AI Security Engineer
$155,000–$180,000 year
On-sitePalo Alto, California, United States
Palo Alto, California, United StatesOn-siteFull Time$155,000–$180,000 yearSenior LevelCybersecuritySmall
Full TimeSenior LevelSmallCybersecurity
Job Summary
Develop deep expertise in AI platform authentication, OAuth scopes, and risk concentration points. Research emerging attack techniques like prompt injection and RAG poisoning to build detections and posture checks. Construct threat models covering identity, data access, and non-human identities. Prototype and ship product features end-to-end against Obsidian's AI and SaaS telemetry while building efficient data pipelines. This role requires 3+ years in security engineering with hands-on experience in a modern data stack. Base salary ranges from £155,000 to £180,000 GBP.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years in security engineering as a builder, with clear ownership of shipped work
- Strong grasp of identity and access control concepts
- Hands-on experience with a modern data stack (DBT and a columnar warehouse or query engine such as ClickHouse, Snowflake, BigQuery, or Databricks)
- Clear communicator across engineers, PMs, and customer security teams
Desired Qualifications
- Strong grasp of how SaaS platforms (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Salesforce, Okta) expose data — APIs, event schemas, permissions, auth flows
- Deep knowledge of AI and SaaS security — OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS, prompt injection, agent/tool-use risks, OAuth abuse, and identity models across major AI and SaaS platforms
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