Software Security Engineering Manager, Secure Frameworks
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What the team is looking for.
Job Overview
We're seeking a Security Engineering Manager to lead our Secure Frameworks Research team, building high-leverage security frameworks and libraries for secure model development.
Key Responsibilities
- Design frameworks and libraries for secure handling of sensitive data, including model weights, customer data, and training datasets.
- Own and ensure outstanding user experience, proactive monitoring, and responsive support for what you build.
- Enable other teams to build security solutions by providing design pattern guidance and expanding security ownership.
- Partner with product, research, and infrastructure teams to ensure smooth integration with lower-layer security controls.
- Make strategic decisions on which frameworks to build based on security risk and translate into prioritized roadmaps.
- Define success metrics around framework adoption and impact.
- Manage and grow a team of engineers to deliver high-impact projects balancing security rigor with development velocity.
Minimum Qualifications
- 3+ years managing security engineering teams with a proven track record of team productivity.
- 5+ years hands-on security and software engineering experience.
- Deep expertise in securing complex architectures, threat modeling, and risk assessment.
- Strong cross-functional collaboration skills, balancing security requirements with developer experience and velocity.
- Clear and persuasive communicator in both writing and verbal settings.
- Passionate about building diverse, high-performing teams and growing engineers.
- Experience working with technical internal customers.
- Familiarity with AI safety concepts and frameworks.
Logistics
- Annual Salary: $405,000-$485,000 USD
- Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience.
- Location-based hybrid policy: Currently, we expect all staff to be in one of our offices at least 25% of the time.
- Visa sponsorship: We do sponsor visas.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Optional equity donation matching
- Generous vacation and parental leave
- Flexible working hours
- Lovely office space
- security engineering
- software engineering
- threat modeling
- risk assessment
- cross-functional collaboration
- AI safety
- familiarity with AI safety concepts and frameworks
- experience working with technical internal customers
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