Senior AI Security Engineer

Responsibilities

• Assess Samsara software, code, hardware, and firmware for resilience against AI-driven and adversarial attacks and implement fixes.
• Translate general AI security findings into application, hardware, and embedded-firmware security improvements.
• Build, pressure-test, and drive adoption of AI-enabled security tools and workflows.
• Conduct offensive validation and red-team exercises using frontier AI and LLM tools.
• Partner with engineering, hardware, and leadership, including VP-level threat-modeling sessions, as the organization’s AI security expert.
• Define and drive the medium- and long-term strategy for safe and effective AI adoption within security operations.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in application security, vulnerability management, threat modeling, offensive security, or a closely related discipline, with demonstrated application-fix impact and broad organizational influence.
• Hands-on experience applying AI and LLM tools to security workflows, including building with APIs, agents, or automation.
• Experience conducting technical security assessments across software and hardware or firmware environments.
• Experience creating secure-code solutions with engineers using languages such as Go.
• Experience developing AI and agentic solutions using GitHub and AWS.
• Preferred experience with prompt injection, jailbreaks, model or agent abuse, agentic AI security controls, RAG systems, LLM-integrated platforms, organization-wide security strategy, and executive-level technical presentations.
• Relevant certifications such as OSCP, GIAC, CISSP, or AWS certifications are preferred.

Benefits

• Remote position for candidates residing in the United States, excluding the San Francisco Bay Metro Area, NYC Metro Area, and Washington, D.C. Metro Area.
• Flexible employee-led remote work model with offices available for those who prefer in-person work.
• Professional development stipend, comprehensive health and parental leave plans, performance-based bonus or variable pay, and equity eligibility.
• Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff and ongoing performance-based refresh opportunities, subject to plan terms.