Founding Security Engineer, AI/ML Infra & SOC2

Clera; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401k

Visa sponsorship

Relocation support

AI productivity tools access

Job summary

Clera, an early-stage AI/ML infrastructure company, is seeking a founding security hire to build the program from scratch. You will collaborate across product, cloud infrastructure, compliance, and incident response to safeguard a platform used by leading AI labs and enterprises.

This role demands hands-on expertise in detection and response, security architecture, and governance. You will own SOC 2 readiness, design controls, and translate data-license requirements into enforceable safeguards

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on security engineering across infrastructure, detection, response, and identity domains.
• Experience leading security incidents end-to-end from containment to root-cause analysis.
• Proven ability to implement or operate SOC 2 or equivalent security frameworks.
• Experience securing AI/ML infrastructure and data platforms.
• Experience with data protection controls: access, retention, deletion, isolation, auditability.
• Experience working with legal teams, auditors, and customers on security questionnaires.

Responsibilities

• Lead detection and incident response end-to-end from signal to postmortem and engineering improvements.
• Own the security roadmap spanning product, cloud/infrastructure security, and compliance.
• Secure APIs, platforms, and data systems through threat modeling and access controls.
• Build and operate monitoring, detection, and incident-response capabilities.
• Own SOC 2 compliance and customer trust through audits and policy management.
• Partner with legal, commercial, engineering, and operations to translate data-license requirements into enforceable controls.

Skills

Security engineering

Incident response

SOC 2 compliance

Threat modeling

Access controls

Compliance collaboration

Communication with stakeholders

Job description

Clera, an early-stage AI/ML infrastructure company, is seeking a founding security hire to build the program from scratch. You will collaborate across product, cloud infrastructure, compliance, and incident response to safeguard a platform used by leading AI labs and enterprises.

This role demands hands-on expertise in detection and response, security architecture, and governance. You will own SOC 2 readiness, design controls, and translate data-license requirements into enforceable safeguards