Backend Engineer, AI Security

What you'll do

Engineers on this team do a mixture of partnering and advising with teams building AI infrastructure and products, and building security infrastructure primitives for AI.

One of our major focuses is building a security tooling layer that sits in the inference path, providing detection and protection against AI-specific threats like prompt injection, jailbreaks, and tool misuse.

Responsibilities

• Build security frameworks integrated with our core AI infrastructure
• Design and implement defenses against AI-specific threats like prompt injection and jailbreaks
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to ensure our AI infrastructure and products are built securely
• Support other engineering teams in integrating security primitives
• Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes
• Design and build systems that help define the state of the art for AI security

Who you are

We're looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.

Minimum requirements

• 5+ years of software development experience
• Experience independently designing and developing medium-to-large projects
• Experience working collaboratively across multiple engineering teams
• Experience writing high-quality code in a major programming language
• Ability to drive clear next steps when working in an ambiguous environment
• Ability to think creatively and reason clearly in a complex problem domain

Preferred qualifications

• Experience developing, deploying, and maintaining reliable infrastructure systems…