Senior Software Engineer, AI Security
About The Position
Robinhood is building a scalable and secure AI platform that enables security teams to develop and operate AI-powered agents and security solutions with confidence. The Senior Software Engineer on the AI Security team will build foundational platform capabilities, infrastructure, and security primitives to help teams develop AI-powered security capabilities at scale. The work addresses complex engineering problems at the intersection of AI, distributed systems, and security, particularly identity, authentication, authorization, encryption, and platform safety. This is a hands-on engineering role that partners with security, infrastructure, and engineering teams across Robinhood. The engineer will build systems that make AI development easier while ensuring security is integrated into the platform from the start, and will help shape the technical direction and architecture of the growing AI Security platform. The position is based in Robinhood’s Menlo Park, California, or Bellevue, Washington, offices, with in-person attendance expected at least three days per week.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of software development experience.
- At least 3 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems, including designing systems around security concepts such as authentication, authorization, identity, or encryption.
- Experience building AI platforms, AI infrastructure, or production systems that support AI-powered applications or agents.
- Proficiency in Go or Python, with strong problem-solving and production debugging skills.
- Experience with cloud-native platforms and distributed systems technologies such as AWS, Kubernetes, gRPC, or Kafka.
- Strong understanding of security fundamentals and experience incorporating security into production system design.
- Experience designing and building reusable platform capabilities, APIs, libraries, or developer tooling.
- Proven experience delivering large engineering projects with meaningful, long-term impact.
- Strong technical judgment and ability to make thoughtful trade-offs across security, reliability, scalability, and developer experience.
- Ability to solve complex engineering problems and collaborate effectively across security and engineering teams.
Responsibilities
- Design and build a scalable AI platform for security teams to develop, deploy, and operate AI-powered agents and security capabilities.
- Build foundational platform services, APIs, libraries, and SDKs that help teams integrate AI into security workflows.
- Design secure systems with identity, authentication, authorization, encryption, and data protection controls.
- Build and operate reliable, large-scale distributed systems for AI-powered security use cases.
- Develop platform capabilities and guardrails for safely building and operating AI agents.
- Partner with security, infrastructure, and engineering teams to understand needs and translate them into reusable platform capabilities.
- Improve platform performance, developer experience, reliability, and security through automation.
- Help shape the technical direction and architecture of Robinhood’s AI Security platform.
Benefits
- Performance-driven compensation, bonus programs, equity ownership, and 401(k) matching.
- 100% paid health insurance for employees and 90% coverage for dependents.
- Access for eligible US employees to invest in a private employee fund with exposure to Robinhood Ventures funds.
- Access to AI tools and continuous AI skill-building.
- Lifestyle wallet, a flexible benefits spending account for wellness, learning, and more.
- Employer-paid life and disability insurance.
- Fertility benefits and mental health benefits.
- Company holidays, paid time off, sick time, parental leave, and other time off.
- Catered meals, events, and comfortable workspaces.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
