Staff Product Security AI Engineer

PayPalAustin, TX
$160,500 - $238,700Hybrid

About The Position

As a Staff Product Security Engineer, AI Security at PayPal, you'll help protect 439M active accounts and $1.8T in annual payment volume by leading technical work across three areas: securing AI-assisted software development, protecting AI-enabled products and agentic systems, and applying AI to improve vulnerability detection and remediation. You'll partner with Security Architecture, engineering, product, and platform teams to turn AI security requirements into scalable controls and enforcement across PayPal's products and business units. This is a hands-on IC role with cross-organizational scope: you'll help set technical direction, lead delivery, and mentor engineers while staying involved in architecture reviews, control design, and implementation. Your work will reduce exploitable vulnerabilities from AI-assisted development and misuse by AI-enabled systems, while improving PayPal's ability to detect, validate, and remediate vulnerabilities at scale.

Requirements

  • 5+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.

Nice To Haves

  • Securing AI-assisted software development
  • Protecting AI-enabled products and agentic systems
  • Applying AI to improve vulnerability detection and remediation
  • Partnering with Security Architecture, engineering, product, and platform teams
  • Setting technical direction
  • Leading delivery
  • Mentoring engineers
  • Involvement in architecture reviews, control design, and implementation

Responsibilities

  • Leverage specialized security expertise to identify and resolve complex security issues, recommending best practices and determining new approaches that have an impact on broader security operations, while aligning security strategies with business priorities
  • Partner across teams and key stakeholders to drive security initiatives, leading and solutioning complex projects and programs to strengthen overall security posture.
  • Apply advanced analytical skills and sound judgment to solve security challenges, considering diverse perspectives and innovative solutions. Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies, understanding their security implications to the company’s context.
  • Directly contribute to improvements within the security domain and occasionally beyond, ensuring decisions lead to meaningful enhancements in security practices.
  • Leverage relationships across teams, both within and outside of security, to influence initiatives and integrate feedback into security processes.

Benefits

  • Generous paid time off
  • Healthcare coverage for you and your family
  • Resources to create financial security
  • Support your mental health
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