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title: 'Technical Recruiter at Hinoki Security'
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# Technical Recruiter at Hinoki Security

- **Company:** Hinoki Security
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hinoki/30a3f0de-ddaf-4150-b652-4e2e276b6405

## Job description

## ABOUT HINOKI SECURITY

AI is collapsing the cost of offense. What used to require a skilled exploit developer can increasingly be automated, and defenders are still working from tooling that was designed two decades ago: tools that produce endless lists of findings without telling anyone what actually matters or what to do about it.

Hinoki is building the AI-native platform that fixes this. We continuously map an enterprise's real exposure, figure out what is genuinely dangerous in the customer's specific environment, and drive the remediation through to verified resolution. Old scanners produce lists. We produce fixes.

We're backed by Andreessen Horowitz and led by a second-time security founder, most recently from Google. The platform is already in production at Fortune 500 enterprises.

Hinoki Security is searching for our first technical recruiter to join our growing team. In this pivotal role, you'll partner directly with our founder to drive high-priority talent initiatives and shape our recruiting function from the ground up. Our engineering and GTM candidates are often inspired by the technology we build and the real-world impact we deliver for our customers. If you’re genuinely passionate about our mission, we want you to help share that excitement and attract top-tier talent to our team.

## What You Will Do

- Own the full recruiting lifecycle from sourcing to closing candidates across a variety of engineering roles, both listed and unlisted.
- Proactively source exceptional technical talent using direct outreach, AI-powered sourcing tools, and creative channels.
- Manage the end-to-end interview process to provide candidates with an outstanding experience and ensure we close top talent.
- Collaborate closely with the CEO and hiring managers to define role requirements and align on ideal candidate profiles.
- Build and maintain relationships with external recruiting agencies, ensuring a high-quality pipeline and consistency across all sourcing channels.
- Plan and execute in-person candidate sourcing events in San Francisco, leveraging the local tech community and strengthening our employer brand.

## What You Bring

- 1+ year of technical recruiting experience, with a primary focus on engineering roles.
- Demonstrated success recruiting at a startup or high-bar tech company, with a record of attracting and closing high-quality engineers.
- Firsthand experience with modern sourcing tools and direct outreach (e.g., LinkedIn Recruiter, Juicebox, Gem).
- Exceptional, responsive communication skills. You know when and how to be persistent with professionalism and discretion.
- Demonstrated ownership of the recruiting process end-to-end, from sourcing through to offer negotiation.

Join us to build an exceptional team and make a real impact at Hinoki Security.

## About Hinoki Security

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hinoki Security builds an AI-native continuous vulnerability scanning and remediation platform that maps enterprise exposure, identifies genuine risks, and drives fixes to verified resolution.
- **Entity Type**: Private, venture-backed (Series undisclosed)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA
- **Founded**: Not publicly available
- **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed (led by a second-time security founder, most recently from Google)

## Core Business
- **Industries**: Cybersecurity (vulnerability management, exposure management, AI-powered security)
- **Target Customers**: B2B enterprise, including Fortune 500 companies
- **Mission / Purpose**: Collapse the cost of defense by using AI to replace legacy scanners that produce endless lists with an outcome-driven platform that actually fixes problems.

## Products & Services
- **Hinoki Platform**: A self-driving exposure management platform that scans for CVEs across cloud and on-premises, AI-pentests applications for business logic vulnerabilities, prioritizes findings using existing enterprise data, and automates remediation until verified. Combines continuous scanning, AI agent‑driven validation, and patching into a unified SaaS platform.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Funding**: Not publicly disclosed; backed by **Andreessen Horowitz** (a16z).
- **Key Metric**: **Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR)** – Not publicly available. **Total Funding** – Not publicly available.
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Andreessen Horowitz (lead investor); platform in production at Fortune 500 enterprises.
- **Growth Signals**: Active hiring for multiple engineering roles (Agent Core Infra, Web Platform); job postings reference rapid deployment with enterprise customers; strong investor backing from a top-tier VC.

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI-native, not bolt-on**: The entire platform is built around autonomous AI agents – old scanners produce lists, Hinoki produces fixed problems.
- **Outcome-driven agents**: Multi-step reasoning, tool use, memory, and evaluation ensure remediation is verified, not just flagged.
- **Provenance and transparency**: Every decision has a clear audit trail (why the agent believes something, who owns it, what evidence supports the next action).
- **Continuous mapping**: Real-time visibility into exposure across cloud and on-prem environments, not periodic snapshots.
- **Taste & quality focus**: Deliberate avoidance of “AI slop” – high bar for engineering rigor and product quality.

## Strategic Focus
- **Current priorities**: Scale the platform to handle more enterprise environments; deepen agent orchestration and verification capabilities; expand the frontend product surface for analysts and security engineers.
- **Direction for growth**: Continue replacing legacy vulnerability management tools with an AI-driven, outcome‑oriented approach; build out the data layer that models customer environments in real time.

## Why Work Here
- **Engineering culture**: High agency, small reversible changes, AI-native workflow (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor daily). “You read a plan doc and ship. You don’t wait for tickets.”
- **Tech stack**: TypeScript and C++ (depth valued over specific languages); distributed systems; cloud fluency (AWS, Azure, GCP).
- **Learning opportunity**: No security background required – the company teaches the domain. Engineers get exposure to AI agents, autonomous systems, and real‑world infrastructure at scale.
- **Work mode**: Onsite/hybrid in San Francisco (job listings indicate “Onsite” or “Hybrid”).
- **Compensation**: Estimated $185,000–$300,000/year depending on role (Web Platform ~$185k, Agent Core Infra ~$200k–$300k).
- **Culture notes**: “We have a high bar for taste and quality. There’s too much AI slop in the world, and we would like to see less of it.”

## Sources
1. [Hinoki Security Website](https://hinoki.security/)
2. [TealHQ – Software Engineer (Agent Core Infra)](https://www.tealhq.com/job/software-engineer_7ea1a58aaff9a409ae7060af5075226e269d1)
3. [TealHQ – Software Engineer (Web Platform)](https://www.tealhq.com/job/software-engineer-web-platform_7ea1aad10592e4b1913b770cebc4c36891952)
4. [Rise Open Jobs – Software Engineer (Web Platform)](https://joinrise.co/hinoki-security/software-engineer-web-platform-tion)
5. [Jobr – Software Engineer (Agent Core Infra)](https://jobr.pro/job/40990705/software-engineer-agent-core-infra)

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