Staff AI Security Engineer
Spring HealthBase Salary
$239k - $270k/yr
Responsibilities
- Define and evolve the AI security strategy across product and corporate environments.
- Lead secure design and threat modeling for LLMs, agentic workflows, and retrieval pipelines.
- Identify and mitigate prompt injection, data exfiltration, model abuse, and privilege escalation risks.
- Build scalable AI security guardrails and tooling for safe experimentation.
- Establish AI governance covering identity, access control, auditability, and observability.
- Lead the AI Red Team and conduct proactive adversarial security testing.
- Design and implement near-real-time AI observability pipelines for anomalous behavior and policy violations.
- Develop and operationalize AI incident response playbooks and conduct recurring simulations.
- Partner with product and engineering teams to enable responsible AI innovation.
- Mentor engineers and champion secure AI development standards.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in a software engineering discipline, including at least 5+ years focused on security.
- Hands-on experience securing AI/ML systems and conducting AI red teaming against LLMs, agentic workflows, or RAG systems.
- Experience developing or implementing automated LLM vulnerability testing for prompt injection and data exfiltration.
- Strong foundation in application security, threat modeling, secure design, identity, and access control.
- Demonstrated ability to build tools and automation with a developer mindset.
- Experience influencing senior engineers and cross-functional stakeholders across product, legal, and compliance.
- Track record of mentoring engineers and cultivating an organizational security culture.
- Strong working knowledge of modern developer tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and Git-based collaboration.
- Ability to translate emerging AI risks into pragmatic, scalable security controls and operate in ambiguity.
- Ownership and continuous learning in AI security.
Benefits
- Hybrid role based in San Francisco with an expectation of working in the office 2–3 days per week; candidates must be local or able to relocate within 90 days.
- Occasional travel for team on-sites is required.
- Health, dental, and vision benefits begin on the first day, with access to One Medical, HSA, and FSA plans.
- Employer-sponsored 401(k) match of up to 2%.
- Annual no-cost mental healthcare visits for employees and dependents through the Spring Health network.
- Paid vacation, sick leave, and company holidays.
- Parental leave after six months of tenure: 18 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- Access to Noom, Carrot fertility support, Wellhub, and BrightHorizons care services.
- Up to $1,000 per year for professional development reimbursement.
- $200 per year donation matching.
About Spring Health
At Spring Health™, we help employers modernize their behavioral health benefits with the most effective, comprehensive solution for employee mental wellbeing. Our offering functions as a single front door to any type of care - from digital exercises, to EAP services, to coaching, therapy, or medication. We use a proprietary assessment and machine-learning technology to understand all of the conditions a person may be experiencing, and use those results to match them to a care plan personalized to their needs. Each member has access to a Care Navigator to help guide them through their options, assist in booking appointments with therapists, and connect them to domain experts across work-life, legal, or financial services. This innovative, personalized approach to care, paired with a seamless, high-touch member experience makes Spring Health™ the most holistic, effective behavioral health benefit for modern, people-first employers. Suicidal crisis or emotional distress – For immediate help for you or someone else, call 1-800-273-8255. Available 24/7.