Lead Security Engineer
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence2 months ago
Base Salary
$176k - $265k/yr
Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain security policies, standards, documentation, and system security plans.
- Maintain and prioritize a backlog of security investments.
- Conduct security assessments across cloud infrastructure, ML pipelines, and application code and mitigate identified vulnerabilities.
- Investigate and respond to security incidents, lead root-cause analysis, and drive remediation to closure.
- Build tooling for security compliance, observability, governance, audit logging, access control, vulnerability management, and configuration baselines.
- Partner with research and engineering teams to address security concerns and improve secure-development practices.
- Evaluate and secure SaaS platforms through vendor risk assessments, access reviews, data-handling reviews, and multi-tenant data-isolation assessments.
- Advise organizational and technical leaders by translating security risks into practical recommendations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 8–10 years of overall software or infrastructure engineering experience.
- At least 5 years of focused experience in security engineering, application security, or security architecture, ideally including ownership of a security program.
- Hands-on experience conducting security and compliance audits and implementing or assessing controls, including experience such as NIST 800-171.
- Ability to address ambiguous, high-stakes problems and build a security program from the ground up.
- Ability to advise non-security technical leaders and translate technical risk into actionable recommendations.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, employee assistance, health savings, healthcare reimbursement, and flexible spending account plans.
- 401(k) plan, annual bonuses, and participation in a long-term incentive plan.
- $125 per month for commuting or internet expenses and $200 per month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
- Up to 10 sick days, 7 personal days, 20 vacation days, and 12 paid holidays annually.
- Weekly Ai2 Academy lectures, ongoing education opportunities, generous family leave, and a stated emphasis on work/life balance.
- Seattle office location with catered lunches five times per week, kayaks and paddleboards, and an expected office-based work arrangement; on-site requirements vary by position and team.
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About The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) is a Seattle-based nonprofit research institute that advances AI through open models, datasets, and tools, and runs applied projects in NLP, vision, robotics, and conservation. It creates widely used resources such as Semantic Scholar and AllenNLP, and operates the AI2 Incubator to spin out startups. Founded in 2014 by Paul Allen, it partners with academia and industry and publishes open research.