CareerPlan

Security Engineer / Research Engineer, RL Security

San Francisco, CAFull-time$320k–$405k2026-10-20 → 2026-11-10
HybridVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Design, build, and operate security controls for large-scale reinforcement learning training systems and the underlying infrastructure.

Role type

Senior Security Engineer (RL Systems)

Builds

Secure RL training pipelines, orchestration environments, and shared security tooling for large distributed fleets.

Domain

AI Safety / Reinforcement Learning Infrastructure

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, Rust/C++/Go, Linux, containers, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, security fundamentals, observability, design documentation

Preferred skills

ML training/inference infrastructure at scale, infrastructure security (isolation, access control, networking), Kubernetes, sandboxed code execution, research team support, RL or LLM training workloads

Technologies

Python, Rust, C++, Go, Kubernetes, Linux, Cloud

Responsibilities

Design and operate security controls for RL training systems; Review code and designs across the RL stack to find and fix security issues; Build shared libraries and tooling for RL engineers; Develop observability for large fleets; Collaborate with researchers to ensure security changes preserve performance and correctness

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC