Staff AI Security Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Staff AI Security Engineer (Cloud/AI): Designing and implementing security controls across AI/ML infrastructure and agentic workflows with an accent on MLOps/MLSecOps, threat modeling, and adversarial testing. Focus on building secure-by-default foundations for AI development and managing AI-adjacent risks in the corporate environment.

Location: Hybrid (Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA). Remote considered for candidates > 30 miles from an office. Must be a U.S. person (citizen, permanent resident, refugee, or asylee) to comply with export control regulations.

Salary: $188,000 – $275,000

Company

hirify.global is The Essential Cloud for AI™, providing specialized infrastructure, tools, and expertise to enable innovators to build and scale AI.

What you will do

• Design and implement security controls for AI/ML infrastructure, including model artifact storage, data lineage, and ML pipeline security (MLSecOps).
• Develop AI security policies and threat models for model development, training pipelines, and agentic systems.
• Build security guardrails for agentic workflows, including sandboxing, execution boundaries, and input/output validation.
• Lead the secure adoption of AI tools across the organization, evaluating vendors and defining data sharing policies.
• Conduct threat modeling and adversarial testing against prompt injection, data poisoning, and model extraction.
• Influence architecture across platform, security, and ML teams to embed security into AI platforms and developer tooling.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in security engineering across cloud, application, or infrastructure.
• Direct experience with AI/ML systems, including LLMs, training pipelines, or MLOps.
• Strong coding proficiency in Go, Python, or similar languages.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containerized environments, and major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Must be a U.S. person (citizen, lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee) for export control compliance.

Nice to have

• Experience building or securing LLM-based systems or agent frameworks like LangChain.
• Background in adversarial ML or AI red teaming.
• Knowledge of confidential computing and secure enclaves.
• Experience in high-performance or GPU-centric environments.

Culture & Benefits

• 100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k) with generous employer match and Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).
• Flexible PTO and comprehensive mental wellness benefits through Spring Health.
• Catered lunch daily at office and data center locations.
• Paid parental leave and family-forming support through Carrot.
• Support for professional growth with tuition reimbursement.