Staff AI Security Engineer

Coreweave; Livingston (NJ); On-site; USD 188,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance – 100% paid

Flexible PTO

Catered lunch each day

Job summary

Coreweave is looking for a Staff AI Security Engineer who will define and operationalize security across our AI ecosystem. This role combines AI/ML, cloud infrastructure, and security engineering to ensure a secure environment for AI development.

Ideal candidates have over 10 years in security engineering, with strong coding skills and a thorough understanding of AI threats. In addition to a competitive salary, we offer comprehensive benefits including medical insurance, 401(k) matching, and flexible PTO.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in security engineering (cloud, application, or infrastructure).
• Strong coding skills in Go, Python, or similar.
• Understanding of AI-specific threats: prompt injection, data leakage.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement security controls across AI/ML infrastructure.
• Develop AI security policies, standards, and threat models.
• Conduct threat modeling and adversarial testing of AI systems.

Skills

Security engineering

Experience with AI/ML systems

Coding skills in Go, Python

Familiarity with Kubernetes

Education

10+ years of experience in security engineering

Tools

Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Job description

About the Role:

CoreWeave is seeking a Staff AI Security Engineer to define and operationalize security across our AI ecosystem. This role sits at the intersection of AI/ML, cloud infrastructure, and security engineering. You'll build secure‑by‑default foundations for AI development, agentic workflows, and enterprise AI adoption, balancing velocity with strong security guarantees. You will also partner closely with enterprise security and IT teams to manage AI‑adjacent risks across the corporate environment, including shadow AI, data exfiltration through AI tooling, and SaaS security posture for AI‑enabled platforms.

What You'll Do:

• Design and implement security controls across AI/ML infrastructure, including model artifact storage, data lineage and integrity, model signing and provenance, and ML pipeline security (MLOps/MLSecOps)
• Develop AI security policies, standards, and threat models covering model development, training pipelines, data ingestion, inference environments, and agentic systems
• Build security guardrails for agentic workflows: tool access and permissioning, input/output validation, execution boundaries, sandboxing, and auditability of agent actions
• Lead secure adoption of AI tools across engineering, security, operations, and enterprise functions. Evaluate AI vendors, copilots, and integrations. Define policies for data sharing, model usage boundaries, and sensitive data handling in prompts and outputs
• Partner with enterprise security and IT on AI‑related risks across the corporate environment, including endpoint posture, corporate identity, and SaaS security for AI‑enabled platforms
• Conduct threat modeling and adversarial testing of AI systems, covering prompt injection, data poisoning, model extraction, and backdoored models. Build and maintain a CoreWeave‑specific AI threat taxonomy
• Drive cross‑team technical decisions and influence architecture across platform engineering, security engineering, ML/AI teams, and product/DevEx to embed security into AI platforms and developer tooling

Who You Are:

• 10+ years of experience in security engineering (cloud, application, or infrastructure)
• Experience with AI/ML systems: LLMs, training pipelines, inference systems, or MLOps
• Strong, demonstrable experience building and securing large‑scale distributed systems
• Strong coding skills in Go, Python, or similar
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, containerized environments, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
• Understanding of AI‑specific threats: prompt injection, data leakage, model misuse, supply chain risks in models and datasets
• Track record of driving cross‑team technical initiatives and influencing architecture decisions at the org level

Preferred:

• Experience building or securing LLM‑based systems, agent frameworks (LangChain, etc.), or AI‑powered internal tools
• Background in adversarial ML or red teaming AI systems
• Experience with secure model deployment pipelines or confidential computing / secure enclaves
• Familiarity with identity and access control systems
• Experience in high‑performance or GPU‑centric environments

Compensation

The base salary range for this role is $188,000 to $275,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job‑related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. We strive for market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, we offer a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).

What We Offer

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance – 100% paid for by CoreWeave
• Company‑paid life insurance
• Voluntary supplemental life insurance
• Short and long‑term disability insurance
• Flexible spending account
• Health savings account
• Tuition reimbursement
• Participation in employee stock purchase program (ESPP)
• Mental wellness benefits through Spring Health
• Family‑forming support provided by Carrot
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible, full‑service childcare support with Kinside
• 401(k) with generous employer match
• Flexible PTO
• Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
• A casual work environment
• A work culture focused on innovative disruption

Equal Opportunity & Accommodations

CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.

As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact [e-mail].

Export Control Compliance

This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.