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Doppel

Software Engineer, Simulation

Doppel is hiring a Software Engineer, Simulation for a remote role open to applicants in United States. It pays $135k-$350k a year and Level rates it ; you can apply on Doppel.

Level's read on this job

  • Builds AI ●●●● is how Level rates this software engineer role: the job is building AI systems.
  • This is listed as a remote role.
  • The posting mentions Cursor and AI agents among its tools and skills.
  • Doppel has 23 other open roles on Level.

AI in this role

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Why Join Doppel

Doppel is building the future of social engineering defense. Our AI-native platform uses agentic AI to protect executives, employees, customers, and brands from phishing, impersonation, fraud, and other AI-powered threats across digital channels. We help some of the world’s most recognized brands detect and dismantle attacker infrastructure while strengthening employee resilience through threat-informed training and simulation. By unifying Digital Risk Protection, Human Risk Management and Email Security, Doppel connects threats into a real-time intelligence graph to power faster disruption, smarter defense, and modern security awareness at scale.

Backed by leading investors including Andreessen Horowitz and Bessemer Venture Partners, and trusted by leading enterprises, Doppel is a rapidly growing Series C startup building the future of social engineering defense. Our team combines deep cybersecurity expertise, operational rigor, and startup velocity to solve some of the internet’s most urgent trust and safety challenges.

What We're Building

We're building the AI-native social engineering defense platform.

This means we're designing scalable systems that monitor billions of domains, social media accounts, apps, dark web forums, etc., and leverage AI agents to identify and neutralize digital threats.

What We're Looking For

We’re looking for an experienced fullstack engineer to help build out our new Simulation product. Simulation is a small, fast-moving team inside Doppel (a series C company backed by Bessemer and a16z) building an entirely new product line, think of it as a startup within a startup. We crossed 6 figures within a few months of launching and are on track to hit 1M ARR in Q4.

Our mission: to help companies proactively defend against the next wave of social-engineering attacks. We’re creating AI-powered phishing simulations that use large-language models and voice synthesis to mimic real-world threats - from hyper-personalized emails to high-fidelity “manager calls” that test and train enterprise security teams.

You’ll be joining a team led by ex-Meta and YC founders, already working with Fortune 100 customers. It’s the rare mix of startup-level growth and creativity with established-company backing and stability. The perfect place to move fast, ship real impact, and help define an emerging category.

We only just recently launched it but market traction is growing extremely fast and we need people excited to jump and do whatever it takes to build what our customers desperately want. For example:

  • Build out a “Cursor for phishing simulation” flow that lets users create simulations using natural language..

  • Build out voice deepfakes that use AI to call employees pretending to be their co-worker.

Here are some additional resources on what we built and why.

What We Offer

🚀 A mission-driven culture with low ego, high ownership, deep customer obsession, and exceptional talent density

🍽️ Free lunch and dinner in the office

🌴 Flexible PTO

✈️ Quarterly team offsites

Join Doppel

Doppel is the first platform built to dismantle digital deception at scale. We scan over 150 billion entities daily and deploy continuously adaptive AI SOC agents, paired with expert human analysts, to uncover and disrupt the infrastructure behind phishing, impersonation, and online fraud before attacks can spread. Our Threat Grid turns every customer signal into shared intelligence, making each disruption smarter, faster, and more effective.

We’re not just another cybersecurity company. We’re defining the future of social engineering defense, where trust is protected, and deception becomes unprofitable. Backed by top-tier investors and trusted by some of the world’s most recognized brands, Doppel is growing fast. If you’re driven to solve real-world problems with bold technology, we’d love to meet you.

How we rate this

Software Engineer, Simulation at Doppel rates 83 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Builds AI (AI Level 4 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

Classification

Builds AI. The job is building AI systems.

  1. ●●●● Builds AI80 to 100
  2. ●●●○ Works on AI60 to 79
  3. ●●○○ Uses AI40 to 59
  4. ●○○○ Little AI0 to 39

Levels come from how often the tools, models and workflows of the role are named in the posting itself. Read the description and count the AI tools, models and workflows it names.

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Skills and AI tools this role asks for

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Pay

This job starts at
$135k
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$168k

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Questions you could be asked

  1. How do you decide when an AI agent can act on its own versus asking for approval first?
  2. Walk me through how you've used Cursor in your day-to-day work.
  3. How would you decide a model or AI system is ready to ship?
  4. Tell me about a time a model underperformed in production. How did you find out, and what did you change?

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  • List these exact terms on your resume: AI agents and Cursor. An applicant tracking system matches the wording, not the idea.
  • Attach one line of real, concrete experience to at least one of them. A tool named with nothing behind it rarely survives a human read.
  • Lead with what you built, trained or shipped. This role is judged on the AI system itself, not the tools around it.

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