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Product Security Engineer

Product Security Engineers at AI companies sit within engineering organizations and own security across the software development lifecycle—threat modeling, secure code review, vulnerability management, and the security-relevant tooling that engineers depend on. In practice at AI companies, the role frequently extends past pure application security into the surrounding infrastructure and identity layers: securing CI/CD pipelines, designing IAM and secrets management for application access, and reviewing the cloud architecture the application runs on. The boundary with the infrastructure-side security role is genuinely blurry across the population, with most engineers in this slug doing both. AI-specific surfaces—LLM input handling, agent and tool-use boundaries, model-pipeline integrity—are emerging as a meaningful part of the work but sit alongside, not in place of, classical product security. These roles typically sit within security or product engineering organizations, partnering directly with developers to embed security into the build.

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Open Jobs42
Companies Hiring23
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Skills

What companies are looking for in this role.

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Designing and implementing security controls for infrastructure, compute, and identity systems across cloud platforms

95%

Conducting threat modeling and security architecture assessments for complex systems and applications

92%

Integrating security controls into CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code workflows

90%

Implementing vulnerability scanning and remediation workflows including static and dynamic analysis tools

90%

Conducting in-depth security code reviews and identifying exploitable vulnerabilities

88%

Building and maintaining scalable data pipelines for security telemetry, logs, and observability

88%

Architecting secure-by-default infrastructure using kernel-level security mechanisms and runtime policies

85%

Designing and operationalizing secure software development lifecycle practices and processes

85%

Building detection and response systems for identifying and remediating security threats at scale

82%

Managing software supply chain security including artifact signing, provenance tracking, and dependency analysis

78%

Designing and implementing abuse detection systems and automated enforcement mechanisms

75%

Establishing and operating penetration testing programs and red team exercises

72%

Building endpoint detection and response systems including kernel-based sensors

70%

Conducting digital forensics investigations and supporting incident response workflows

65%

Designing privacy-preserving systems and implementing data anonymization frameworks

62%
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Designing and implementing security controls for AI and machine learning systems and agents

88%

Building guardrails and detection mechanisms for large language models and AI-generated content

80%

Architecting agent security frameworks including sandboxing, permissioning, and execution boundaries

78%

Implementing security controls for AI model artifact storage, data lineage, and model signing

75%

Developing threat models and security strategies specific to machine learning pipelines and model training

72%

Building security systems for agentic workflows including input validation and output monitoring

70%

Designing attestation verification systems and consuming trust primitives from hardware

62%
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Collaborating with cross-functional engineering and product teams to embed security into systems from design phase

93%

Translating complex security requirements and regulatory constraints into scalable technical solutions

82%

Communicating security vulnerabilities and architectural risks clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders

80%

Mentoring engineers and driving security adoption across organizations

80%

Building and rolling out security programs from inception including tooling, standards, and policies

78%

Driving multi-month security initiatives independently from problem definition through execution

75%

Evaluating and assessing third-party security tools, vendors, and platforms

68%
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Open Jobs

42 open Product Security Engineer jobs across 23 companies.

Anthropic2d
Security Software Engineer, Platform Integration
New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA·Engineering
Harvey6d
Staff Software Engineer, Product Security
San Francisco·Engineering
Harvey6d
Staff Software Engineer, Product Security
New York·Engineering
CoreWeave1w
Staff AI Security Engineer
Livingston, NJ / New York, NY / Sunnyvale, CA / Bellevue, WA·Engineering
Reflection1w
Member of Technical Staff - Security Engineer
San Francisco·Engineering
Anthropic1w
Senior Security Software Engineer, Linux Kernel Security - Nodes & Sensors
Zürich, CH·Engineering
Replit2w
Staff Software Engineer, Anti-Abuse & Security
Foster City, CA (Hybrid) In office M,W,F·Engineering
Isomorphic Labs2w
Platform Engineer - Security
London·Engineering
Gong2w
Senior Product Security Engineer
Tel Aviv·Engineering
Gong2w
Senior Product Security Architect
Tel Aviv·Engineering
Scale AI3w
Security Engineer, Product Security
New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; Seattle, WA; Washington, DC·Engineering
OpenAI3w
Software Engineer, Security Observability
San Francisco·Engineering
Decagon4w
Senior Security Engineer
San Francisco·Engineering
Glean1mo
Software Engineer, Platform Security
Remote - US·Engineering
Glean1mo
Software Engineer, AI & Security
Mountain View, CA·Engineering
MongoDB1mo
Security Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security (Staff or Senior)
Austin; New York City; San Francisco; Seattle; United States·Engineering
MongoDB1mo
Security Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security (Staff or Senior)
Dublin; Ireland·Engineering
Waymo1mo
Staff Software Engineer, Privacy
Mountain View, CA, USA·Engineering
MongoDB1mo
Senior Software Engineer, Server Networking Security (Rust)
Dublin·Engineering
CoreWeave1mo
Senior Software Engineer, Security
Sunnyvale, CA·Engineering