Staff AI Security Engineer - Secure ML Platforms

Cyberjobs; Sunnyvale (CA); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 248,000; Full time

Job summary

LinkedIn in Sunnyvale is hiring a Staff Security Engineer to strengthen security across AI applications, infrastructure, and development workflows. The role involves researching threats, leading threat models, and building secure-by-default frameworks for scalable tooling.

You will collaborate with platform engineering, security, ML/AI teams, and product DevEx to deliver secure, reliable systems in a hybrid work model, with a competitive pay range and opportunities for performance-based rewards.

Qualifications

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Information Security, or related field.
• Hands-on AI/ML or LLM-security risk experience.
• 5+ years in security engineering and knowledge of application security, cryptography, or supply chain security.
• 5+ years in threat modeling, design reviews, penetration testing and vulnerability assessment.
• Experience with programming languages such as Java, GoLang or Python.
• Experience architecting or implementing tooling that detects and mitigates security vulnerabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead security controls across AI/ML infrastructure: model scanning, provenance, and pipeline security.
• Architect guardrails for agentic workflows: hardening SDKs, tool access and permissioning, input/output validation, execution boundaries, sandboxing.
• Build automation and red-team tooling to identify and mitigate AI vulnerabilities at scale.
• Lead threat modeling and adversarial red-teaming of AI systems; integrate risk models into AI platforms and tooling.
• Define AI security standards, reference architectures, and policies across development, data ingestion, training, and inference.
• Drive cross-functional architecture and engineering decisions to build scalable, secure developer platforms and AI systems.

Skills

AI Security

Security Engineering

Threat Modeling

Security Architecture

Technical Leadership

Education

BA/BS in CS or Cybersecurity

Job description

LinkedIn in Sunnyvale is hiring a Staff Security Engineer to strengthen security across AI applications, infrastructure, and development workflows. The role involves researching threats, leading threat models, and building secure-by-default frameworks for scalable tooling.

You will collaborate with platform engineering, security, ML/AI teams, and product DevEx to deliver secure, reliable systems in a hybrid work model, with a competitive pay range and opportunities for performance-based rewards.