AI Security Engineer
$189k - $243k • Remote • Seattle Office • FullTime
Posted 29d ago
Job Location
Seattle Office
Tech Stack
Remote Work Policy
Fully remote
Employment Type
FullTime
Categories
Applied AI Engineer
About the job
Plaid is seeking an AI Security Engineer to be the first line of defense for AI security within the company. This role involves reviewing new AI technologies to identify and mitigate security risks before and after deployment. The engineer will design and implement controls, guardrails, and identity management systems to enable Plaid to leverage AI safely and aggressively without compromising security. This is a critical role in ensuring Plaid can be a leader in AI, both internally and externally, while maintaining a secure environment.
Responsibilities
- Review AI systems and integrations for security risks before and after deployment.
- Design and deploy guardrails, sandboxes, and other controls for AI agents.
- Build or implement systems to track and manage AI identities and their access.
- Detect and mitigate prompt injection across Plaid's AI surface area.
- Conduct AI-focused security reviews and establish security standards for other teams.
- Reduce AI-related incidents and accelerate AI feature shipping through scalable controls.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience securing AI technologies.
- Experience with at least one of: deploying guardrails/sandboxes, managing AI identities, detecting/mitigating prompt injection, running AI security reviews, or implementing AI security tooling.
- 3-6 years of experience.
- Experience at a frontier AI lab or defending production AI systems at scale.
- Experience in Infrastructure Security, Cloud Security, Platform Security, Corporate Security, Security Operations (SecOps), and/or Detection & Response.
- Software security review, SDLC, vulnerability discovery, and/or offensive security experience.
Benefits
- Equity and/or commission
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)