AI Security Engineer
Obsidian Security3 months ago
Palo Alto, CA, USAMid Level
H1B sponsor
Responsibilities
- Develop expertise in authentication, requested scopes, and risk concentration across ChatGPT Enterprise, Copilot, Gemini, Claude, Glean, and agentic frameworks
- Research emerging AI attack techniques such as prompt injection, tool and agent misuse, RAG poisoning, and over-permissioned integrations
- Build threat models covering identity, data access, non-human identities, and integration risk
- Translate security research into detections and posture checks
- Prototype and ship end-to-end product features using AI and SaaS telemetry
- Build and improve efficient, cost-effective data pipelines
Requirements
- At least 3 years of security engineering experience as a builder with clear ownership of shipped work
- Strong understanding of identity and access control concepts
- Hands-on experience with dbt and a columnar warehouse or query engine such as ClickHouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks
- Ability to communicate clearly across engineers, product managers, and customer security teams
- Preferred: knowledge of SaaS platform APIs, event schemas, permissions, and authentication flows across Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and Okta
- Preferred: knowledge of AI and SaaS security, including OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS, prompt injection, agent and tool-use risks, OAuth abuse, and identity models
Benefits
- Competitive compensation with equity and 401k
- Comprehensive healthcare with dental and vision coverage
- Flexible paid time off and paid holiday time off
- 12 weeks of new parent or family leave
- Personal and professional development resources
Tech Stack
ClickHouseDatabricksdbtGoogle BigQueryGoogle CloudSnowflake
Categories
About Obsidian Security
Obsidian Security builds a SaaS security platform for enterprises to discover and govern third-party app and AI integrations, manage OAuth/API permissions, and detect and respond to identity and SaaS threats. It sells subscriptions to large regulated organizations; named customers include Snowflake, T-Mobile, and Algolia. Founded in 2017 and headquartered in Palo Alto, the privately held company focuses on Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and other major business apps.