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Staff Product Security Engineer

San Francisco, CA - US💼 Full-time💰 $250,000–$250,000🗓 2025-05-22 → 2026-09-26

Core

Strengthen security posture across applications, infrastructure, and distributed AI systems via advanced penetration testing, AI/ML attack surface research, and secure-by-design guardrails.

Role type

Staff Product Security Engineer (AI/ML & Infrastructure)

Builds

Secure AI/ML pipelines, hardened base images, policy-as-code frameworks, and production-grade security tooling.

Domain

AI Infrastructure / Cloud Security / Offensive Security

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure | product features

Required skills

manual penetration testing, red team operations, adversary simulation, LLM pipeline security, vector database security, RAG architecture security, exploit development, secure system design, CI/CD security integration, container security, Go/Python/Rust software engineering

Preferred skills

C2 framework usage, AI security research publications, high-performance computing security, policy-as-code design at scale

Technologies

Kubernetes, Cobalt Strike, Sliver, Havoc, ReAct, Reflexion, SAST, DAST, SCA

Responsibilities

Perform advanced manual penetration testing across complex applications and distributed microservice ecosystems; Lead offensive security initiatives including red team operations and adversary simulation; Secure AI/ML systems end-to-end including LLM pipelines and agentic workflows; Identify and research novel attack surfaces unique to LLMs and autonomous systems; Influence secure system design across the SDLC and embed security into CI/CD pipelines; Integrate and operationalize security tooling and drive remediation of complex vulnerabilities; Build internal security guardrails such as hardened base images and policy-as-code frameworks.

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with strategic influence

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