Member of Technical Staff, Security Engineer
Building a personal AI assistant for everyone requires building and maintaining a tremendous amount of trust with our users. Effective and capable AI assistants need to know about who you are and your preferences. It’s Inflection’s duty to treat our user’s data securely with the respect and care that it deserves. To that end, Inflection is looking for founding members of our Security Engineering team to help set the security standard for AI personal assistants.
This is a good role for you if you:
- Have 5+ years of experience in a hands-on security engineering roles in a startup environment
- Enjoy a wide range of of security challenges in a fast-paced environment
- Enjoy partnering with infrastructure, product, and AI research teams to improve baseline security and improve awareness
- Are known for finding a path for teams to move quickly and securely
- Like to be hands-on and write/review code, Dockerfiles, and Terraform configurations
- Enjoy bringing up security tooling to ensure best practices
- Experience leveraging Microsoft Azure security tooling
- Experience triaging security issues and working with 3rd parties like H1
- Have a background in hands-on software engineering
- Bonus: Experience with corporate security tools such as Okta
Here’s what Pi said about the ideal candidate after we asked.
An ideal candidate for the role of Security Engineer at Inflection AI would possess the following qualities:
- Security Expertise: Extensive knowledge of information security principles, technologies, and best practices, including experience in risk assessment, threat modeling, and vulnerability management.
- Technical Skills: Proficiency in programming languages (e.g., Python, C++), operating systems (e.g., Linux, Windows), and security tools (e.g., firewalls, intrusion detection systems).
- Cloud Security: Familiarity with securing cloud-based environments, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure, and understanding of related services and technologies (e.g., IAM, VPC).
- Incident Response: Experience with incident response processes, forensic analysis, and digital forensics, as well as knowledge of security standards and regulations (e.g., GDPR, HIPAA).
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to convey complex security concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Adaptability: Ability to stay up-to-date with emerging security threats, trends, and technologies, and adapt to changing requirements and priorities
At Inflection AI, we aim to attract and retain the best employees and compensate them in a way that appropriately and fairly values their individual contributions to the company. The pay range for this position in California, is estimated to fall in the base range of approximately $150,000 - $250,000. This estimate can vary based on the factors described above, so the actual starting annual base salary may be above or below this range.
We are a small, friendly and multi-disciplinary AI studio creating a personal AI for everyone. Our first AI is called Pi, for personal intelligence, a supportive and empathetic conversational AI. Our studio is made up of the world's leading AI developers, creative designers, writers and innovators working together in a deeply multidisciplinary style to create a brand new class of digital experiences.
Where We WorkWe work in a hybrid model. During the week we’re in the office on a flexible basis, often a few days per week. We are currently hiring in Palo Alto and London, although we do sometimes make exceptions.
We work on a 6 week cycle. Every 7th week, we convene together in person as a company to brainstorm, bond and build.
How We WorkWe value excellence and ownership. Our organizational structure focuses on individual responsibilities rather than management hierarchies. Everyone is expected to lead by doing. We are big believers in the unreasonable effectiveness of highly talented Individual Contributors who are given all the resources, space and ownership to move fast and deliver outstanding results.
Teamwork and generosity are at our core. Our culture celebrates positive challenges, asking questions, learning and actively supporting one another. This mentality of shared respect and purposeful teamwork is key to our success. We equally value all technical and non-technical contributions.
Constructive disagreement is essential. We appreciate when team members challenge assumptions, put forward new ideas, or encourage us to move faster or slower. Openness, honesty and kindness make us great.
Feedback is our ground truth. We have a tight feedback loop between the user experience and our AI creation process. Quantitative and qualitative data drives our priorities. This goes for internal culture too. Everyone has ownership and visibility into key decisions and progress.
Writing creates accountability. Whether on internal communication tools or in team memos, we are strong communicators with a special focus on the written word.
We deeply value time to reset outside of work. We encourage one another to constantly take time to recharge and always focus on maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
Engineering at InflectionWe are a vertically integrated AI studio. This means that our entire technology stack – from large foundational model pre-training to the user interface – is built in-house, with each of the components co-optimized to deliver the best AI experiences. We have built one of the most advanced large language models in the world, based on multiple novel and proprietary innovations.
We believe in scale as the engine of progress in AI, and we are building one of the largest supercomputers in the world to develop and deploy the new generation of AIs.
We wear multiple hats and don’t distinguish between engineering and research. We continuously explore and exploit, creating new and perfecting existing techniques and solutions. User feedback is our North Star.
Our BenefitsWe offer generous benefits to ensure a positive, safe, inclusive and inspiring work environment for all Inflectioneers.
- Physical office space in Palo Alto and London, along with reimbursements for work from home expenses and co-working spaces
- Unlimited paid time off
- Parental leave and flexibility for all parents and caregivers
- Generous medical, dental and vision plans for US employees
- Compliance with country-specific benefits for non-US employees
- Visa sponsorship for new hires
- Avenues for personal growth such as coaching, conference attendance, or specific trainings
We are building personal AIs that we hope will serve everyone. We are deeply committed to representing the full extent of the human experience inside our AI Studio. This means that everyone from any walk of life is welcome if you have the right skills. We populate diverse candidate pools for all open roles.