Founding AI Agent Security Lead

Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity included

Health, dental, vision insurance

Visa sponsorship & relocation stipend

Job summary

Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company is seeking a founding security lead to own security posture and credibility. You will shape a standardized approach to AI agent security, working with CISOs at major enterprises and leading security governance across our product AIUC-1.

You will engage with clients, partners, and industry groups to define security expectations, policies, and incident response. This role combines strategic direction with hands-on leadership in a rapidly evolving AI

Qualifications

• Extensive security leadership in SaaS/AI with cross-functional ownership.
• Experience evaluating AI vendor security in large enterprises.
• Fluency across core technical stack and security disciplines.
• Excellent ability to communicate complex security topics to executives and engineers.
• Passion for AI-specific security risks and industry-wide standard setting.

Responsibilities

• Shape and evolve AIUC-1's security requirements as the threat landscape changes (prompt injection, adversarial attacks, jailbreaks, MCP and A2A risks).
• Be AIUC's external security voice through client conversations, consortium sessions, and thought leadership.
• Build and manage core security infrastructure; develop and enforce policies and incident response across the org.
• Serve as the practitioner's lens on how enterprises assess AI vendor security today.
• Handle enterprise client security and collaborate with the commercial team.

Skills

Security leadership

AI security

Enterprise security

Technical fluency

Communication skills

Job description

About AIUC

AIUC builds standards and insurance for frontier AI. Our mission is to Underwrite superintelligence. We exist because risk, not capability, is becoming the binding constraint on AI being useful. History offers lessons for how to build confidence in new technology; electricity burned down houses until insurers funded Underwriters Laboratories (UL) to certify products against their standards. Today, the UL mark is a trustmark on every light bulb in America. We’re building that for AI.

AIUC-1, our standard for agent security, serves frontier builders like Cursor, Lovable, ElevenLabs, and Harvey. We've raised $55m from Ribbit, First Harmonic and Nat Friedman to audit frontier AI. Our team comes from METR, Anthropic, McKinsey, and OpenAI. Come join us.

The Role

AIUC certifies AI agents based on security, safety, and reliability. As our founding security lead, you will own security at a business that is built upon trust. Our stakeholders are CISOs at Fortune 500 enterprises and the world's fastest-growing AI companies. They trust us to tell them whether their systems can be trusted and that requires internal credibility, controls, and posture.

AIUC-1 as a standard is paving the way for agentic security, your expertise will directly influence what this means across the industry. Our security function will be what other companies will turn to as the playbook.

This is once in a life-time opportunity, and in practice you will:

• Shape and evolve AIUC-1's security requirements as the agentic threat landscape changes, from prompt injection, adversarial attacks, jailbreaks, MCP and A2A risks

• Be AIUC's external security voice on what AI agent security means in practice, through client conversations, consortium sessions, and thought leadership

• Build and manage our core security infrastructure and build a world-class security posture, develop and enforce security policies and incident response across the organization

• Be the practitioner's lens to how enterprises assess AI vendor security today

• Handle enterprise client security and collaborate with our commercial team

What we're looking for

We are looking for someone who has spent years in security and is now ready to use that expertise to shape a standard. You are as comfortable in a room with a CISO as you are in the technical details, and you would rather write the playbook than implement someone else's.

You'll need to have:

• Deep experience in security, at a SaaS / AI / PS known for its rigour, with ownership spanning both strategic, technical and operational work

• Deep familiarity with how enterprises evaluate AI vendor security

• Technical fluency across the core stack

• Expertise and strong communication skills within complex security topics

• Passion about AI-specific security risks and a strong will to shape and define the new standard in its industry

Our Values

We are in the business of building trust. We take our values seriously and treat them as commitments to each other, held to the same bar as the ones we make to customers.

• Strong back: high standards, keep our promises, work hard.

• Fast feet: experiment, cut scope, take delight in pace.

• Eyes up: wrestle with the mission, and let where AI is heading shape our strategy, our teams and our day-to-day work.

• Open heart: say the scary thing, create connection, make room for emotions.

Underwriting superintelligence is our life's work. If you want it to be yours, apply now.

Compensation & Perks

• Competitive annual salary

• Equity (significant part of total compensation)

• Health, dental and vision insurance for you and your dependents

• Visa sponsorship and relocation stipend to bring you to SF, if needed

• Daily lunch, dinner & snacks