# Security Engineer, Detection and Response

**Company:** [Writer](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/writer)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA, New York, NY
**Role:** Security Engineering
**Salary:** $132k – $258k/yr
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Python, Kql, Spl, SIEM, Detection Engineering, Incident Response, Threat Hunting, Digital Forensics, Ai Security, Machine Learning, Gpu Clusters, Cloud Infrastructure, Detection-As-Code, Prompt Injection, Model Extraction
**Posted:** 2026-09-04

> Build detection, threat-hunting, and automated incident-response capabilities for AI infrastructure, including GPU clusters, training pipelines, and model deployments. The role requires substantial security operations experience, strong programming skills, and expertise in distributed systems or AI/ML environments.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design and implement detections for AI-specific threats, including prompt injection, model extraction, data poisoning, adversarial examples, and unauthorized access to training datasets or model weights.
- Build automated response playbooks and orchestration workflows to contain and remediate threats.
- Coordinate security incident response across Cloud, AppSec, Enterprise, and AI Security teams, including forensic investigations of training-pipeline attacks and model manipulation.
- Proactively hunt for threats across GPU clusters and training infrastructure, analyze model outputs for compromise, reproduce AI-specific vulnerabilities, and identify visibility gaps.
- Build detection-as-code frameworks with version control and automated deployment.
- Onboard telemetry from AI training infrastructure and inference endpoints and create dashboards for model security metrics, GPU utilization, and sensitive research-data access.
- Translate threat research into production detections, monitor GPU clusters, detect customer-impacting incidents, and enable security guardrails.
- Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation for critical AI security incidents.

## Requirements
- 3–5+ years of experience in security operations, detection engineering, or incident response, specifically securing AI/ML infrastructure, high-performance computing environments, or distributed systems at scale.
- Strong programming skills in Python, KQL, SPL, or similar languages.
- Experience with SIEM platforms, detection technologies, and forensic investigation techniques.
- Ability to build detections for novel attack techniques and conduct forensics in complex distributed environments.
- Experience securing high-value intellectual property, automating incident response, and conducting proactive threat hunting.

## Benefits
- Paid time off and company holidays.
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
- Paid parental leave, fertility and family-planning support.
- Flexible spending and health savings account options.
- Wellness and learning stipends.
- Company and team off-sites.
- Stock options and 401(k).

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