Senior AI Security Research Engineer
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Senior AI security engineer securing Samsara’s Connected Operations IoT platform. Red-teaming software, cloud, hardware, and firmware against AI-driven attacks.
Responsibilities:
- Deliver security assessments of Samsara’s software, code, and firmware against AI-driven/adversarial attacks
- Implement application, software, hardware, and firmware security fixes
- Translate general AI security findings into Samsara-specific application security fixes
- Adapt software security techniques for hardware and embedded firmware
- Build and pressure-test AI-enabled security tooling and workflows
- Drive adoption of valuable security tooling across the broader security organization
- Partner with engineering, hardware, and leadership, including VP-level threat-modeling sessions
- Serve as Samsara’s subject-matter expert on AI-related security risk
- Define and drive Samsara’s medium- and long-term strategy for safe and effective AI adoption in security operations
- Conduct offensive validation and red-team Samsara’s systems using frontier AI/LLM tools
- Champion Samsara’s cultural principles as the company scales globally
Requirements:
- 8+ years of experience in application security, vulnerability management, threat modeling, offensive security, or a closely related discipline
- Demonstrated application fix impact and influence across a large part of an organization
- Hands-on experience applying AI/LLM tools to real security workflows, including APIs, agents, or automation
- Experience conducting technical security assessments across software and hardware/firmware environments
- Experience creating secure-code solutions with engineers using languages such as GoLang
- Experience developing AI and agentic solutions using GitHub and AWS cloud
- Required experience integrating, securing, or red-teaming AI-enabled systems, such as LLMs, agentic workflows, prompt injection, or adversarial testing
- Experience with AI-specific attack techniques such as prompt injection, jailbreaks, and model/agent abuse
- Experience building or validating security controls for agentic AI, RAG systems, or LLM-integrated platforms
- Track record of driving organization-wide security strategy or presenting technical findings to senior/executive stakeholders
- Relevant industry certifications such as OSCP, GIAC, CISSP, or AWS certifications are advantageous
Benefits:
- Initial RSU grant with no vesting cliff
- Ongoing refresh equity opportunities tied to performance
- Performance-based bonus/variable pay
- Flexible, employee-led remote model
- Professional development stipend
- Comprehensive health plans
- Parental leave plans
- Above-market total compensation opportunities
- Offices available for employees who prefer to work in-person
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