Lead Security Engineer
Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) · Seattle, WA ·
- Work mode
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Lead
- Category
- Security
- Experience
- 5+ years
You will lead the security program by assessing systems, prioritizing risks, investigating incidents, and driving remediation. You will build security tooling and controls, define secure-development standards, evaluate SaaS risks, and advise technical leaders on practical security decisions.
Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain security policies, standards, and system security plans
- Maintain and prioritize security investments
- Conduct security assessments across cloud infrastructure, ML pipelines, and application code
- Investigate security incidents, perform root-cause analysis, and drive remediation
- Build tooling for security compliance, observability, and governance
- Define security standards and secure-development practices
- Evaluate SaaS platforms for vendor risk, access, data handling, and isolation
- Advise leaders on actionable security risk management
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- 8–10 years of software or infrastructure engineering experience
- 5+ years of security engineering, application security, or security architecture experience
- Experience conducting security and compliance audits and implementing or assessing controls
- Experience with NIST 800-171
- Ability to address ambiguous, high-stakes security problems
- Ability to translate technical risks into actionable recommendations
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, and employee assistance coverage for team members and families
- Health savings account, healthcare reimbursement arrangement, and flexible spending accounts
- 401k plan
- $125 monthly commuting or internet expense support
- $200 monthly fitness and wellbeing expense support
- Up to 10 sick days, 7 personal days, 20 vacation days, and 12 paid holidays per year
- Annual bonuses
- Long-term incentive plan