Spring Health
Staff AI Security Engineer
San Francisco, CA (Hybrid) · Staff+
Sponsorship not specified$239k-$270kDetected 5 days ago
SpringGitCI/CDMachine LearningLLMsRAGA/B TestingCybersecurityIncident ResponseResearchCollaborationMentoring
About the role
- As an AI-native company, we believe technology should expand the reach, quality, and humanity of care.
- Reporting to the CISO, you will define and evolve our AI security strategy to protect highly sensitive mental health data across both product and corporate environments.
- Please note that this is a hybrid role based in San Francisco, with an expectation to be in the office 2-3 days per week at our 44 Montgomery Street location.
Responsibilities
- Lead secure design and threat modeling for AI systems including LLMs, agentic workflows, and retrieval pipelinesIdentify and mitigate risks such as prompt injection, data exfiltration, model abuse, and privilege escalation
- Build scalable AI security guardrails and tooling that enable safe experimentation across engineering and business teams
- Take ownership of and lead our AI Red Team to proactively identify vulnerabilities
- Design and implement AI observability pipelines to detect anomalous model behavior and policy violations in near real-time
- Develop and operationalize AI incident response playbooks to ensure rapid containment of security events
- Partner with product and engineering teams to enable responsible AI innovation in a hyper-growth environment
- Experience developing or implementing automated LLM vulnerability testing for prompt injection and data exfiltration
- Strong foundation in application security principles, threat modeling, secure design, and identity and access control
- Demonstrated ability to build tools and automation with a developer mindset
Compensation
- Develop AI incident response playbooks and conduct at least one AI-focused tabletop or live simulation per year
- The target base salary range for this position is $239,200 - $270,000, and is part of a competitive total rewards package including stock options and benefits.
- We review all employee pay and compensation programs annually using Radford Global Compensation Database at minimum to ensure competitive and fair pay.
- $200 per year donation matching to support your favorite causes.
Benefits
- Health, Dental, Vision benefits start on your first day at Spring.
- You and your dependents also receive access to One Medical accounts HSA and FSA plans are also available, with Spring contributing up to $1K for HSAs, depending on your plan type.
- Employer sponsored 401(k) match of up to 2% for retirement planning
- A yearly allotment of no cost visits to the Spring Health network of therapists, coaches, and medication management providers for you and your dependents.
- We offer competitive paid time off policies including vacation, sick leave and company holidays.
- At 6 months tenure with Spring, we offer parental leave of 18 weeks for birthing parents and 16 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- Access to fertility care support through Carrot, in addition to $4,000 reimbursement for related fertility expenses.
- Access to Wellhub, which connects employees to the best options for fitness, mindfulness, nutrition, and sleep in one subscription
- Up to $1,000 Professional Development Reimbursement a year.
- Our mission: e liminating every barrier to mental health.
- Spring Health is a global mental health company on a mission to eliminate every barrier to mental health.
- We're building a world where getting support is simple, personal, and built around the person, so care can continue through every job, move, health plan, and life stage.
- Individual pay may vary from the target range and is determined by a number of factors including experience, location, internal pay equity, and other relevant business considerations.
Company info
- e liminating every barrier to mental health.
- Our AI-native platform helps us deliver personalized support across self-guided tools, coaching, therapy, medication management, and specialty care.
- With outcomes independently validated by JAMA Network Open and the Validation Institute, Spring Health reaches more than 170 million people worldwide through leading employers, health plans, and partners.
- Every Spring Health team member is expected to use AI tools thoughtfully, apply human judgment to AI outputs, and keep building AI fluency in ways that support their role and our mission.
- We are actively seeking a Staff AI Security Engineer to join our team.
- Candidates must be based in the San Francisco metro area or able to relocate independently within 90 days of their start date.
- Occasional travel will be required for team on-sites.
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