WRITER

AI

Securityengineer,detectionandresponse

$200–240k San Francisco, California, United States; New York, New York, United States; Irvine, California, United States; Los Angeles, California, United States; Seattle, Washington, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Security engineer, detection and response at WRITER. Skills: Detection engineering, Incident response, AI security, Threat hunting, Automated response. Design and implement detection strategies that identify AI-specific threats. Build automated response playbooks and orchestration workflows”

What You'll Achieve.

Protect the AI infrastructure; Build sophisticated detection systems; Create automated response capabilities that scale; Reduce mean time to response from hours to minutes; Automatically remediating compromised inference endpoints; Build a defense-in-depth strategy; Stay ahead of novel threats; Enable responsible AI development through security guardrails

Industry & Context.

AI
Problems you'll solve

Intellectually fascinating problems; Identifying critical security gaps through proactive threat hunting before they become incidents

Eligibility Requirements

24/7 on-call rotation for critical AI security incidents

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3-5+ years in security operations, detection engineering, or incident response, Proven track record of identifying and stopping sophisticated attacks in production environments, Securing AI/ML infrastructure, high-performance computing environments, or other distributed systems at scale, Programming skills in Python, KQL, SPL, or similar languages, Experience with SIEM platforms, Experience with detection technologies, Experience with forensic investigation techniques, Demonstrated ability to build detection for novel attack techniques, Ability to conduct forensics in complex distributed environments, Self-directed execution mindset, Track record of securing high-value intellectual property, Track record of automating incident response in complex environments, Ability to identify critical security gaps through proactive threat hunting, Alignment with WRITER's values

Nice to Have

Kubernetes a plus

What You'll Do.

Design and implement detection strategies that identify AI-specific threats

Build automated response playbooks and orchestration workflows

Lead security incident response coordination

Hunt proactively for sophisticated threats

Build detection-as-code frameworks

Onboard telemetry from AI training infrastructure and inference endpoints

Create dashboards that track model security metrics

GPU utilization patterns

and access to sensitive research data

Collaborate cross-functionally as the operational security partner

Maintain 24/7 on-call rotation for critical AI security incidents

Respond to real-time threats targeting our platform

Continuously improve detection coverage and automation capabilities

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborate cross-functionally as the operational security partner for all teams; Work closely with our AI Security research team, Cloud Infrastructure, Software Security Engineering, and AI researchers; Connect across security, infrastructure, and AI research teams to build comprehensive defenses

Communication Scope

Drafting clear incident communications for engineering and executive leadership

Full Job Description

📐 About the role Join WRITER's security team as a staff detection and response engineer and help protect the AI infrastructure that's transforming how the world works. You'll build sophisticated detection systems that identify attacks targeting our AI platform, training data, and model deployments while creating automated response capabilities that scale with our explosive growth. This isn't just traditional security work – you're defending cutting-edge AI/AGI systems against adversaries who are evolving their tactics as fast as AI itself advances. This role combines hands-on security engineering with strategic thinking to stay ahead of novel threats that don't exist in textbooks yet. You'll be the operational arm of our security function, translating threat intelligence into real-time detections, coordinating incident response across multiple teams, and hunting for sophisticated attacks across GPU clusters and distributed training environments. If you're excited by the challenge of securing systems that are fundamentally different from anything you've protected before, this is your opportunity to define what AI security engineering looks like at scale. You'll work closely with our AI Security research team, Cloud Infrastructure, Software Security Engineering, and AI researchers to build a defense-in-depth strategy that protects one of the most valuable AI platforms in the industry. The threats are real, the stakes are high, and the problems are intellectually fascinating. This role can be based out of our San Francisco office, reporting to our head of security operations. 🦸🏻‍♀️ What you’ll do - Design and implement detection strategies that identify AI-specific threats including prompt injection, model extraction, data poisoning, adversarial examples, and unauthorized access to training datasets or model weights across our distributed infrastructure - Build automated response playbooks and orchestration workflows that contain threats without human intervention,

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