Security Engineer (Platform Security)

Join Plaid's Platform Security team as a Security Engineer focused on AI security. You'll be the first line of defense against AI-related security risks, reviewing new AI technologies, designing and implementing controls, and building systems to track and manage AI identities. Your work will have a significant impact on reducing AI-related incidents, speeding up AI shipping, and creating scalable controls. Enjoy a vibrant work environment, competitive pay, comprehensive health benefits, and various lifestyle perks.

Must-have: hands-on experience securing AI technologies, including at least one of:

Deploying guardrails or sandboxes,

Software security review, SDLC, vulnerability discovery, and/or offensive security experience

USD 188,748 - 242,676

About Plaid

We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!

Experience on a Infrastructure Security, Cloud Security, Platform Security, Corporate Security, Security Operations (SecOps), and/or Detection & Response team

Responsibilities

• Review AI systems and integrations for security risk before and after deployment, and design and deploy guardrails, sandboxes, and other controls that contain what AI agents can do.
• Build or implement systems to track and manage AI identities, so we know what access every AI has been granted and can balance risk with agility.
• Run AI-focused security reviews and set the bar other teams build to, with the goal of reducing AI-related incidents and enabling faster AI shipping.
• Detecting or mitigating prompt injection,
• Running AI security reviews, or
• Managing AI identities,

Requirements

• 3-6 years of experience
• Implementing AI security tooling (built or bought)
• Experience at a frontier AI lab or on a security team defending production AI systems at scale