Lila Sciences
Principal Engineer, AI Security
$252K–$374K
Cambridge, MA USA +1 · Principal · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Location
- Cambridge, MA USA
One Charles Park, Cambridge, MA
About the job
Own hands-on security engineering for AI and ML systems, delivering controls and reducing risk across the AI lifecycle.
What you'll do
- Implement security controls for AI training and inference pipelines, model registries, MCP servers, and agent runtimes.
- Maintain compliance and drive vulnerability remediation across AI infrastructure, models, and dependencies.
- Threat-model AI systems and partner with engineering and research teams to embed security at design time.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience securing production infrastructure in security engineering, cloud security, or DevSecOps.
- Working knowledge of AI/ML systems, the ML lifecycle, and AI-specific risks.
- Experience with software supply chain security and dependency and vulnerability management.
- Experience implementing cloud data security controls, including classification, data flow mapping, access control, and encryption.
Nice to have
- Hands-on AWS security experience.
- Experience with SBOM tooling at scale; familiarity with NIST AI RMF or MAESTRO-style threat modeling.
Pay
$252,000 — $374,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
AWS, NIST AI RMF, MAESTRO
AI focus
Secure AI/ML systems across data, models, pipelines, and agentic systems; address threats such as prompt injection, model and data poisoning, insecure agent tooling, and inference-time threats.
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