Platform Security Engineer

Applied Compute•San Francisco, CA

3d•Onsite

About The Position

As the platform security engineer, you'll help shape Applied Compute's security posture as we scale. We train custom models on the most sensitive thing our F500 customers have — their proprietary workflows, institutional knowledge, and production data — and we deploy autonomous agents back into those environments. Our customers rely on us being uncompromising about how we handle their data, credentials, and execution boundaries. We've built strong foundations to earn that trust and we're investing heavily in the people and systems to take it to the next level. This role demands a security practitioner who thinks like an attacker, builds like an engineer, and has the judgment to know where to invest. You'll partner closely with infrastructure, product, and applied research engineers to make security a first-class concern from design through deployment. You'll also help us pioneer what AI-native defense looks like — using our own agent stack to detect, investigate, and pre-empt threats at machine speed. We're building security to defend against the strongest attackers with access to the most capable LLMs.

Requirements

5+ years of hands-on experience in platform security and cyber defense
Have an exceptional eye for finding flaws others miss, and instinctively ask "how would I break this"
Lead with a strong grasp of offensive security, anticipating risk from an adversary's perspective rather than checking compliance boxes
Bring a builder's mindset — you have experience shipping secure software to production
Have strong judgment to identify the most important security vulnerabilities and put into practice
Reduce risk through secure design and simplicity; advocate for fundamentals like least privilege, defense-in-depth, and minimizing complexity
Are energized by ambiguity and high autonomy

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience securing complex cloud and multi-tenant environments, especially ones deployed inside customer VPCs
Familiarity with AI/agent-specific risks: prompt injection, tool use abuse, data and model exfiltration
Background in offensive security, vulnerability research, or red teaming against cloud or AI systems
Experience using LLMs to accelerate security workflows — detection, investigation, triage, or automated response
Track record taking compliance programs (SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, FedRAMP) to completion as engineering efforts
Previous experience as a founder, security lead, or early engineer at a zero-to-one company

Responsibilities

Shape the security architecture of our platform end-to-end, from data and credential handling to agent execution and customer deployments
Lead threat modeling and secure design reviews; identify and prioritize the risks, attack surfaces, and assumptions that matter most
Drive our offensive security program: continuously stress-test our platform, agents, and pipelines against the kinds of adversaries we should actually expect to face
Build the tooling, automation, and detections that scale security across the company — including agent-based systems that turn our AI capabilities into a defensive force multiplier
Partner with engineers across the company to instill secure-by-default practices and remove classes of risk through better design
Own the security guarantees we present to enterprise customers and their CISOs
Lead incident response when it matters: detection, containment, communication, and durable fixes
Build our security teams as we grow