10 hours ago
Base Salary
$147k - $210k/yr
Responsibilities
- Reconstruct multi-step Chain-of-Thought and tool-call trajectories to assess anomalous agent behavior.
- Coordinate live containment and blast-radius scoping across DeepMind teams and PSS Detection and Response.
- Build AI agent skills, detection rubrics, and automated forensic pipelines using Python and SQL.
- Investigate high-ambiguity security events and hunt for novel agentic behaviors across frontier models.
- Develop detections and agentic security tooling for evolving frontier models.
- Provide rotational on-call support, including weekday daytime triage and periodic weekend coverage.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 2 years of experience with security engineering, computer and network security, and security protocols.
- At least 2 years of experience with security assessments, security design reviews, or threat modeling.
- At least 2 years of coding experience in one or more general-purpose languages.
- Experience using Agentic AI frameworks or developer kits to build and deploy autonomous AI systems.
- Experience in a technical security role such as security engineering, security research, DevSecOps, incident response, SOC analysis, malware research, or threat analysis.
- Preferred: 5 years of experience in security engineering, detection engineering, incident response, or threat hunting.
- Preferred: experience investigating security events across Linux, containerized or sandboxed environments, cloud infrastructure, or corporate endpoints.
- Preferred: experience building or tuning behavioral detections, LLM-based evaluators, or multi-agent workflows and measuring detection effectiveness.
- Preferred: experience with on-call operations, security escalations, cross-functional collaboration, and internal security, data, or AI ecosystems.
- Preferred: knowledge of frontier AI and agentic security risks, sandbox escape, prompt injection, or training environment tampering.
Benefits
- US base pay is $147000 - $210000 plus a 15% bonus target, equity, and benefits.
- New York-based role with rotational on-call coverage, including weekday daytime triage and periodic weekend on-call support.
- Google benefits information is provided in the posting.
About Google
Google builds consumer and enterprise software and services including Search, Android, YouTube, Chrome, Maps, Gmail, and Google Cloud. Its business model centers on digital advertising and paid cloud, software, and hardware offerings (e.g., Pixel and Nest) for consumers, developers, and organizations. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Google operates globally as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.