Security Engineer (Platform Security)

Join Plaid's Platform Security team as a Security Engineer focused on AI security. You'll be the first line of defense against AI-related security risks, reviewing new AI technologies, designing and implementing controls, and building systems to track and manage AI identities. Your work will have a significant impact on reducing AI-related incidents, speeding up AI shipping, and creating scalable controls. Enjoy a vibrant work environment, competitive pay, comprehensive health benefits, and various lifestyle perks.

• Review AI systems and integrations for security risk before and after deployment, and design and deploy guardrails, sandboxes, and other controls that contain what AI agents can do.
• Build or implement systems to track and manage AI identities, so we know what access every AI has been granted and can balance risk with agility.
• Run AI-focused security reviews and set the bar other teams build to, with the goal of reducing AI-related incidents and enabling faster AI shipping.

• 3-6 years of experience
• Implementing AI security tooling (built or bought)
• Detecting or mitigating prompt injection,
• Running AI security reviews, or
• Managing AI identities,
• Must-have: hands-on experience securing AI technologies, including at least one of:
• Deploying guardrails or sandboxes,
• We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!
• Experience on a Infrastructure Security, Cloud Security, Platform Security, Corporate Security, Security Operations (SecOps), and/or Detection & Response team
• Experience at a frontier AI lab or on a security team defending production AI systems at scale
• Software security review, SDLC, vulnerability discovery, and/or offensive security experience