Staff AI Security Engineer — Red Team Leader (Remote)

Databricks Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 190,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

Databricks is seeking a Staff Security Software Engineer for AI Security to drive security across AI/ML capabilities. You will lead red team engagements, architect secure AI features, and mentor teams.

You combine offensive security excellence with practical ML knowledge to reduce risk. You will partner with AI/ML engineers, set standards, and contribute to risk frameworks, tooling, and internal knowledge assets.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of combined experience in offensive security, AI/ML security, or product security.
• Proven leadership in securing complex AI-enabled systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead AI red team engagements against production AI systems and document findings.
• Design security architecture reviews for multi-model AI features and provide practical controls.
• Develop automated security tooling and guardrails to scale AI security reviews.
• Mentor engineers in adversarial ML techniques and secure AI design.

Skills

Python

Offensive security

AI/ML security

Threat modeling

Security tooling

Leadership

Cloud security

Go/Java/Scala/Rust

Tools

MLflow

Delta Lake

Databricks platform internals

Job description

Databricks is seeking a Staff Security Software Engineer for AI Security to drive security across AI/ML capabilities. You will lead red team engagements, architect secure AI features, and mentor teams.

You combine offensive security excellence with practical ML knowledge to reduce risk. You will partner with AI/ML engineers, set standards, and contribute to risk frameworks, tooling, and internal knowledge assets.