Application Security Engineer (AI)

Location: Chicago, Illinois; hybrid policy with at least three days per week in the office

Base salary: $190,000–$210,000 annually for candidates in the Greater Chicago Area. Additional bonus or sales incentive eligibility and RSUs may apply.

Company

Fin, part of Salesforce and powered by AI, provides customer service automation and customer experience products for businesses.

What you will do

• Own, design, build, and operate tier-zero security capabilities for secure deployment and management of Fin.
• Develop customer-facing controls including authentication, SAML/SSO, permissions, audit and activity logging, malicious URL scanning, and enterprise security features.
• Partner with engineering teams throughout the software development lifecycle to build secure products and services.
• Conduct architecture reviews, threat modeling, security assessments, and application security initiatives.
• Build security tooling, automation, and developer-facing components that make secure development scalable.
• Lead security incident response, investigations, remediation, on-call participation, and initiatives addressing risks in AI-powered products.

Requirements

• Application security, product security, or security engineering experience in a SaaS environment.
• Strong software engineering skills, including designing, building, and operating production systems.
• Deep knowledge of modern application security threats, secure software development, and threat modeling.
• Experience designing, building, or securing authentication, authorization, identity, or enterprise security capabilities.
• Experience with architecture reviews and security assessments for complex systems.
• Hands-on security incident response experience, including leading investigations and remediation.
• Strong programming skills and experience building tools, automation, or developer-focused solutions.
• Comfort using modern AI-assisted development tools and communicating security concepts clearly with engineering teams.
• Pragmatic approach to balancing security, customer impact, and engineering velocity. Proof of eligibility to work in the United States is required.

Nice to have

• Experience with authentication, SAML/SSO, identity, or access management capabilities.
• Experience securing AI-powered products or familiarity with large language models, agentic systems, retrieval-based architectures, or AI tool integrations.
• Experience building security automation or security-focused platform capabilities at scale.
• Familiarity with cloud security, infrastructure security, or distributed systems.
• Experience in large-scale SaaS environments and high-growth companies.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work with flexibility to work from home and an expectation of at least three office days per week.
• Benefits and programs supporting health, wellbeing, family, time away, and financial security.
• Regular employees may receive bonus or incentive compensation, RSUs, and location-dependent benefits.
• Open, accepting, collaborative workplace focused on core values and non-discrimination.