Staff Engineer, AI-Powered Security Automation

a16z; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 243,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental

Vision

Disability insurance

Life insurance

401K plan

Vacation

Sick leave

Job summary

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) in San Francisco is hiring a Staff Engineer, Security Automation to anchor automation across the security org. Your mandate is to connect tools, centralize data, and build dashboards and AI-native automations that let a small team operate at the scale of a larger one.

This is an AI-native role. You'll build with and on AI: LLM-augmented workflows, agentic automations, and AI-assisted analysis as a first-class building block—helping the security team gain leverage from

Qualifications

• 5+ years of security engineering with automation and tool-building.
• Production-quality security tooling experience with Python or similar.
• Hands-on experience building with LLMs/AI APIs and integrating AI into workflows.
• Broad security fundamentals across cloud security, detection, identity, and vulnerability management.
• Understanding AI security risks like prompt injection and data exfiltration.
• Ability to translate security concepts for non-technical audiences.
• Low ego, high empathy, and strong cross-team collaboration.

Skills

Security engineering

Python tooling

AI/LLM integration

Cloud security basics

AI security risks

Non-technical communication

Collaboration

Tools

Python

LLMs

AI APIs

Job description

Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) in San Francisco is hiring a Staff Engineer, Security Automation to anchor automation across the security org. Your mandate is to connect tools, centralize data, and build dashboards and AI-native automations that let a small team operate at the scale of a larger one.

This is an AI-native role. You'll build with and on AI: LLM-augmented workflows, agentic automations, and AI-assisted analysis as a first-class building block—helping the security team gain leverage from