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Staff Software Engineer, AI Security

Robinhood· Security Division
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Hybrid (Menlo Park, CA & Bellevue, WA)$230k - $270kfull-timePosted 2w ago

About the role

Role focused on building a scalable and secure AI platform enabling security teams to develop and operate AI-powered agents and security solutions at Robinhood. Hands-on engineering to design platform primitives, security controls, and developer-focused tooling at scale, with emphasis on identity, authentication, authorization, encryption, and platform safety.

Responsibilities

  • Design and build a scalable AI platform that enables security teams to develop, deploy, and operate AI-powered agents and security capabilities
  • Build foundational platform services, APIs, libraries, and SDKs that make it easier for teams to integrate AI into security workflows
  • Design secure systems with strong identity, authentication, authorization, encryption, and data protection controls
  • Build and operate reliable, large-scale distributed systems that support AI-powered security use cases
  • Develop platform capabilities and guardrails that enable teams to safely build and operate AI agents
  • Partner with security, infrastructure, and engineering teams to understand their needs and translate them into reusable platform capabilities
  • Identify opportunities to improve platform performance, developer experience, reliability, and security through automation
  • Help shape the technical direction and architecture of Robinhood’s AI Security platform as the team and platform continue to grow

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of software development experience
  • 6+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, with experience designing systems around security concepts such as authentication, authorization, identity, or encryption
  • Experience building AI platforms, AI infrastructure, or production systems that support AI-powered applications or agents
  • Proficiency in Go or Python, with strong problem-solving and production debugging skills
  • Experience with cloud-native platforms and distributed systems technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, gRPC, or Kafka
  • Strong understanding of security fundamentals and experience incorporating security into the design of production systems
  • Experience designing and building reusable platform capabilities, APIs, libraries, or developer tooling
  • Proven experience delivering large engineering projects with meaningful, long-term impact
  • Strong technical judgment and the ability to make thoughtful trade-offs across security, reliability, scalability, and developer experience
  • Ability to solve complex engineering problems and collaborate effectively across security and engineering teams

Skills

Required:GoPythonDistributed systemsAI platforms / AI infrastructure

Benefits

  • Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career
  • Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching
  • Top Tier benefits to fuel your work, including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents
  • Access to the Robinhood Employee Fund that gives eligible US employees the opportunity to invest in a private employee fund that provides exposure to Robinhood Ventures funds
  • Access to the best AI tools on the market and continuous AI skill-building for every employee, technical or not
  • Lifestyle wallet - a highly flexible benefits spending account for wellness, learning, and more
  • Employer-paid life & disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits
  • Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more
  • Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces
Last updated Oct 7, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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