Founding Security Engineer
About The Position
AIUC builds standards and insurance for frontier AI, with a mission to underwrite superintelligence. Its AIUC-1 standard for agent security is used by Fortune 500 CISOs to evaluate which AI agents they can trust. The company has raised $55 million and serves frontier AI builders. The role is AIUC’s first security hire, joining as the product opens to the world and the company’s agents test other companies’ agents. The Founding Security Engineer will own security end to end across AIUC’s product, evaluation platform, and internal systems, working directly with the founders. The role will develop and validate defenses for emerging agent security threats, establish secure foundations for running agents, and ensure the company’s product and operations are secure as enterprise adoption grows. The engineer will also contribute findings to the AIUC-1 standard and share learnings with a consortium of more than 300 CISOs through sessions and published work. The position is hands-on initially, with the opportunity to grow into a security leadership role.
Requirements
- Experience as a founding security hire building a security program from zero at a technical or regulated-industry company, or as a core engineer at a security company where security was central to the product.
- Strong production engineering experience and ability to meet the company’s full engineering bar, with willingness to begin hands-on before growing into security leadership.
- Experience securing cloud and infrastructure, including least-privilege IAM, SSO, development/production separation, KMS and secrets management, databases, user management, and identity systems.
- Experience building an agent harness and containing agents through sandboxing, tool permissions, credential isolation, and data-leak controls.
- Ability to own outcomes end to end and enforce security requirements while maintaining productive relationships.
- Experience building detection, logging, and incident response, and securing corporate systems such as SSO, devices, and SaaS.
- Experience reviewing infrastructure changes in Terraform and automating security controls to help engineers move faster.
Nice To Haves
- Experience translating security research into production engineering, such as reproducing new attacks on agents and shipping defenses.
- Deep architecture experience across distributed systems, ML pipelines, or large-scale platforms.
- Interest in learning from enterprise security teams, including the CISO consortium and customers, about how agents are changing their environments.
Responsibilities
- Ensure the product is secure as it reaches more enterprise customers.
- Build a secure foundation for running agents, including sandboxing, agent credential access, and core development practices.
- Own company-wide security across networks, vendors, access, data, and customer security reviews.
- Anticipate risks arising from new products and emerging attack classes.
- Respond quickly to incidents and resolve issues before they become incidents.
- Feed security findings into AIUC-1 and share them with the CISO consortium through sessions and published work.
- Build security from the ground up and make secure practices efficient for engineers.
- Set and maintain security standards, including when doing so is unpopular.
Benefits
- Competitive annual salary.
- Equity, described as a significant part of total compensation.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance for the employee and dependents.
- Visa sponsorship and relocation stipend to bring the employee to San Francisco, if needed.
- Daily lunch, dinner, and snacks.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
