Staff Engineer, AI Security and Product Security

About this role

Your work will change lives. Including your own.


The Impact You’ll Make

• Define and lead product security strategy across web, mobile, API, cloud, infrastructure, and container security — conducting threat modeling, risk assessments, and security reviews throughout the development lifecycle with a strong shift-left focus.
• Embed secure development practices by designing and implementing secure coding standards, encryption, and security testing methodologies in close collaboration with development and ML teams, ensuring products are secure, resilient, and trustworthy.
• Own Enterprise AI Security end-to-end — from securing LLM integrations, agentic pipelines, and ML model ingestion to defending against AI-specific threats (prompt injection, data poisoning, model extraction, RAG poisoning, ), building AI incident response playbooks, and red-teaming AI systems across Recursion's product surfaces.
• Secure the AI supply chain and MLOps infrastructure by vetting third-party foundation models, open-source weights, and AI APIs before production integration, and partnering with ML engineering to protect training pipelines, feature stores, and model serving endpoints.
• Champion compliance and AI governance by operationalizing frameworks such as OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS, NIST AI RMF, and EU AI Act requirements — collaborating with legal, privacy, and responsible AI teams to support audits and evolving regulatory expectations.
• Scale security as a force multiplier by evaluating and deploying security tooling, detecting policy violations, driving security outcomes, and ensuring security initiatives never become a bottleneck to business objectives.
• Elevate the security culture across the organization by serving as a subject matter expert, mentoring engineering teams, and leading incident response efforts from investigation through mitigation and prevention.
• Maintain the security foundation through thorough documentation — including security requirements, ...