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Security Research Engineer, AI Safety and Security Engineering

US, CA, Santa Clara💼 Full-time💰 $224,000–$224,000🗓 2026-07-29 → 2026-09-25

Core

Develop validation and patching methods for software vulnerabilities, ensuring fixes are correct, safe, and preserve existing behavior.

Role type

Senior IC security research engineer (AI safety & security)

Builds

AI-powered tooling for vulnerability validation and safe patch generation

Domain

Cybersecurity, AI safety, software engineering

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

vulnerability research, fuzzing, program analysis, secure development (C/C++/Python), regression testing, behavior preservation, rigorous security judgment

Preferred skills

CVE/advisory publication, building fuzzers/static analyzers/symbolic-execution tools, LLM-based coding agents

Technologies

C, C++, Python, fuzzers, static analyzers, symbolic-execution tools, AI-assisted workflows

Responsibilities

Develop techniques to confirm vulnerabilities are real and reachable; Advance approaches for generating and verifying safe fixes; Define correctness and revalidation standards; Work on bounded vulnerability classes against internal targets

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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