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Senior Security Engineer, Agentic AI

100k – 220kUnited StatesRemote5+ YOE
Summary

Senior Security Engineer specializing in Agentic AI Security to discover and exploit novel vulnerabilities in agentic AI systems, develop prompt injection attacks, and conduct security assessments of AI pipelines and frameworks.

About the role

Agentic AI Security Assessments

  • Conduct comprehensive application security assessments of agentic AI pipelines, tools, and frameworks
  • Examine vulnerabilities in model architectures, guardrails, and deployment infrastructure
  • Develop mitigation strategies

Prompt Injection Research & Development

  • Develop and share novel prompt injection techniques targeting agentic workflows
  • Focus on indirect injection via tool outputs, multi-turn manipulation, and cross-agent exploitation
  • Produce actionable attack libraries and defensive countermeasures

Application Security Assessment

  • Conduct security assessments of client code bases using static analysis, dynamic testing, and manual code review
  • Identify vulnerabilities and develop mitigation strategies at the intersection of application security and Agentic AI security

Threat Modeling

  • Conduct threat modeling and risk assessments to proactively identify potential risks
  • Develop mitigation strategies for future prevention
  • Focus on prompt injection attack surfaces in agentic orchestration layers

Client Engagement

  • Work with leading industry teams to review system code and architecture
  • Help assure products through system analysis and modeling

AI Policy & Compliance Initiatives

  • Develop and contribute to AI regulatory frameworks
  • Establish assurance methods and auditing processes for mission-critical AI applications
  • Ensure alignment with emerging industry standards and safety requirements

Requirements

  • Demonstrated interest and experience in agentic AI security
  • Ability to identify and mitigate AI-specific vulnerabilities across complex systems
  • Hands-on experience with prompt injection attacks and defenses
  • Deep understanding of AI/ML architectures, frameworks (PyTorch, JAX, LangChain, RAG systems), and MLOps practices
  • Robust security engineering expertise
  • Track record of conducting technical security assessments of software
  • Experience with software and system hardening, security policy analysis, and implementing security measures
  • Practical experience designing and executing prompt injection workflows against production LLM systems, agentic pipelines, and tool-use environments
  • Familiarity with emerging taxonomies and mitigation approaches
  • Strong knowledge of multiple programming languages: Rust, Go, Kotlin, Swift, Objective-C, JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, Ruby, C, C++
  • Creative and adversarial mindset with passion for discovering novel attack vectors
  • Ability to effectively communicate complex security concepts to diverse stakeholders

Compensation & Benefits

  • Base salary: $100,000 - $220,000
  • Performance-based bonuses
  • Fully company-paid health, dental, vision, disability, and life insurance
  • 401(k) plan with 5% match
  • 20 days paid vacation
  • 4 months parental leave
  • $1,000 work-from-home stipend
  • $750 annual learning & development stipend
  • Company-sponsored all-team celebrations
  • Philanthropic contribution matching up to $2,000 annually
Skills
PyTorchJAXLangChainRAGPythonRustGoJavaScriptTypeScriptC++
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