Product Security Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Product Security Engineer (AI): Building and scaling the product security function at a high-growth AI startup with an accent on architectural guidance, threat modeling, and secure-by-default engineering practices. Focus on operationalizing security for AI-enabled systems, cloud-native infrastructure, and developer tooling to ensure robust protection at scale.

Location: Must be based in or able to work from Orange County, Denver, Seattle, or San Francisco (Hybrid)

Salary: $185,000 – $220,000

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hirify.global is a venture-backed AI startup providing a real-time compensation intelligence platform for enterprise teams.

What you will do

• Perform architecture reviews, threat modeling, and security design reviews across applications, APIs, and AI-enabled systems.
• Develop security standards, reference architectures, and secure design patterns to enable teams to build securely by default.
• Define and improve the Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) across engineering workflows.
• Design and build reusable security patterns, libraries, and developer tooling to scale security practices.
• Define and operationalize secure patterns for AI-enabled products, agents, and retrieval systems.
• Partner with Platform Engineering on cloud security posture, infrastructure hardening, and secrets management.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Software Engineering experience building and shipping production software.
• Strong programming fundamentals in at least one modern language.
• Experience performing application security reviews, threat modeling, or security design reviews.
• Strong understanding of cloud security, IAM, CI/CD, containers, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Ability to translate security risk into business and engineering terms to influence leadership.
• Must be able to work in a hybrid capacity at one of our engineering sites (Orange County, Denver, Seattle, or San Francisco).

Nice to have

• Experience securing cloud-native infrastructure in AWS environments.
• Experience designing enterprise-facing capabilities such as SAML, SCIM, RBAC, or audit logging.
• Experience building or scaling a Product Security function in a high-growth technology hirify.globalny.
• Experience building or securing AI-enabled products or retrieval systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, curious, and driven team environment.
• Values transparency, ownership, and continuous learning.
• Equity compensation included.
• Focus on in-person collaboration to drive innovation.