AI Blockchain Security Engineer
Embedding VC13 days ago
San Francisco, CA, USAMid Level
Responsibilities
- Build AI-assisted systems for smart contract security analysis and vulnerability detection.
- Research and develop AI agents that analyze smart contracts, protocol logic, and cross-chain transaction flows.
- Build internal tooling for automated security investigation, exploit analysis, and threat detection across blockchain ecosystems.
- Improve AI reasoning over large codebases, protocol interactions, wallet activity, and complex execution flows.
- Collaborate with security researchers, protocol engineers, and infrastructure teams on security monitoring and incident response.
- Monitor emerging blockchain attack techniques, AI security trends, and Web3 infrastructure.
Requirements
- Degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, blockchain, or security.
- Experience in blockchain security, smart contract auditing, vulnerability research, or a related area.
- Familiarity with blockchain ecosystems, EVM internals, smart contract execution, and transaction lifecycle analysis.
- Understanding of Web3 attack vectors including reentrancy, access control vulnerabilities, signature replay, oracle manipulation, and cross-chain bridge exploits.
- Familiarity with vulnerability analysis, blockchain security monitoring, attack investigation, or exploit validation.
- Experience building AI workflows, retrieval systems, tool-calling agents, or LLM-powered security tools.
- Strong analytical skills and interest in AI-driven security research and blockchain infrastructure.
- Preferred familiarity with hashing, digital signatures, Merkle trees, MPC, and consensus mechanisms.
Benefits
- Full-time employment.
- On-site work in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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About Embedding VC
Embedding VC is an early-stage venture fund that backs generative AI startups, led by current and former builders and operators. The partnership invests capital and hands-on expertise to help AI founders scale, with a focus on progress toward AGI. Founded in 2023 and headquartered in Menlo Park, California, it operates as a private partnership concentrating on AI-native applications and infrastructure.