Sidekick Labs | Senior SWE, R&D Engineer, Intelligence Engineer
Location: REMOTE (US Timezones)
Type: Full-time
Compensation: $170k to $230k Base + Equity + Health
About Sidekick Labs
Sidekick builds AI security software for enterprises. Our sensors observe AI behavior and use in situ. From those observations, our reasoning pipeline produces an application inventory and a risk picture, allowing us to provide real-time intervention and coaching right when it matters.
We are a highly senior team. Most of us have been founders or on early founding teams, so we operate with high ownership. We expect you to have a real, current AI-assisted development practice. Our system spans several languages, and we expect you to use AI tools to quickly navigate unfamiliar parts of the codebase so you can comfortably own problems end-to-end across a broad stack.
Compensation & Benefits
- Base Salary: Scaled to experience ($170k–$230k).
- Equity: Meaningful early-stage equity.
- Health: 100% covered health insurance for you and your immediate family.
Open Roles
Senior Software Engineer
- Work across our event-driven architecture.
- Write Go and Python backend services.
- Touch endpoint-deployed browser and desktop components.
- Must be comfortable developing in a multi-tenant, microservice-driven SaaS architecture.
- Understand typical scale and security implications for such products.
R&D Engineer
- This is not an open-ended research function.
- Take ambiguous feasibility questions tied to our roadmap and return defensible answers inside a week.
- Build handoff-ready prototypes, then shift into engineering mode to personally drive them through to production.
- Define operational envelopes and degradation boundaries.
- Rigorously deprecate infeasible ideas with documented rationale to avoid future re-litigation.
Intelligence and Data Processing Engineer
- Focus on real browser and desktop forensics.
- Use dev tools and debuggers as your primary instruments.
- Read minified code to find where state lives and analyze network logs to understand undocumented APIs.
- Figure out how AI products work and build the prototyping and automation to maintain our software inventory.
How to Apply
Send an email to eric+hn@sidekicklabs.com with the role in the subject line. Please include:
- A PDF of your resume.
- A quick sentence or two about a tough technical problem you've solved recently.
- Links to your GitHub, personal site, and/or LinkedIn.
Note: I'm Eric, VP of Technology, and I will personally read every email sent to the HN subaddress. You can view my background here.
Website: https://sidekicklabs.com