Lead Security Engineer
Physical Intelligence1 day ago
Responsibilities
- Build and operate systems that protect models, data, infrastructure, and compute.
- Partner with researchers and engineers on architecture and development workflows.
- Automate access management, infrastructure safeguards, and software delivery checks.
- Write production-quality tools and contribute fixes directly to engineering repositories.
- Find and exploit vulnerabilities, assess their impact, and validate fixes with system owners.
- Set security priorities and bring in outside expertise where needed.
Requirements
- Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or similar languages, including the ability to review unfamiliar code and ship maintainable software.
- A track record of partnering with engineering teams to solve problems from discovery through rollout.
- Experience operating and securing cloud infrastructure, including Linux, IAM, networking, containers, or CI/CD.
- Connections in the security community and curiosity about emerging threats and techniques.
- Hands-on offensive security experience and sound judgment about real-world risk.
- Bonus: experience securing AI/ML infrastructure or agent execution environments.
- Bonus: experience building detection systems or helping establish a security function.
- Bonus: excitement about robotics and a desire to learn.
About Physical Intelligence
Physical Intelligence builds general-purpose AI for the physical world, developing foundation models and full-stack robotic systems for robots and other actuated devices. The privately held company was founded in 2024 and focuses on taking designs from prototype to high-volume production, including actuation, mechatronics, and manufacturing process development. Its work aims to power today’s robots and future hardware across industries.