Security Engineer III, AI Protection

Company: Google

Location: Seattle, WA

Salary: $147,000 - $211,000 a year

Type: Full-time

Posted: 2026-04-02

About this role

In accordance with Washington state law, we are highlighting our comprehensive benefits package, which is available to all eligible US based employees. Benefits for this role include:

  • Health, dental, vision, life, disability insurance
  • Retirement Benefits: 401(k) with company match
  • Paid Time Off: 20 days of vacation per year, accruing at a rate of 6.15 hours per pay period for the first five years of employment
  • Sick Time: 40 hours/year (statutory, where applicable); 5 days/event (discretionary)
  • Maternity Leave (Short-Term Disability + Baby Bonding): 28-30 weeks
  • Baby Bonding Leave: 18 weeks
  • Holidays: 13 paid days per year.

### Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
  • 2 years of experience with security assessments or security design reviews or threat modeling.
  • 2 years of experience with security engineering, computer and network security and security protocols.
  • 2 years of coding experience in one or more general purpose languages.

### Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience in security assessments, vulnerability management and security research.
  • Experience in conducting AI Red Teaming or participating in AI bug bounties.
  • Experience in analyzing systems and identifying security and abuse problems, threat modeling, and remediation.
  • Understanding of Generative AI technologies, Large Language Models (LLMs) and AI agents.

## About the job

Our Security team works to create and maintain the safest operating environment for Google's users and developers. Security Engineers work with network equipment and actively monitor our systems for attacks and intrusions. In this role, you will also work with software engineers to proactively identify and fix security flaws and vulnerabilities.

As the Security Engineer, you will be a thought leader and subject matter expert in AI safety and security. You will be responsible for identifying emerging patterns and trends across a full-spectrum of threats...

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