Member of Technical Staff, Security Engineer

The role

You will build software, automation, and infrastructure to protect models, systems, and the engineering organization from traditional and frontier AI cyber threats. You will work at the intersection of software engineering, infrastructure, and security.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain security tooling and automation
• Secure developer infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and production services
• Support the sandboxes team with building secure sandboxing and isolation for untrusted code, agent and model execution
• Build guardrails against emerging AI attack vectors
• Protect model weights, research artifacts, datasets, and production infrastructure
• Respond to security incidents and live threats

Required qualifications

• Software engineering skills with experience building production systems in Rust, Go, Python, C++, Kotlin, TypeScript, or similar languages
• A very good understanding of modern MITRE att&ck techniques
• Actively engaged in the role of LLMs in securing and attacking software systems
• On-call readiness 24/7, assisted by our team
• Experience securing distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or large-scale production environments
• Ability to develop high-complexity cloud Linux-based exploits
• Deep understanding of UNIX or other operating systems, networking, authentication, authorization, and modern security architecture
• Experience building automation and tooling to secure fast paced organizations
• Track record of exceptional personal integrity, accountability and trustworthiness in high autonomy environments

Benefits

• 401(k) plan with 6% salary matching
• Generous health, dental and vision insurance for you and your dependents
• Unlimited paid time off
• Visa sponsorship and relocation stipend to bring you to SF, if possible

About the company

Magic's mission is to build safe AGI that accelerates humanity's progress on the world's most important problems. The company believes the most promising path to safe AGI lies in automating research and code generation.