraints.
Apply →Technical Product Manager
Own the roadmap where customer risk, research, and engineering meet, and turn ambiguous security problems into shippable product. You'll be the first product hire.
Apply →Account Executive
Run full-cycle sales into security and data teams adopting AI: prospecting through close, pilots through expansion. Early territory, direct access to the founders.
Apply →Apply
One application per role. If more than one fits, apply to the closest and say so in your note. Questions, or a resume without an application, can go to careers@hardshell.ai.