AI Infrastructure Security Engineer

SwiftCruit

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 120,000 - 160,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary plus equity

Daily lunches

Commuter benefits

401(k)

Medical, Dental, and Vision

Unlimited PTO

Job summary

BrainCo in San Francisco is seeking a Security Engineer to secure its AI platform's infrastructure. In this hands-on role, you’ll be responsible for end-to-end security, collaborating closely with engineering teams to build secure systems using cutting-edge technology.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of security engineering experience, strong cloud security knowledge, and a passion for building secure infrastructures. Join us to work at the frontier of AI technology!

Qualifications

5+ years of experience in security engineering, infrastructure, or SRE.
Experience securing production systems at scale.
Fluency in cloud security fundamentals.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and Linux.

Responsibilities

Build the security foundations of the AI platform.
Harden infrastructure from cloud to CI/CD.
Implement Zero Trust principles.
Design secure execution environments for customer data.
Build security guardrails using Infrastructure-as-Code.
Own threat modeling and incident prevention.
Design bespoke VPCs and customer deployments.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams on code shipping.

Skills

Security engineering

Infrastructure

Kubernetes

Cloud security fundamentals

Linux Systems

Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform)

Authentication and authorization systems

Tools

Terraform

AWS

GCP

Azure

Python

Job description

About Brain Co.

Brain Co. is an applied AI startup co-founded by Jared Kushner and Elad Gil, and backed by leading Silicon Valley builders including Patrick Collison and Andrej Karpathy. We are building AI applications for the world’s most important institutions, delivering impact on real-world problems across governments, healthcare systems, and critical industries.

Our progress so far:

Automated construction permitting for a sovereign government 80% faster, unlocking $375M+ in value
Optimized supply chains for a leading global energy company 30% lower cost, 99% reliability, preventing $100M+ in losses
Streamlined hospital patient care across national health systems 40% better outcomes, 80% less admin work

Company momentum:

Raised a $55M Series A from leading investors
Built a team of 70+ AI experts from Tesla, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, and Databricks

At Brain Co., we focus on applying frontier AI to real institutional challenges, working alongside governments, healthcare systems, and critical industries to modernize how essential services operate.

We are looking for leaders who want to help bring new technology into institutions that impact millions of people.

About the Role:

As our Security Engineer, Infrastructure, you'll secure the platform layer end-to-end including cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, identity, networking, and the systems that AI runs on. This is a hands-on builder role. You'll write code, ship infrastructure, and work shoulder-to-shoulder with our infra team as a true engineering partner, not a reviewer. It's a high-ownership role for someone who wants to build secure-by-default infrastructure from first principles, and grow the function as the company scales. You'll also be thinking a step ahead about security in an AI-native environment, where agents write code and operate inside developer and production workflows, while staying grounded in the core work of cloud, Kubernetes, identity, and networking.

What You’ll Work On:

Build the security foundations of our AI platform: identity, isolation, secrets management, and access control across cloud and Kubernetes environments.
Harden infrastructure end-to-end from cloud networking and service meshes to CI/CD pipelines and the data and model pipelines powering Brain Co's AI capabilities work.
Implement Zero Trust principles and machine identity across workloads; short-lived credentials, least-privilege access, and encrypted service communication.
Protect customer data and the agent workloads running on our platform. Design secure execution environments and data access pathways for code and actions taken by agents on our systems.
Build security guardrails directly into infrastructure and deployment workflows using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform) so security scales with the platform.
Own threat modeling across infrastructure layers—identifying and remediating risks before they become incidents.
Own security for Brain Co's forward-deployed infrastructure — designing and hardening bespoke VPCs and customer-environment deployments where every engagement brings its own unique attack surface.
Partner with platform, infra, product, and ML teams to ship code and infrastructure together as a true partner so engineers move fast with secure-by-default systems.

You Might Be a Great Fit If You:

Have 5+ years of experience in security engineering, infrastructure, or SRE with hands-on experience building or securing production systems at scale.
Are fluent in cloud security fundamentals (IAM, networking, KMS, secrets, isolation) across AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Have designed and implemented secure systems end-to-end not just reviewed them after the fact.
Have hands-on experience with Kubernetes, container security, and Linux systems.
Think in terms of threat models, trust boundaries, and failure modes and can translate that into concrete controls.
Enjoy building paved roads and guardrails using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform preferred) so the whole team moves faster safely.
Have experience with authentication and authorization systems, secrets management, and cryptography basics.
Are a hands-on builder who is energized by writing code, shipping infrastructure, and partnering directly with infra and platform engineers rather than advising from the sidelines.
Thrive in ambiguous, high-agency environments and want ownership of the infrastructure security function as it grows.

Bonus Points For:

Experience with ML systems or multi-tenant platform isolation.
Familiarity with service mesh and zero-trust architectures.
Proficiency in Go, Python, or a similar language for automation and tooling.

Why Join Us:

Secure an AI platform operating at the frontier; deployed in governments, hospitals, and critical industries worldwide.
Work on infrastructure security where the attack surface is still being defined — protecting systems built to push AI capabilities forward.
Work alongside senior engineers from Tesla, DeepMind, Databricks, and other top engineering orgs.
Shape how infrastructure security is done from the ground up with real ownership and scope to grow.
Ship fast, learn constantly, and see your work protect production systems used by millions.
Earn competitive compensation and meaningful equity in a high-growth company.

Benefits