Senior Application Security Engineer, Ai And Machine Learning

Lightning AI

San Francisco, California, United States
$180,000 - $220,000 py
On-site
Threat modeling ai platforms
Securing ml pipelines
Application security engineering
Perform threat modeling across AI platforms, inference services, and ML pipelines, identifying risks such as prompt injection, model extraction, adversarial inputs, and data leakage

Job Summary

  • Perform threat modeling across AI platforms, inference services, and ML pipelines, identifying risks such as prompt injection, model extraction, adversarial inputs, and data leakage.
  • Build security automation for AI and application pipelines, integrating security scanning into CI/CD workflows and developing tooling to help engineers detect and fix issues early.
  • This role sits at the intersection of application security, AI infrastructure, and developer platforms, helping to define how modern AI systems are secured while enabling engineers to move quickly and safely.

Matching Summary

Perform threat modeling across AI platforms, inference services, and ML pipelines, identifying risks such as prompt injection, model extraction, adversarial inputs, and data leakage.

Salary

$180,000 - $220,000

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Threat modeling AI platforms
  • Securing ML pipelines
  • Application security engineering
  • Cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure)
  • Containers and Kubernetes
  • Python or Go scripting

Nice-to-have

  • Red team or offensive security
  • LLM systems and RAG pipelines
  • GPU infrastructure experience
  • Hugging Face, PyTorch, TensorFlow
  • Securing multi-tenant infrastructure

Key Requirements

  • Strong background in application security engineering
  • Experience performing threat modeling and architecture reviews
  • Experience securing APIs and distributed systems
  • Experience working in cloud environments
  • Experience with containers and Kubernetes
  • Strong scripting or programming skills
  • Experience securing ML pipelines, inference systems, or data platforms
  • Familiarity with AI security risks

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