Crusoe
Staff Product Security Engineer
San Francisco, CA - US. Posted 18 months ago
The role
This person will perform advanced penetration testing and lead offensive security initiatives. They will secure AI/ML systems, including LLM pipelines and RAG architectures, while building internal security guardrails.
What you will do
- Performing advanced manual penetration testing across applications, infrastructure, Kubernetes, and microservices
- Leading offensive security initiatives including red team operations and adversary simulation
- Securing AI/ML systems including LLM pipelines, vector databases, RAG architectures, and agentic workflows
- Identifying and researching novel attack surfaces unique to LLMs and autonomous systems
- Influencing secure system design across the SDLC and embedding security into CI/CD pipelines
- Integrating and operationalizing security tooling and driving remediation of vulnerabilities
- Building internal security guardrails such as hardened base images and policy-as-code frameworks
- Developing production-grade security tooling and leading cross-functional security programs
Required qualifications
- 8-10 years of deep hands-on experience in offensive security, including manual penetration testing, red team operations, and adversary simulation
- Familiarity with modern C2 frameworks (e.g., Cobalt Strike, Sliver, Havoc), exploit development, and security research
- Strong expertise across the AI/ML stack, including MLOps, inference architectures, vector databases, RAG, and agentic frameworks
- Experience building, deploying, and securing LLM pipelines and AI workflows in Kubernetes and/or bare-metal environments
- Strong software engineering foundations with experience shipping production code in Go, Python, or Rust
- Hands-on experience securing Kubernetes, containers, VMs, and CI/CD environments
- Deep understanding of application security vulnerabilities, secure coding practices, and distributed system design
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional security initiatives end-to-end
- Strong communication skills with the ability to influence both engineering teams and executive stakeholders
Nice to have
- Public contributions to offensive security or AI security research (talks, blogs, tooling, CVEs, etc.)
- Experience building internal red team or adversary simulation programs
- Background in high-performance computing, AI infrastructure, or cloud-native platform security
- Experience designing policy-as-code frameworks at scale
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Restricted Stock Units
- Paid time off & paid holidays
- Comprehensive health, dental & vision insurance
- Employer contributions to HSA account
- Paid parental leave
- Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
- Professional development & tuition reimbursement
- Mental health & wellness support
- Commuter benefits (parking & transit)
- Cell phone stipend
- 401(k) Retirement plan with company match up to 4% of salary
About the company
Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that owns and operates each layer of the stack to power AI workloads. They use an energy-first approach to solve power bottlenecks for AI compute.