Thinking Machines Lab
Security Engineer, Detection & Response
$300K–$350K
San Francisco · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 27, 2026
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or similar.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available; success is not guaranteed for every candidate or role.
About the job
Build and operate threat detection, incident response, security data pipelines, and threat intelligence for the company’s platforms, models, and data.
What you'll do
- Lead incident response from triage through recovery and postmortems; participate in the security incident on-call rotation.
- Build security telemetry pipelines, tooling, and high-fidelity detections across cloud, Kubernetes, identity, endpoint, SaaS, and application sources.
- Run threat intelligence and proactive hunting, translating findings into detections, response automation, and hardening recommendations.
What they ask for
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or similar.
- Proficiency in Python or Rust.
- Track record responding to production security incidents, including leading investigations and coordinating across teams.
- Hands-on experience operating security data pipelines at scale and experience producing and using threat intelligence.
Nice to have
- Detection and response experience at an AI lab, cloud provider, or other high-threat environment.
- Experience detecting AI-specific abuse or familiarity with ML infrastructure telemetry.
Pay
$300,000-$350,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, Rust, Splunk, Elastic, Panther, BigQuery, Snowflake, ClickHouse
AI focus
Detect AI-specific threats in production and track threats such as model weight theft; preferred experience includes detecting prompt injection, model extraction, or anomalous API usage.
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