PayPal
Sr. Staff Product Security Engineer- AI
$178K–$265K
Chicago, Illinois, United States of America +1 · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 10, 2026
- Location
- Chicago, Illinois, United States of America
Austin, Texas, United States of America - Experience
- 8+ years relevant experience; requires a Bachelor’s degree OR any equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree OR any equivalent combination of education and experience.
About the job
Leads Product Security engineering for AI-assisted software development, AI-enabled products and agents, and AI-driven vulnerability discovery and remediation across PayPal.
What you'll do
- Define and implement scalable AI security strategy, controls, and assurance across products, platforms, and engineering workflows.
- Review AI applications, models, agents, data flows, and tool integrations; establish safeguards, monitoring, and incident-response requirements.
- Build AI-enabled vulnerability detection and remediation capabilities, partner across engineering teams, and mentor engineers.
What they ask for
- Hands-on experience securing AI systems.
- Deep knowledge of application security vulnerabilities, secure software development, and controls to identify, prevent, and remediate software risk.
- Strong software-engineering experience building and operating production security tooling, automation, platform services, or developer-facing capabilities.
- Track record partnering with developers to implement robust security controls.
Nice to have
- Hands-on familiarity with application security tools such as SAST, DAST, SCA, WAF, or Burp Suite.
- Experience with cloud environments, CI/CD systems, Kubernetes, Terraform, major cloud vendors, or authentication protocols such as OAuth 2.0 and SAML.
Pay
USD 178,500.00 - 265,100.00 annually (base salary), Chicago, Illinois; USD 178,500.00 - 265,100.00 annually (base salary), Austin, Texas
Tools
SAST, DAST, SCA, WAF, Burp Suite, Ruby, Java, Python
AI focus
Secures AI-assisted development and AI-enabled products and agentic systems, and applies AI to vulnerability discovery, validation, prioritization, and remediation.
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