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Security Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering

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Boston, MA, USA +5 moreMid Level
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Base Salary

$159k - $213k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Conduct security design reviews, code reviews, architecture assessments, threat modeling, and penetration testing for production AI systems.
  • Identify vulnerabilities and work with Forward Deployed Engineering teams to implement fixes before production release.
  • Build and maintain security automation, including scanning tools, security gates, guardrail testing scripts, secrets detection, and dependency vulnerability checks.
  • Implement controls for AI-specific threats such as prompt injection, unsafe outputs, data isolation, model API vulnerabilities, and guardrail weaknesses.
  • Support incident response, triage, root cause analysis, and remediation for production AI systems.
  • Create reusable security playbooks, runbooks, accelerator modules, templates, and reference configurations.
  • Work alongside delivery teams in customer environments and travel up to 25%.

Requirements

  • US citizenship is required.
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent is required.
  • At least two years of experience in threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration, or network security.
  • At least two years of non-internship experience troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating tasks with command-line tools.
  • At least two years of non-internship experience with scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages.
  • At least two years of experience identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
  • At least two years of hands-on experience building AI or agentic systems.
  • Preferred experience includes service-oriented architectures, microservices, web services, AWS technologies, security and compliance standards, and a top-secret-or-higher US government clearance.
  • Preferred knowledge of at least two of Scala, Java, Python, C, C++, or Go.

Benefits

  • Health insurance including medical, dental, vision, prescription, basic life and AD&D insurance, and optional supplemental life plans.
  • Employee assistance and mental health support, medical advice line, flexible spending accounts, and adoption and surrogacy reimbursement coverage.
  • 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave.
  • Mentorship, knowledge-sharing, and career-development resources.
  • Customer-embedded work with up to 25% travel; listed locations include Mountain View, Boston, New York, Dallas, Arlington, and Seattle.

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