Magic
Member of Technical Staff, Security Engineer
San Francisco · Staff+
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About the role
- The role sits at the intersection of software engineering, infrastructure, and security.
- You will work closely with researchers, infrastructure engineers, and platform teams to reduce risk while considering the productivity impact.
- You will help us make the secure path the easy, productive path.
Responsibilities
- As a Security Engineer at Magic, you will build the software, automation, and infrastructure that protect our models, systems, and engineering organization from both traditional and frontier AI cyber threats.
- You will respond to security threats, help us build good practices around security incident/threat response.
- Design, build, and maintain security tooling and automation used by Magic's engineering teams
- Support our sandboxes team with building secure sandboxing and isolation for untrusted code, agent and model execution
- Build guardrails against emerging AI attack vectors, including prompt injection, tool abuse, exploit chaining, and autonomous model behavior
Requirements
- Track record of exceptional personal integrity, accountability and trustworthiness in high autonomy environments
Skills
- Experience securing distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or large-scale production environments
Compensation
- Annual salary ranges between $225K - $550K based on experience
- 401(k) plan with 6% salary matching
Benefits
- Equity is a significant part of total compensation, in addition to salary
- Generous health, dental and vision insurance for you and your dependents
- Unlimited paid time off
- Visa sponsorship and relocation stipend to bring you to SF, if possible
- You will collaborate with our alignment team on whatever they might need to ensure that Magic's models are a safe net-benefit to the world.
Company info
- Magic's mission is to build safe AGI that accelerates humanity's progress on the world's most important problems.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Visa sponsorship and relocation stipend to bring you to SF, if possible
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