Sales Engineer | AI AppSec at Escape Technologies (New York, NY)

Escape Technologies· New York, NY·55m ago

Role details

Work type

Hybrid

Employment

Full-Time

Job description

About the Role

As a Sales Engineer at Escape, you’ll be the technical bridge between customers, Account Executives, and the engineering team enabling commercial deals by highlighting how our platform solves real-world security challenges. You will shape customer success, deliver demos, run POCs, and act as a trusted technical expert.

Responsibilities

Partner with Account Executives and Engineering to drive commercial wins in pre-sales engagements
Configure, demo, and guide customers through our platform to ensure a seamless technical experience
Gather customer feedback, educate on best practices, and advise on optimal product use
Identify opportunities for product improvement, sharing critical insights with Product & Engineering teams
Occasionally support on-site visits, workshops, and POCs at customer offices or industry conferences

What We’re Looking For

Experience: 4+ years in a deep tech environment; consulting experience is a plus
Technical Skills: Strong understanding of SaaS/software products; Python required, back-end engineering a plus
Customer Focus: Passion for enabling customer success, with outstanding communication skills
Proactive Problem-Solving: Confidence in independently troubleshooting technical challenges
Team Player: Track record of seamless collaboration with sales, product, and engineering
Startup Enthusiast: Eager to make an impact at a fast-growing, high-energy AI security startup

Why Join Us?

Help shape the future of code-to-cloud and AI-driven security
Collaborate within a passionate, international team
Competitive compensation and opportunity for career growth
Work with cutting-edge technology in dynamic NYC & Paris offices

If you’re a technically strong, client-facing engineer who loves pre-sales strategy and making commercial impact, we’d love to meet you! Apply now and join Escape on our mission to secure the future.

Why work at Escape Technologies

High-Growth Startup: Part of Y Combinator (W23), recently raised an $18M Series A, and is growing its team rapidly (+8.8% monthly).
Cutting-Edge Tech: Work at the intersection of cybersecurity and generative AI, building autonomous agents that solve real, complex problems.
Hybrid Work Model: Roles are a mix of remote and in-office, with key offices in New York City and Paris.
Engineering-Centric Culture: The largest department is technical (19% of team). The platform is built by engineers for engineers, with a focus on solving complex business problems with creative technology.
Strong Product Traction: Over 2,000 security teams as customers provides a strong foundation and real-world impact.

About Escape Technologies

Company Overview

One-liner: Escape provides an AI-powered offensive security platform that automates discovery, pentesting, and remediation of vulnerabilities in web applications and APIs.
Entity Type: Private (YC W23)
Headquarters: New York, USA (with a significant office in Paris, France)
Founded: 2020
Founders: Antoine Carossio (Co-founder & CTO), Tristan Kalos (Co-founder & CEO)

Core Business

Primary industry: Cybersecurity (Application Security / Offensive Security)
Target customers: B2B; Security teams in medium and large organizations, including Fortune 1000 companies, and engineering teams needing integrated security testing.
Mission / Purpose: To help security teams who are "100x outnumbered" by automating offensive security end-to-end, replacing legacy scanners and manual processes with AI agents that work directly in engineering workflows.

Products & Services

AI Pentesting: AI agents that autonomously discover, analyze, and exploit complex, multi-step vulnerabilities, including business logic flaws. Provides proof of exploitability with screenshots and execution logs.
Business-Logic-Aware DAST (Dynamic Application Security Testing): Scans modern web applications (including SPAs) and APIs for vulnerabilities, providing detailed, developer-friendly remediation steps. Integrates directly into CI/CD pipelines.
Attack Surface Management (ASM): Automatically discovers, classifies, and tracks all internal and external assets (web apps, APIs, microservices) without needing agents or network traffic analysis.
AI-Powered Remediation: Delivers real code suggestions tailored to the target framework (e.g., React, Django, Spring Boot) and integrates with AI-assisted IDEs like Cursor, Claude Code, and Gemini.
Compliance Validation: Provides continuous validation for frameworks like PCI-DSS, HIPAA, SOC 2, and ISO 27001, generating audit-ready reports with proof of testing.

Market Standing

Valuation: Not publicly disclosed.
Key Metric: Raised $18M in Series A funding (announced Mar 2026).
Notable Investors: Y Combinator (W23 batch).
Growth Signals: Trusted by 2,000+ security teams worldwide. Reports a 229% increase in detection compared to legacy tools. Has a 32-person team with +8.8% monthly headcount growth. Published research on discovering 2,000+ high-impact vulnerabilities in "vibe coding" platforms. 20 active job postings.

Competitive Advantages

Business Logic Awareness: Unlike legacy DAST scanners that only check for known payloads, Escape tests workflows, access controls, and multi-step processes unique to each application.
Agentic Attack Reasoning: Uses a "Graph context" to find complex, multi-step attack chains that traditional tools miss.
Developer-Friendly Output: Provides visual proof (screenshots, exploitation graphs) and tailored remediation code, not generic suggestions, leading to higher trust and faster fixes from engineering teams.
Extremely Low False Positive Rate: Claims a ≤4% false positive rate, a critical differentiator in security tools.
Deep Integrations: Natively integrates with Wiz for a unified risk view and with AI-assisted IDEs for end-to-end automated remediation.

Strategic Focus

AI-First Automation: Replacing manual penetration testing and bug bounty programs with scalable, AI-driven autonomous agents.
Embedding into Developer Workflows: Moving security left by integrating directly into CI/CD, code repositories, and developer IDEs to make remediation seamless.
Expanding Coverage: Continuously adding support for new frameworks, compliance standards, and attack vectors (e.g., front-end & SPA testing in beta).
Commercial Growth: Scaling the sales and customer success teams (active hiring for Account Executives, Sales Engineers, and Customer Success roles) to capture a larger share of the enterprise market.

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