Lead Security Engineer

The role

You will secure the models, data, infrastructure, and compute that power Physical Intelligence. You will build and operate systems, partner with researchers on workflows, and automate security safeguards.

What you will do

• Build and operate systems that protect models, data, and compute
• Partner with researchers and engineers on architecture and development workflows
• Automate access management, infrastructure safeguards, and software delivery checks
• Write production-quality tools and contribute fixes directly to engineering repositories
• Find and exploit vulnerabilities, assess impact, and validate fixes
• Set security priorities and bring in outside expertise

Required qualifications

• Strong programming skills in Python, Go, or similar languages
• Experience reviewing unfamiliar code and shipping maintainable software
• Track record of partnering with engineering teams to solve problems from discovery through rollout
• Experience operating and securing cloud infrastructure, including Linux, IAM, networking, containers, or CI/CD
• Connections in the security community
• Curiosity about emerging threats and techniques
• Hands-on offensive security experience
• Sound judgment about real-world risk

Nice to have

• Experience securing AI/ML infrastructure or agent execution environments
• Experience building detection systems or helping establish a security function
• Excitement about robotics and a desire to learn

Before you apply

• Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records

About the company

Physical Intelligence is bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world. The company consists of engineers, scientists, roboticists, and company builders developing foundation models and learning algorithms.