webAI
Senior Embedded Security Engineer
Austin, TX · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 40 days ago
RustNode.jsDistributed SystemsCode ReviewPenetration TestingIntellectual PropertyLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- Our platform enables private, sovereign AI through peer-to-peer networking, edge computing, and modern distributed systems.
- We're looking for a highly technical Embedded Security Engineer who thrives at the intersection of software engineering and cybersecurity.
- This founding role is ideal for someone who thinks like an attacker, engineers like a builder, and enjoys solving difficult security problems alongside developers.
Responsibilities
- design and build secure features throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Participate in architecture and design reviews, identifying security risks early and collaborating with engineers on practical, scalable solutions.
- Contribute production-quality code in Rust and other languages as needed to implement security-critical functionality.
- Design and implement secure communication patterns, authentication mechanisms, and cryptographic services for decentralized systems.
- Evaluate new product features for security implications and recommend design improvements before implementation begins.
- Perform security-focused code reviews with an emphasis on exploitability, resiliency, and secure implementation patterns.
- Lead implementation efforts to remediate vulnerabilities discovered through internal testing, penetration testing, or external assessments.
- Design, implement, and improve security controls for peer-to-peer networking, distributed protocols, edge AI workloads, and device-to-device communications.
- Serve as the dedicated security engineering partner for the IDN team, influencing architecture, implementation, and vulnerability remediation activities across the platform.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, application security, product security, or secure systems engineering.
- Software engineering experience with Rust, including developing production systems.
- Experience performing architecture reviews and translating security requirements into engineering solutions.
- Strong knowledge of distributed systems architecture, peer-to-peer networking concepts, trust models, identity systems, secure communications, and modern application architectures.
- Experience implementing or integrating authentication / authorization systems, cryptographic libraries & protocols, secure communications, key management, identity & trust services
- Hands-on experience performing security-focused code reviews and vulnerability analysis.
- Experience embedding with engineering teams and contributing directly to software design and implementation.
- Deep understanding of secure software development practices and secure-by-design principles.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with software engineers to deliver secure, maintainable solutions.
- We at webAI are committed to living out the core values we have put in place as the foundation on which we operate as a team. We seek individuals who exemplify the following:
- Truth - Emphasizing transparency and honesty in every interaction and decision.
- Ownership - Taking full responsibility for one's actions and decisions, demonstrating commitment to the success of our clients.
- Tenacity - Persisting in the face of challenges and setbacks, continually striving for excellence and improvement.
- Humility - Maintaining a respectful and learning-oriented mindset, acknowledging the strengths and contributions of others.
Compensation
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- We strive to provide competitive benefits to all employees.
- The benefits listed in this posting generally apply to U.S.-based employees.
- For employees hired outside the United States, benefits may vary based on local law, country-specific requirements, and the employment platform or entity through which the employee is hired.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision benefits package
- Equity options
- $200/month Health & Wellness stipend
- Continuing Education support
- $500/year Function Health subscription
- Flexible Time Off (FTO)
- Parental leave for eligible employees
- Supplemental life insurance
- We adhere to these principles in all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, benefits, social and recreational programs, and discipline.
Company info
- webAI is pioneering the future of artificial intelligence by establishing the first distributed AI infrastructure dedicated to personalized AI.
- We recognize the evolving demands of a data-driven society for scalability and flexibility, and we firmly believe that the future of AI lies in distributed processing at the edge, bringing computation closer to the source of data generation.
- We are developing an end-to-end platform that is secure, scalable, and fully under the control of our users, empowering enterprises with AI that understands their unique business.
- We are a team driven by truth, ownership, tenacity, and humility, and we seek individuals who resonate with these core values and are passionate about shaping the next generation of AI.
- Our mission is to build a future where a company's valuable data and intellectual property remain entirely private, enabling the deployment of large-scale AI models directly on standard consumer hardware without compromising the information embedded within those models.
This listing is sourced directly from webAI's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.