Embedding VC
AI Blockchain Security Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Education
- A degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, blockchain, or security.
About the job
Build AI-driven systems and agents for smart contract security research, vulnerability detection, onchain threat investigation, and blockchain security monitoring.
What you'll do
- Develop AI-assisted smart contract analysis and vulnerability detection systems.
- Build agents and internal tools for analyzing protocol logic, transactions, exploits, and threats across blockchain ecosystems.
- Improve AI reasoning over codebases and protocol activity, collaborating with security, protocol, and infrastructure teams on monitoring and incident response.
What they ask for
- Degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, blockchain, or security.
- Experience in blockchain security, smart contract auditing, or vulnerability research.
- Familiarity with blockchain ecosystems, EVM internals, smart contract execution, transaction lifecycle analysis, and common Web3 attack vectors.
- Experience building AI workflows, retrieval systems, tool-calling agents, or LLM-powered security tools.
Nice to have
- Familiarity with blockchain-related cryptography, such as hashing, digital signatures, Merkle trees, MPC, or consensus mechanisms.
Tools
EVM
AI focus
Build AI agents and workflows for smart contract analysis, vulnerability discovery, exploit analysis, and onchain threat detection.
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