Principal Engineer, AI Security

The role

This person will own security engineering for AI and ML systems, including training and inference pipelines, model registries, MCP servers, and agent runtimes. They will translate the AI security roadmap into controls and reduce risk across the AI lifecycle.

What you will do

• Turn the AI security roadmap into delivered controls with measurable outcomes
• Design and implement security controls across training and inference pipelines, model registries, MCP servers, and agent runtimes
• Keep AI infrastructure continuously compliant against internal standards and applicable frameworks
• Drive vulnerability remediation across AI infrastructure, models, and dependencies to closure with system owners
• Reduce risk across data, models, pipelines, and agentic systems through threat modeling, control design, and adversarial assessment
• Partner with AI Platform, AI Research, ML Operations, Science, and AI Safety

Required qualifications

• Strong background in security engineering, cloud security, or DevSecOps
• Hands-on experience securing production infrastructure
• Working knowledge of AI/ML systems and the ML lifecycle
• Knowledge of AI-specific risks such as prompt injection, model and data poisoning, insecure agent tooling, and inference-time threats
• Experience with software supply chain security and dependency and vulnerability management
• Experience implementing data security controls in cloud environments
• Proven ability to partner across engineering teams and drive cross-functional remediation to closure
• Comfort operating with ambiguity in a fast-moving research environment

Nice to have

• Hands-on AWS security experience
• Experience with SBOM tooling at scale
• Familiarity with AI governance and assurance frameworks such as NIST AI RMF
• Experience with MAESTRO-style threat modeling for agentic systems

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Employer-paid life and disability insurance
• Flexible time off with generous company wide holidays
• Paid parental leave
• Educational assistance program
• Commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees
• Company subsidized lunch program

About the company

Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. The company builds systems that can learn for themselves by combining advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments.