Remote AI Security Backend Engineer

Stripe; South San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 190,000 - 286,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Company bonus or commissions

401(k) plan

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

Wellness stipends

Job summary

Stripe is seeking an engineer to join the AI security team as the first specialist on the ground, helping to design and deploy security primitives for AI infrastructure and defending against threats like prompt injections and jailbreaks.

You will partner with AI infrastructure teams, build security frameworks, and maintain Stripe’s high engineering standards while enabling fast, safe AI innovation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software development experience.
• Experience independently designing and developing medium to large projects.
• Experience working collaboratively across multiple engineering teams.
• Experience writing high quality code in a major programming language.
• Ability to drive clear next steps when working in an ambiguous environment.
• Ability to think creatively and reason clearly in a complex problem domain.

Responsibilities

• Build security frameworks integrated with our core AI infrastructure.
• Design and implement defenses against AI specific threats like prompt injection and jailbreaks.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams to ensure Stripe's AI infrastructure and products are built securely.
• Support other engineering teams in integrating security primitives.
• Uphold our high engineering standards and improve our codebase and processes.
• Design and build systems that help define the state of the art for AI security.

Skills

5+ years software development

Large project design

Cross-team collaboration

Clean code practices

Ambiguity tolerance

Creative problem solving

Job description

Stripe is seeking an engineer to join the AI security team as the first specialist on the ground, helping to design and deploy security primitives for AI infrastructure and defending against threats like prompt injections and jailbreaks.

You will partner with AI infrastructure teams, build security frameworks, and maintain Stripe’s high engineering standards while enabling fast, safe AI innovation.