AI Security Platform Engineer: Build Secure AI at Scale

VulnU; Menlo Park, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 166,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Equity ownership

401(k) matching

AI tools access

Job summary

Robinhood is hiring a Software Engineer for AI Security to design and build a scalable AI platform and secure infrastructure. You will work on foundational services, authentication, data protection, and large-scale distributed systems supporting AI-powered security use cases.

The role requires Go or Python proficiency, experience with AWS, Kubernetes, gRPC, Kafka, and a strong security background. In-person collaboration across Menlo Park and Bellevue is expected.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software development experience.
• 2+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems with security concepts such as authentication, authorization, identity, or encryption.
• Experience building AI platforms, AI infrastructure, or production systems that support AI-powered applications or agents.
• Proficiency in Go or Python, with strong problem-solving and production debugging skills.
• Experience with cloud-native platforms and distributed systems technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, gRPC, or Kafka.
• Strong understanding of security fundamentals and experience incorporating security into the design of production systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and build a scalable AI platform that enables security teams to develop, deploy, and operate AI-powered agents and security capabilities.
• Build foundational platform services, APIs, libraries, and SDKs that make it easier for teams to integrate AI into security workflows.
• Design secure systems with strong identity, authentication, authorization, encryption, and data protection controls.
• Build and operate reliable, large-scale distributed systems that support AI-powered security use cases.
• Develop platform capabilities and guardrails that enable teams to safely build and operate AI agents.
• Partner with security, infrastructure, and engineering teams to translate needs into reusable platform capabilities.

Skills

Go

Python

Distributed systems

Security concepts

Problem solving

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes

gRPC

Kafka

Job description

Robinhood is hiring a Software Engineer for AI Security to design and build a scalable AI platform and secure infrastructure. You will work on foundational services, authentication, data protection, and large-scale distributed systems supporting AI-powered security use cases.

The role requires Go or Python proficiency, experience with AWS, Kubernetes, gRPC, Kafka, and a strong security background. In-person collaboration across Menlo Park and Bellevue is expected.