xAI
Application Security Engineer, X Money
$100K–$258K
Palo Alto, CA +7 · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Location
- Palo Alto, CA
Austin, TX
New York, NY
Washington, DC
Austin, TX
New York, NY
Palo Alto, CA
Washington, DC - Experience
- 3+ years in application security, with a focus on code security practices.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, or scientific discipline.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be a U.S. citizen or national, U.S. lawful permanent resident, refugee, or asylee, or be eligible to obtain required authorizations from the U.S. Department of State.
About the job
Protects X Money payments and financial products by securing code, CI/CD pipelines, software supply chains, and systems handling customer funds.
What you'll do
- Review code, model threats, assess risks, and guide vulnerability remediation for financial products.
- Integrate security into development and CI/CD, manage the bug bounty program, and support application security incident response.
- Secure software supply chains and build agentic and LLM-based solutions to detect, investigate, or prevent security problems.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, cybersecurity, or scientific discipline.
- 3+ years of experience in application security, with a focus on code security practices.
- Experience in payments, money transmission, digital wallets, or other financial platforms.
Nice to have
- Proficiency in Python or Rust; experience securing CI/CD pipelines and implementing DevSecOps practices.
- Experience with security testing and code analysis tools, financial transaction systems, agentic or LLM-based security solutions, AWS, bug bounty programs, or software supply chain security.
Pay
$100,000 - $258,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, Rust, OWASP Top 10, Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, AWS, GitOps, SBOMs
AI focus
Design and implement agentic and LLM-based solutions to help detect, investigate, or prevent security problems.
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