Senior Engineer, Application Security (R6290)

Shield AI•San Diego, CA
•$120,000 - $190,000

About The Position

Shield AI’s Hivemind Enterprise Team is seeking a Senior Application Security Engineer for its Hivemind Enterprise product, a software development kit (SDK) that enables scalable design, deployment, evaluation, and iteration of autonomy architectures for a wide range of robotic platforms. The product provides technical tools and user interfaces for multiple user personas, including AI developers and test engineers. The engineer will join the cybersecurity engineering team and help define application security policies, deploy and configure scanning tools in CI/CD pipelines, review scan results, and work with developers to identify and remediate security issues. The role also involves collaborating with the architecture team to address security proactively by designing a secure-by-default product, performing threat modeling, and validating designs against secure coding standards.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree with approximately 5+ years of relevant experience, or a master’s degree with approximately 4+ years of relevant experience, in cybersecurity, software engineering, or a closely related technical field.
  • Experience developing or testing cyber-secure code.
  • Strong understanding of modern software engineering practices, including CI/CD, automated testing, configuration management, and software lifecycle processes.
  • Familiarity with threat modeling.
  • Experience with software analysis tools, including static analysis, dynamic analysis, dependency mapping, and CVE scanning.
  • Comfort working in a Linux development environment.
  • Strong organizational, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
  • Basic understanding of key cryptography concepts.

Nice To Haves

  • Previous experience on an application security team for a large, complex software product.
  • Experience as a DevSecOps engineer, especially in a GitLab environment.
  • Experience writing software or testing Python, C/C++, and/or Go.
  • Red-teaming experience.
  • Software reverse engineering skills.

Responsibilities

  • Help define application security policies.
  • Deploy and configure scanning tools within CI/CD pipelines.
  • Review scanning results and work with developers to identify and fix security issues in code.
  • Collaborate with the architecture team to design a secure-by-default software product.
  • Perform threat modeling.
  • Validate designs against secure coding standards.

Benefits

  • Bonus
  • Benefits
  • Equity
  • Temporary benefits package for temporary employees, applicable after 60 days of employment
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