River AI
Security Lead, Product and Infrastructure (InfoSec)
$200K–$420K
Palo Alto, CA +1 · Full-time · Posted Oct 31, 2026
- Location
- Palo Alto, CA
Palo Alto, California, United States - Experience
- 10+ years in security.
- Visa sponsorship
- We sponsor visas and are committed to supporting the process for the right candidate.
About the job
Build and lead River AI’s security function, protecting its AI research infrastructure, products, corporate systems, and customer platform while supporting rapid development.
What you'll do
- Design and operate security capabilities across infrastructure, products, detection and response, compliance, and workplace security; protect model weights, training pipelines, research clusters, and source code.
- Own corporate IT, identity and access management, privacy engineering, security tooling, and security research; integrate security into development workflows.
- Lead the compliance roadmap and serve as the security representative to customers, regulators, board members, and government partners; recruit and mentor the security team.
What they ask for
- 10+ years in security, including significant experience at a technology company; AI experience preferred.
- Experience as a first or early security executive in a high-velocity, high-stakes environment.
- Deep expertise in at least two listed areas, including detection engineering, incident response, digital forensics, infrastructure security, product/application security, operational security, or secure software development.
- Experience securing cloud-native distributed systems, container/VM environments, and high-performance compute clusters; demonstrated ability to build and ship security tooling or research projects.
Nice to have
- Experience with model-weight protection, secure multi-party compute, confidential computing, or supply-chain security at an AI lab or research organization.
- Security research, conference talks, or open-source contributions; startup or venture-backed company experience.
Pay
$200,000 - $420,000 USD per year (base pay)
Tools
SOC 2, ISO 27001, FedRAMP
AI focus
Explore how AI can improve vulnerability discovery, code analysis, and defensive operations; address security challenges in AI model and agent development.
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