CareerPlan

Staff + Software Security Engineer, Labs

San Francisco, CAFull-time$320k2026-10-05 → 2026-11-10

Core

Building high-risk, high-value security prototypes and infrastructure for frontier AI systems, focusing on isolation, cryptographic verification, and defense against state-level adversaries.

Role type

Staff+ Software Security Engineer (Research & Infrastructure)

Builds

High-assurance research clusters, attestation chains, hypervisor-isolated microVMs, and formally verified ML compilation pipelines.

Domain

AI Safety, Cybersecurity, Systems Security

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Firmware/hardware security, applied cryptography, OS/kernel/hypervisor internals, formal methods, reverse engineering, strong programming (Python/Rust/Go/C++)

Preferred skills

Offensive security/red teaming, ML infrastructure experience, airgapped/high-side environment operations

Technologies

Zero-knowledge proofs, attestation chains, hypervisors, ML training/inference pipelines

Responsibilities

Scope and build end-to-end security prototypes, stand up novel security infrastructure, collaborate with research teams to test workflow resilience, document experimental results, and influence future security bets.

Seniority

Staff+, hands-on IC with strategic project ownership