AI got autonomy. Defense didn't.
AI agents act on behalf of more than a billion people every day. The independent layer that keeps them honest does not exist yet. We are building it. We are hiring.
Defense for the agent economy.
The agent economy will move 15 trillion dollars by 2030. The infrastructure to keep those agents honest does not exist. Banks have audit trails. Courts have evidence. AI agents have neither. We are the layer that makes them accountable.
Every era of computing needed an independent trust layer. SSL/TLS for the web. Zero Trust for cloud. The agent economy needs one too. Without it, every breach is a forensic exercise after the damage. With it, the damage is preventable.
We are that layer. One Rust engine running on every surface where AI acts. Local-first. Cryptographically verifiable. Protocol-backed. We do not watch. We defend.
The people we hire understand what is at stake. They build for correctness over velocity. They hold a hard line on voice and design. They see attacks before the adversary does. If you are reading this and the work matters to you, write to us.
The principles, not the perks.
Local-first
Every Vigil deployment runs on the user's device. There is no telemetry to a server we control. The user owns the keys. This is the architecture, not a feature, and it is not negotiable. If you are uncomfortable defending that constraint to investors, customers, or yourself, you should not be at Vigil.
Cryptographically verifiable
Every action Vigil takes generates a sealed audit record that survives without us. Auditors, courts, and insurers verify it without contacting Vigil. We trust math, not assertions. We ship code that holds up to forensic review, not press releases.
Engineering discipline
We root-cause every bug. Byte-identical builds across machines. Manual gates between commit and production. Detection spec locked, deviations blocked. We move slow at the boundaries that matter and fast where they do not. If the words "just ship it" make you nervous, we are aligned.
Mission-driven hiring
We hire for the work, not the framework or the salary. If AI accountability is the most important problem you can work on right now, you belong at Vigil. If it is one of several interesting options, you probably do not.
Singapore and Delaware
Operations in Singapore. Legal entity in Delaware. Global ambition, deliberate footprint. We hire where the right person is. The only constraint is overlap with Singapore or US east coast hours. We do not hire for hours on Slack. We hire for what shipped this quarter.
Senior-only, for now
Every hire is senior. Every hire owns a domain end to end. We are not building a team that needs management overhead. We are building one that ships. Junior hires come later, when there is mentorship structure to deserve them.
Roles drop soon.
Specific roles posting soon. If you think you should be at Vigil, write to us with what you would build here. We read every email. Vague pitches go unanswered. Specific ones get a reply within one business day.
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