Drimva

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
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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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First seen Oct 10, 2026 · Last verified Nov 5, 2026 (UTC)