Member of Technical Staff, Security Engineering

Location: Palo Alto, United States; hybrid, with in-office attendance required at least three times a week.

Salary: $132K–$411K annually, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global is an AI lab developing causal, multimodal general world models that learn to predict and interact with the world over long horizons.

What you will do

• Map valuable assets and design access, copying, and sharing strategies for people, devices, and services.
• Perform threat modeling and risk assessments, then build the controls and infrastructure needed to address systematic risks.
• Strengthen security across cloud infrastructure, identity and access, secrets management, and development workflows.
• Create logging, detections, and incident-response capabilities for account compromise, sensitive downloads, external sharing, and permission changes.
• Test defenses and recovery procedures, manage external security assessments, and drive remediation.
• Partner with People and Legal on data handling, onboarding, and offboarding.

Requirements

• 8+ years of software engineering experience with deep security expertise, including independently leading company-wide security initiatives.
• Demonstrated delivery in threat modeling, incident response, and prioritization.
• Experience with cloud IAM, Linux, containers, networking, secrets management, and CI/CD.
• Experience managing penetration tests and external security partners.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes security primitives, including RBAC, namespaces, network policies, and service accounts.
• Clear communication and effective collaboration with leadership and technical and nontechnical teams.
• Passion for AI safety and the role of security engineering in building trustworthy AI systems.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with ML infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time employment with equity.
• Regular in-office collaboration is expected at least three days per week.
• Work closely with researchers, engineers, leadership, People, and Legal.
• Focus on solving complex security challenges together as the organization scales.