Staff Software Engineer, AI Security, Central Technology

Chan Zuckerberg • Redwood City, CA

158d • $241,000 - $362,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was founded by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg in 2015 to help solve some of society's toughest challenges - from eradicating disease and improving education to addressing the needs of our local communities. Our mission is to build a more inclusive, just, and healthy future for everyone. As a Staff Software Engineer, AI Security Engineering on the Central Tech team, you will focus on securing systems to enable the use of AI across the organization by making it safe and easy to incorporate more data and models. You will work on a collaborative multi-disciplinary team to identify risk/reward tradeoffs and build secure AI solutions.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on security.
• Proficiency in Python and at least one systems-level language (e.g., Go, Rust, or C++).
• Experience with securing cloud-based and on-prem AI infrastructure.
• A desire to automate systems to minimise human errors.
• Ability to work cross functionally across the organization.

Nice To Haves

• Background in privacy-enhancing technologies (e.g., differential privacy, federated learning, homomorphic encryption).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure-by-default infrastructure and services supporting AI/ML workloads.
• Collaborate with AI/ML engineers, data engineers, and platform teams to integrate security best practices.
• Develop or acquire tooling and automation to detect and mitigate vulnerabilities specific to AI environments (e.g., model poisoning, data leakage, adversarial attacks).
• Stay current on AI threat landscapes, compliance standards (e.g., NIST AI RMF, GDPR), and emerging security frameworks for AI/ML systems.
• Leverage and contribute to open source tools and technologies.
• Monitor for and respond to emerging threats to AI/ML systems, and participate in incident response and root cause analysis.

Benefits

• Generous employer match on employee 401(k) contributions.
• Annual benefit for employees that can be used for housing, student loan repayment, childcare, commuter costs, or other life needs.
• CZI Life of Service Gifts awarded to employees to support the causes closest to them.
• Paid time off to volunteer at an organization of your choice.
• Funding for select family-forming benefits.
• Relocation support for employees who need assistance moving to the Bay Area.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Industry: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees