Senior Software Engineer, Security AI
About The Position
Join us in building the future of finance. Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading. About the team + role We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards. The Security AI team at Robinhood leverages Agentic AI technologies to build intelligent systems that safeguard our platform and protect our customers. Our mission is to proactively detect, prevent, and respond to security threats at scale. We enable rapid innovation through automation, smart detection, and actionable insights. As a Senior Software Engineer on this team, you’ll leverage your deep AI expertise to help inform AI product direction, decisions and business use cases. You’ll also help develop and maintain the infrastructure and tooling that empowers our security engineering and operations. You'll work closely with security teams, operation teams, and infrastructure teams to deploy resilient pipelines and agentic workflows. It’s a high-impact, deeply collaborative environment where safety and innovation go hand-in-hand! This role is based in our Bellevue, WA office, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week. At Robinhood, we believe in the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community. Our office experience is intentional, energizing, and designed to fully support high-performing teams.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, including backend or infrastructure work.
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages such as Python, or Go.
- Experience with Agentic AI tooling, data pipelines, or cloud-based infrastructure.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills, with a bias for action and learning.
Nice To Haves
- Familiarity with security systems, anomaly detection, or fraud prevention is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Leverage your AI expertise to make meaningful contributions to our AI application roadmap within security as we explore new business use cases.
- Build and scale agentic platform to support real-time security decision-making and automation.
- Design systems and tooling to accelerate experimentation, training, and deployment of security aware knowledge base.
- Partner with security engineers and researchers to turn insights into production-ready systems.
- Improve observability, monitoring, and alerting for critical AI-driven security workflows.
- Contribute to code quality and team-wide engineering best practices.
Benefits
- Challenging, high-impact work to grow your career
- Performance driven compensation with multipliers for outsized impact, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching
- Best in class benefits to fuel your work, including 100% paid health insurance for employees with 90% coverage for dependents
- Lifestyle wallet - a highly flexible benefits spending account for wellness, learning, and more
- Employer-paid life & disability insurance, fertility benefits, and mental health benefits
- Time off to recharge including company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and more!
- Exceptional office experience with catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
