GenAI Security Engineer: Secure Apps & AI Tools

Liftoff; Colorado Springs (CO); Remote; USD 184,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Wellness stipends

Equity

Job summary

Liftoff is seeking a seasoned security engineer to own application security for GenAI, Creative GenAI, and emerging businesses. You will drive secure design, perform threat modeling, and build automation while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

You will triage vulnerabilities, guide remediation with engineering, and contribute to cloud/security initiatives across Liftoff's stack. Remote-first with US/Canada hubs and travel as needed.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience in security engineering or software engineering.
• Strong background in secure software design, application and API security, and threat modeling.
• Experience writing production-quality security tooling and automation.

Responsibilities

• Perform design reviews, threat modeling, and security assessments for GenAI and related platforms.
• Triage security issues, prioritize vulnerabilities, and coordinate remediation with engineering teams.
• Develop and maintain security automation tools and monitoring.
• Assess vendors and AI tools for security controls and use cases.
• Contribute across application, cloud, and infrastructure security.
• Participate in on-call and incident-response rotations.

Skills

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Python

Clojure

JavaScript

Threat modeling

Security engineering

Code reviews

Incident response

Tools

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Job description

Liftoff is seeking a seasoned security engineer to own application security for GenAI, Creative GenAI, and emerging businesses. You will drive secure design, perform threat modeling, and build automation while collaborating with cross-functional teams.

You will triage vulnerabilities, guide remediation with engineering, and contribute to cloud/security initiatives across Liftoff's stack. Remote-first with US/Canada hubs and travel as needed.