Escape helps teams secure modern applications - APIs, Single Page Apps, and Microservices:
1. Document all your APIs in minutes—no traffic monitoring or complex integrations required
2. Leverage our…
Escape helps teams secure modern applications - APIs, Single Page Apps, and Microservices:
1. Document all your APIs in minutes—no traffic monitoring or complex integrations required
2. Leverage our…
Product: AI-powered offensive security platform for APIs, SPAs, and microservices (ASM, business-logic DAST, AI pentesting, remediation)
Founded / HQ signal: Paris-based startup
Funding: $3.9M seed (2023); $18M Series A (Mar 2026)
Team size: ~60 employees
Company Overview
Problem Domain
Web and API application security (attack surface management, dynamic application security testing, AI-assisted pentesting and remediation).
Industry
Computer and Network Security
Funding Track Record
Seed- June 5, 2023
$3.9M
Raised shortly after participating in Y Combinator W23
Series A- March 2026
$18M
Series A participation included Uncorrelated Ventures, IRIS, and Y Combinator
Investor Signal
“Backed by stage-appropriate VCs including IRIS and Balderton Capital; participation from Y Combinator and several early-stage investors”
Founders
What we do
Join the Team
Lead Security Researcher
HybridParis, Île-de-, FR
Hybrid • Paris, Île-de-, FR
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👉 We are seeking a
Lead Security Researcher
to join Escape and play a central role in advancing the detection capabilities of our DAST and ASM products. This role focuses on applied research: discovering novel vulnerability detection techniques, improving existing algorithms, and ensuring Escape remains best-in-class in terms of accuracy, performance, and real-world relevance.
As part of the Security Research team, you will work on transforming security insights into concrete detection logic that runs at scale in production. Your work will directly shape the effectiveness of Escape’s scanners and have a measurable impact on customer security outcomes.
Context
Location
: Paris (75002), 2 days remote/week
Company
:
Escape
– Leading AI Cybersecurity Startup
Cofounders
: CEO (
Tristan Kalos
) and CTO (
Antoine Carossio
)
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Vulnerability Research:
Research and identify new classes of vulnerabilities and novel detection techniques across web applications, APIs, and modern application architectures.
Algorithm Design & Improvement:
Design, evaluate, and continuously improve detection algorithms with a strong focus on signal quality, performance, and reduction of false positives.
Applied R&D:
Turn research ideas into practical, implementable detection logic suitable for large-scale, automated scanning.
Performance & Accuracy Focus:
Evaluate trade-offs between coverage, accuracy, and execution cost to ensure scanners remain efficient at scale.
Cross-Team Collaboration:
Work closely with the Scanners and Platform teams to ensure research outputs are effectively integrated into production systems.
Technical Leadership:
Act as a senior contributor within the research team, setting technical direction, reviewing research approaches, and mentoring other researchers.
Technology Watch:
Stay up to date with emerging vulnerabilities, exploitation techniques, and defensive research in the application security ecosystem.
💸 Significant equity (Stock Options/BSCPE)
, making you a true stakeholder in our success.
❤️🩹
Top-tier
health insurance
with
Alan
🍕
Meal vouchers
with a
Swile
💪Sportsubscription
with EGYM Wellpass (ex Gymlib)
📚 A place to learn and grow
: Access to books and online courses to help you excel in your role
💻 Top-tier equipment
to do your best work
🎁
Free time to work on cool
Open Source
Projects.
🌎
Opportunities to present research and engineering work at international conferences like
RSAC
,
BSides
,
BlackHat
,
DEFCON
,
APIDays
(New York, Las Vegas, San Francisco, London, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona)
5+ years of experience:
Proven experience in a security research or R&D-focused role, ideally within an applied or product-oriented environment.
Deep Expertise:
Strong depth in at least one security or computer science domain (e.g. web security, program analysis, protocols, compilers, networking).
Broad CS Knowledge:
Solid understanding of computer science fundamentals, enabling cross-domain reasoning and problem solving.
Compiled Languages:
Proficiency in at least one compiled language such as C/C++, Go, or Rust.
Results-Oriented Research:
Demonstrated ability to drive research from idea to tangible, measurable outcomes.
Collaboration Skills:
Comfortable working with software engineers to transition research into scalable, production-ready systems.
Curiosity & Rigor:
Strong analytical mindset, intellectual curiosity, and high standards for technical rigor.
