Ripple

Senior Staff Security Engineer, AI Security

Ripple
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Base Salary

$224k - $300k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Drive Ripple’s AI Security technical strategy and roadmap across AI systems, agentic workflows, and the AI development lifecycle.
  • Design and implement security controls for LLM-integrated and agentic AI systems, including sandboxing, identity and permission scoping, runtime monitoring, and containment.
  • Own security guardrails, AI provenance standards, dual-review requirements, and audit trail controls for AI-assisted development.
  • Lead security reviews and risk assessments for LLM APIs, SaaS copilots, AI code editors, agentic workflows, MCP servers, and vendor-embedded AI.
  • Build and scale Shadow AI detection, enforce acceptable-use policies, and maintain an auditable AI security perimeter.
  • Advise on agentic AI threats including MCP server security, tool poisoning, prompt injection, and excessive agency.
  • Contribute to industry frameworks, regulatory engagement, and published research on responsible AI security.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of Security Engineering experience with depth in at least two domains such as Product Security, Cloud Security, or Security Operations.
  • Meaningful hands-on experience with AI or ML security and strong knowledge of prompt injection, jailbreaks, data poisoning, model extraction, RAG manipulation, tool poisoning, excessive agency, and MCP vulnerabilities.
  • Experience securing agentic AI systems through sandboxing, permission scoping, human-in-the-loop design, or runtime monitoring.
  • Fluency in cloud security on AWS, GCP, or Azure; CI/CD pipeline security; container and Kubernetes security; IAM; and API security.
  • Experience with threat modeling approaches such as STRIDE, MITRE ATLAS, or OWASP LLM Top 10.
  • Experience in FinTech, crypto, or regulated environments is preferred, along with familiarity with NYDFS, MAS, DORA, or SOC 2.
  • Ability to influence technical direction across Engineering, Product, and Security without direct authority and build solutions in ambiguous environments.

Benefits

  • Professional development budget and opportunities to work with experienced industry leaders.
  • Hybrid in-office collaboration with managers and teams deciding which 10+ days per month employees attend in person.
  • Team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours, and bi-weekly all-company meetings.
  • Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support.
  • Employee giving match and mobile phone stipend.
  • R&R days, generous vacation, wellness reimbursement, and weekly onsite and virtual wellness programming.
  • Industry-leading parental leave and family planning benefits.
  • Catered lunches, stocked kitchens, premium snacks and beverages, and company events.
  • Benefits listed apply to full-time employees.
Ripple

About Ripple

501-1,000 employees

Using proven crypto and blockchain technology honed over a decade, Ripple’s enterprise-grade solutions are faster, more transparent, and more cost-effective than traditional financial services. Our customers use these solutions to source crypto, facilitate instant payments, empower their treasury, engage new audiences, lower capital requirements, and drive new revenue. Founded in 2012, Ripple's vision is to enable a world where value moves as seamlessly as information flows today—an Internet of Value. Ripple is the only enterprise blockchain company today with products in commercial use. Ripple’s global payments network includes over 300 customers across 40+ countries and six continents.