Platform Security [US]

brainco; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Brain Co. seeks a Platform Security Engineer to build guardrails that keep AI agents safe on real customer data. This is a builder role, writing production code to constrain access, with scoped credentials and audit trails.

You'll work with product and ML teams to design, ship secure guardrails, and ensure data protection across regulated environments in a fast-paced, production-first setting.

Qualifications

• 5 to 8 years as a software engineer with production systems.
• Strong programming in Python, Go, or TypeScript and API design experience.
• Experience with AI agents in production, tool use, and orchestration.
• Solid data protection fundamentals and least privilege concepts.
• Cloud experience across AWS, GCP or Azure and SDLC awareness.
• Clear written English and ability to document runbooks and guides.

Responsibilities

• Design and build guardrail services that constrain agent actions and data access.
• Develop production code for data protection and permissioning in agent workflows.
• Create reusable guardrail libraries and SDKs for engineers.
• Implement detection and containment for failure modes and prompt injection.
• Instrument tamper-evident audit logs and explainable access trails.
• Collaborate with product, platform and ML engineering to review capabilities.

Skills

Python

Go

TypeScript

APIs design

Security

Data protection

Cloud platforms

Tools

AWS

GCP

Azure

LangChain

Job description

Our Mission

Rebuild how the world works, to make institutions work better for the people they serve.

About Brain Co.

Brain Co. builds AI-native operating systems for large, regulated institutions. Each system is built for a specific industry, powered by agents that push real workflows forward. Underneath it all is Atlas, our proprietary platform that keeps customers in control, secure by design, and never locked into one model.

Why Now

Brain Co. is entering its next phase of production deployments on a national scale with an elite team built from Palantir, Google, Meta, and Nvidia, and a growing footprint across government, insurance, health, and financial services.

Joining now means shaping both the company and a new category of applied AI. Every project here ships to production and is expected to create measurable customer value and impact.

You'll work alongside exceptional peers on some of the hardest problems in applied AI. It's the kind of work you'll still be proud of in ten years from now.

About the Role:

We're looking for a Platform Security Engineer to build the guardrails that keep our AI agents safe to run on real customer data. This isn't a policy or compliance role—it's a builder role. You'll design and ship the code that constrains what an agent can access, do, and expose: scoped credentials, data access boundaries, action validation, and audit trails, so product teams can put agents in front of sensitive government, healthcare, and enterprise data with confidence.

You'll work as a software engineer embedded with our product and agent-platform teams—writing production code, not just policy—to make the secure path the only path an agent can take.

What You’ll Build & Ship

• Design and build the guardrail services that mediate actions an AI agent takes, scoped permissions, tool-call validation, and hard limits on what an agent can read, write, or send

• Write production code for data access controls that keep customer PII and sensitive records inside approved boundaries, even when an agent is orchestrating the request

• Build reusable guardrail libraries and SDKs so product engineers can drop data protection and permissioning into new agent workflows without reinventing it each time

• Design detection and containment for agent-specific failure modes, prompt injection, tool misuse, data exfiltration attempts, and build automated tests and red-team harnesses to catch them before production

• Instrument agents with tamper-evident audit logs and decision trails so every customer-data access is explainable after the fact

• Partner with product, platform and ML engineering to review new agent capabilities before launch and flag where guardrails are missing

• Own the developer experience for guardrails: clear APIs, documentation, and low-friction integration so engineers adopt controls instead of routing around them

• Help define and measure guardrail effectiveness, coverage across security workflows, false positive/negative rates, mean time to detect and contain

What We’re Looking For

Required

• 5 to 8 years as a software engineer building and shipping production systems, with meaningful time spent on security, data protection, or trust & safety problems

• Strong general-purpose programming skills (Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar), comfortable designing services and APIs other engineers depend on, not just writing scripts or config

• Experience with or strong working knowledge of how AI agents operate in production, tool use, function calling, orchestration frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, or similar)

• Solid grasp of data protection fundamentals: PII handling, access control, encryption, and least privilege, and how they hold up once an agent is in the loop

• Comfortable designing systems used by other engineers—clear interfaces, sensible defaults, predictable failure modes

• Working cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure) sufficient to build and deploy services securely

• Comfortable across the SDLC, understands how developers work and designs guardrails that don’t create friction

• Strong written English; able to write documentation and runbooks engineers actually read

Nice to Have

• Direct experience building guardrails or safety layers for LLM/agent systems—prompt injection defenses, content filtering, output validation

• Background in regulated industries (healthcare, government, financial services) handling sensitive customer data

• Familiarity with policy-as-code, secrets management, or software supply-chain security tooling

• Prior startup experience; comfort with ambiguity and working autonomously

Why This Role

You'll have real ownership and clear scope: a defined guardrail surface across our platform, and the mandate to build. Your code will ship into production and directly shape how safely our agents operate on customer data as the platform grows. If you’re a software engineer who wants to spend more time building than advising, this is that role.