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Lead Security Engineer

Ai2· Engineering
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Hybrid (Seattle, WA)$176.4k - $264.6kfull-timePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Security leadership role responsible for establishing and managing Ai2's security program, prioritizing security investments, conducting assessments, and collaborating across research and engineering to reduce security risks while building scalable security tooling and processes.

Responsibilities

  • Establish and maintain documentation for Ai2's organizational approach to security, including policies, standards, and system security plans (SSPs).
  • Maintain and prioritize a backlog of security investments.
  • Conduct in-depth security assessments to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities across cloud infrastructure, ML pipelines, and application code.
  • Investigate and respond to security incidents, lead root-cause analysis, and drive remediation to closure.
  • Build systems and tooling that improve security compliance, observability, and governance (e.g., audit logging, access control, vulnerability management, configuration baselines).
  • Partner across research and engineering teams to address security concerns.
  • Define and evolve security standards, secure-development practices, and documentation to raise the organization's overall security maturity.
  • Evaluate and secure SaaS platforms and tools (vendor risk assessments, access reviews, data handling review, multi-tenant data isolation).
  • Serve as the organization's trusted voice on security: translate security risk into practical guidance for leaders and other teams.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree and 8–10 years of overall software/infrastructure engineering experience.
  • 5+ years focused on security engineering, application security, or security architecture, ideally including time owning a security program.
  • Hands-on experience conducting security and compliance audits, and implementing or assessing controls (e.g., NIST 800-171).
  • Proven ability to establish and build a security program largely from the ground up.
  • Strong ability to advise non-security technical leaders and translate risk into actionable recommendations.

Skills

Required:Security program managementSecurity assessmentsIncident response and root-cause analysisSecurity auditing and compliance (e.g., NIST 800-171)Communication to non-security leaders

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, vision, and employee assistance program.
  • Health savings account plan, healthcare reimbursement arrangement plan, and health care and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
  • 401(k) plan participation.
  • $125/month for commuting or internet expenses and $200/month for fitness and wellbeing expenses.
  • Up to ten sick days, up to seven personal days, up to 20 vacation days, and twelve paid holidays per year.
  • Annual bonuses and eligibility for long-term incentive plan.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Ai2, founded by Paul Allen and led by Ali Farhadi, conducts high-impact research and engineering to tackle key problems in artificial intelligence.

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