Member of Technical Staff, Security Engineer
San Francisco, CA$225k - $550k + equityFull-timePosted 10mo ago
About the role
Security-focused role designing and maintaining security tooling, protecting models, systems, and engineering teams from traditional and frontier AI cyber threats. Collaboration with research, infrastructure, and alignment teams to ensure safe, productive secure infrastructure and incident response.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain security tooling and automation used by Magic’s engineering teams
- Secure developer infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and production services and make the platform tools easy to use
- Support our sandboxes team with building secure sandboxing and isolation for untrusted code, agent and model execution
- Build guardrails against emerging AI attack vectors, including prompt injection, tool abuse, exploit chaining, and autonomous model behavior
- Protect model weights, research artifacts, datasets, and production infrastructure from unauthorized access, lateral movement, and exfiltration
- Respond to security incidents and live threats
Qualifications
- Software engineering skills with experience building production systems in Rust, Go, Python, C++, Kotlin, TypeScript, or similar languages
- A very good understanding of modern MITRE att&ck techniques
- Actively engaged in the role of LLMs in securing and attacking software systems
- On-call readiness 24/7, assisted by our team
- Experience securing distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or large-scale production environments
- Ability to develop high-complexity cloud Linux-based exploits
- Deep understanding of UNIX or other operating systems, networking, authentication, authorization, and modern security architecture
- Experience building automation and tooling to secure fast paced organizations
- Track record of exceptional personal integrity, accountability and trustworthiness in high autonomy environments
Skills
Required:Software engineeringMITRE ATT&CKLLM securityOn-call readiness
Benefits
- Annual salary ranges between $225K - $550K based on experience
- Equity is a significant part of total compensation, in addition to salary
- 401(k) plan with 6% salary matching
- Generous health, dental and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- Unlimited paid time off
- Visa sponsorship and relocation stipend to bring you to SF, if possible
- A small, fast-paced, highly focused team
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
About Magic
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