Staff AI Security Engineer — Production Systems (Remote)

Cerebras; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 190,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Aegis is seeking a Staff or Senior Staff engineer to build the next generation of security products. You will own hard problems, ship, set technical direction, and elevate the engineers around you. In-person in NY/SF preferred, open to remote with strong leadership impact.

The role offers a high-growth trajectory from technical ownership to broader leadership, with opportunities to influence product scope and organizational strategy as the company scales.

Qualifications

• Have operated at Staff-level technical scope, or equivalent experience leading technically complex systems and teams.
• Have built production systems where false positives, correctness, reliability, or risk mattered.
• Can move between architecture and implementation without treating either as someone else’s job.
• Communicate technical decisions clearly in written form.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical roadmap and delivery for security products.
• Lead architecture, implementation, and performance of detection systems.
• Collaborate across detection, infrastructure, product surfaces, and AI inference teams to ship features.
• Mentor engineers and grow technical capability across the team.
• Balance speed, latency, and reliability in production environments to protect customers.

Skills

Staff-level leadership

Production systems

Architectural decisions

Communication

Job description

Aegis is seeking a Staff or Senior Staff engineer to build the next generation of security products. You will own hard problems, ship, set technical direction, and elevate the engineers around you. In-person in NY/SF preferred, open to remote with strong leadership impact.

The role offers a high-growth trajectory from technical ownership to broader leadership, with opportunities to influence product scope and organizational strategy as the company scales.