Lightning AI
Senior Application Security Engineer, AI and Machine Learning
$180K–$220K
San Francisco, California, United States +2 · Senior · Full-time · Posted Apr 1, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, California, United States
Seattle, Washington, United States
San Francisco, California, United States - Visa sponsorship
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About the job
Secures Lightning AI’s AI, machine-learning, inference, and developer platforms through security reviews, architecture design, and security tooling.
What you'll do
- Threat-model AI platforms and ML pipelines; review inference architectures and secure training, fine-tuning, and deployment workflows.
- Review application architectures and high-risk code; help engineers implement secure APIs, distributed systems, and security guardrails.
- Build security automation, monitoring, and controls for inference services, model supply chains, and multi-tenant workloads.
What they ask for
- Strong background in application security engineering, including threat modeling and architecture reviews.
- Experience securing APIs and distributed systems in cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
- Experience with containers and Kubernetes, plus strong scripting or programming skills such as Python or Go.
- Experience securing ML pipelines, inference systems, or data platforms; familiarity with AI risks and model-serving architecture reviews.
Nice to have
- Red team or offensive security experience, GPU infrastructure or high-performance computing, or multi-tenant infrastructure security.
- Experience with Hugging Face, PyTorch, TensorFlow, LLM systems, RAG pipelines, agent frameworks, or security automation pipelines.
Pay
$180,000 — $220,000 USD annual base salary
Tools
AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, Python, Go, Hugging Face, PyTorch
AI focus
Secures AI/ML platforms, inference systems, model pipelines, and AI supply chains; addresses risks including prompt injection, model extraction, adversarial inputs, and data leakage.
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