Principal Engineer, AI Security
Lila Sciences10 hours ago
Base Salary
$252k - $374k/yr
Responsibilities
- Translate the AI security roadmap into delivered controls with measurable outcomes.
- Design and implement security controls for training and inference pipelines, model registries, MCP servers, and agent runtimes.
- Maintain continuous compliance of AI infrastructure against internal standards and applicable frameworks.
- Drive vulnerability remediation across AI infrastructure, models, and dependencies through closure with system owners.
- Reduce risk across data, models, pipelines, and agentic systems through threat modeling, control design, and adversarial assessment.
- Partner with AI Platform, AI Research, ML Operations, Science, and AI Safety to embed security at design time.
Requirements
- Strong background in security engineering, cloud security, or DevSecOps with hands-on experience securing production infrastructure.
- Working knowledge of AI/ML systems, the ML lifecycle, and AI-specific risks including prompt injection, model and data poisoning, insecure agent tooling, and inference-time threats.
- Experience with software supply chain security and dependency and vulnerability management.
- Experience implementing cloud data security controls including classification, data flow mapping, access control, and encryption.
- Proven ability to partner across engineering teams and drive cross-functional remediation to closure.
- Comfort operating with ambiguity in a fast-moving research environment.
- Bonus: hands-on AWS security experience, SBOM tooling at scale, familiarity with AI governance and assurance frameworks such as NIST AI RMF, or MAESTRO-style threat modeling for agentic systems.
Benefits
- Full-time U.S. employees receive medical, dental, and vision coverage; employer-paid life and disability insurance; flexible time off; generous company-wide holidays; paid parental leave; educational assistance; commuter benefits including bike share memberships for office-based employees; and a subsidized lunch program.
- Full-time employees outside the U.S. receive a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region.
- The role offers bonus potential and generous early-stage equity.
- The position is full-time; work arrangement and contract duration are not stated.
About Lila Sciences
Lila Sciences builds an AI-driven research platform and autonomous lab systems for life science, chemistry, and materials R&D teams. Its products combine large AI models with robotic instruments to plan, run, and analyze experiments, integrating into customer-specific scientific workflows. The privately held company serves pharma, materials, and energy organizations and is venture-backed, including a Series A financing in 2025.