Security Engineer, Host Assurance (AI)

TL;DR

Security Engineer, Host Assurance (AI): Building and operating core security infrastructure for bare-metal platforms across hirify.global’s global infrastructure with an accent on establishing trust in hardware platforms. Focus on designing and implementing systems for machine identity, certificate issuance, host attestation, and baseline verification tooling.

Location: Preferably based in San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA. Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week. Relocation assistance is offered to new employees.

Salary: $293K – $385K + Offers Equity

Company

hirify.global is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.

What you will do

• Design, build, and operate components of the Host Assurance platform to establish trust in bare-metal hosts.
• Ensure hosts are verifiably trustworthy from delivery and installation through secure bootstrap.
• Build and improve systems such as machine identity, certificate issuance, and host attestation.
• Validate delivered hardware and firmware against vendor claims and detect drift over time.
• Eliminate insecure bootstrap patterns and partner with provisioning teams to deliver secure approaches.
• Participate in incident response and debugging for security-critical infrastructure.

Requirements

• Strong software engineering experience building and operating reliable production systems at scale.
• Deep expertise in at least one relevant domain such as PKI, HSMs, machine identity, applied cryptography, secure boot, firmware or hardware security, host attestation, or low-level platform security.
• Comfortable working across systems boundaries, from services and APIs down to host, boot, firmware, or hardware-adjacent trust mechanisms.
• Ability to write production quality code and reason clearly about failure modes and operational safety.
• Experience replacing fragile or manual security mechanisms with durable infrastructure.
• Balance rigor with pragmatism, and care about making strong security controls deployable in real-world environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week.
• Relocation assistance to new employees.
• Equal opportunity employer.
• Committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.