Sr Offensive AI Security Engineer II
Samsara· IT Security
Remote$157.7k - $238.5kfull-timePosted 2w ago
About the role
Senior security engineer focused on AI-enabled security across software, firmware, and hardware, combining offensive AI capabilities with defensive guardrails to secure Samsara's AI-forward security operations and drive strategy.
Responsibilities
- Deliver accurate, consistent security assessments of Samsara's software, code, and firmware, evaluating resilience against AI-driven/adversarial attacks, and implementing fixes.
- Create and translate general AI security findings into Samsara-specific fixes for the application security layer—adapting techniques for hardware and embedded firmware.
- Find AI-specific and traditional vulnerabilities (e.g., injection, IDOR) using AI-driven offensive validation.
- Build and pressure-test novel AI-enabled security tooling and workflows, then drive adoption across the broader security org.
- Benchmark frontier models for security tasks and establish release criteria and guardrails for adopting them.
- Support AppSec vulnerability triage through an office-hours rotation, and help run the bug bounty program, with potential hardware expansion.
- Partner cross-functionally with engineering, hardware, and leadership; present findings to security and executive leadership as Samsara's AI security expert.
- Help define and drive Samsara's medium- and long-term strategy for adopting AI safely within security operations.
- Use frontier AI/LLM tools hands-on for offensive validation and defensive tooling; integrate, secure, or red-team AI-enabled systems.
- Champion Samsara’s cultural principles within a global scale.
Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in application security, vulnerability management, threat modeling, offensive security, or related discipline with demonstrated impact across a large organization.
- Hands-on experience building AI or agentic workflows for security use cases.
- Experience conducting technical security assessments across software and hardware/firmware environments.
- Experience creating secure code solutions with GoLang.
- Experience developing AI and agentic solutions using Github and AWS cloud.
Skills
Required:AI security testing and offensive validationGoLangAWSAI/LLM toolingVulnerability managementHardware/firmware securityCommunication to executives
Benefits
- Total Rewards with base salary and equity; RSU grant with no vesting cliff; performance-based bonus/variable pay.
- Flexible, employee-led remote model; professional development stipend; comprehensive health and parental leave plans.
Last updated Oct 10, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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