Staff AI Detection & Response Engineer

Writer; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous PTO and company holidays

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Paid parental leave (16 weeks)

Fertility and family planning support

Flexible spending account and HSA

Job summary

WRITER is seeking a staff detection and response engineer to protect its AI infrastructure. You will build detection systems for AI training data, models, and deployments, and create automated responses that scale with growth.

Work spans threat detection, incident response coordination, and proactive hunting across GPU clusters. The role reports to the head of security operations, with offices in San Francisco or Seattle, and offers multiple levels based on experience.

Qualifications

• 3–5+ years in security operations, detection engineering, or incident response in production environments
• Strong Python, KQL, SPL and scripting for building detections and automating responses
• Experience with SIEM platforms and conducting forensics in distributed environments
• Proactive threat hunting to identify security gaps before incidents occur
• Align with WRITER's values and own AI platform security end-to-end

Responsibilities

• Design and implement AI-specific threat detections across distributed AI training and inference workflows
• Create automated response playbooks and self-healing security systems
• Coordinate incident response across Cloud, AppSec, Enterprise, and AI Security teams
• Hunt for sophisticated threats across GPU clusters and training infrastructure
• Develop detection-as-code with version control and dashboards to track security metrics
• Collaborate across teams to translate threat research into production detections
• Maintain 24/7 on-call rotation for critical AI security incidents

Skills

Security operations

Python

KQL

SPL

Threat hunting

Incident response

Tools

SIEM platforms

Forensic techniques

Job description

WRITER is seeking a staff detection and response engineer to protect its AI infrastructure. You will build detection systems for AI training data, models, and deployments, and create automated responses that scale with growth.

Work spans threat detection, incident response coordination, and proactive hunting across GPU clusters. The role reports to the head of security operations, with offices in San Francisco or Seattle, and offers multiple levels based on experience.