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Job Summary:
WRITER is seeking a Detection and Response Engineer to safeguard their AI/AGI platforms from evolving threats. This role involves designing advanced detections, automating rapid responses, and leading investigations into incidents affecting their AI stack, ensuring the security of their infrastructure.
Responsibilities:
• Engineer advanced threat detection — Design and implement detections for AI/ML-specific threats including prompt injection, model extraction, data poisoning, and adversarial inputs.
• Automate security responses — Build playbooks and orchestration workflows that contain AI-targeted attacks in minutes, not hours.
• Lead AI incident response — Coordinate cross-team investigations into compromises of models, training data, and inference endpoints.
• Hunt for AI-specific threats — Proactively search for active attacks across GPU clusters, training pipelines, and model deployments.
• Enhance visibility & telemetry — Onboard, optimize, and analyze logging from AI infrastructure to detect anomalies and misuse.
• Collaborate across domains — Partner with AI Security on threat intelligence, Cloud/Infrastructure on runtime monitoring, and Software Security Engineering on customer-impacting incidents.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 8+ years in security operations, detection engineering, or incident response.
• 3+ years securing AI/ML infrastructure or high-performance computing environments.
• Proven ability to detect and stop sophisticated attacks.
• Experience with distributed systems, GPU cluster security, and cloud-native monitoring.
• Proficiency with SIEM platforms and detection technologies.
• Strong programming skills in Python, KQL, SPL, or similar.
• Deep understanding of AI/ML attack vectors such as adversarial examples, model inversion, and membership inference.
• Experience securing training pipelines, model deployments, and sensitive research environments.
• Knowledge of GPU computing security challenges.
• Hands-on forensics experience in distributed or cloud-based systems.
• Demonstrated success in building detections for novel, AI-specific attack techniques.
• History of safeguarding high-value intellectual property.
• Proven record of automating incident response at scale.
• Track record of uncovering critical security gaps through proactive threat hunting.
Preferred:
• Background in AI/ML engineering or research.
• Experience with AI safety and AI/ML security research.
• Familiarity with APT tactics targeting AI companies.
• Contributions to the AI security research community.
• Experience with confidential computing or secure enclaves.
Company:
Writer is a software firm that develops a full-stack generative AI platform delivering transformative ROI for enterprises. Founded in 2020, headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, team size 201-500 employees, currently Growth Stage. WRITER has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.
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