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Senior Application Security Engineer, AI and Machine Learning

San Francisco, CaliforniaFull-time$180k2026-05-27 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid · United StatesNo visa sponsorship

Core

Securing AI, machine learning, and inference platforms by building security into modern AI infrastructure, inference systems, and developer platforms.

Role type

Senior Application Security Engineer (AI/ML Infrastructure)

Builds

Secure AI platforms, inference systems, and developer tooling for solo researchers, startups, and enterprises.

Domain

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning / Cloud Security

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Application security engineering, threat modeling, architecture reviews, API security, distributed systems security, cloud environments (AWS/GCP/Azure), containers and Kubernetes, Python/Go scripting, ML pipeline security, model serving architecture review.

Preferred skills

Red teaming, CVE evaluation, GPU/High Performance Computing, LLM/RAG/Agent frameworks, multi-tenant infrastructure security.

Technologies

PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure.

Responsibilities

Perform threat modeling across AI platforms and ML pipelines; Review model serving architectures and inference pipelines; Conduct targeted code reviews for high-risk components; Build security automation for AI and application pipelines; Design isolation and security controls for multi-tenant AI workloads.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC