Brainco
AI Application Security Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area · Senior
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About the role
- Brain Co.'s products are built on agentic infrastructure - AI that takes actions, calls tools, and operates inside complex institutional workflows.
- Integrate security into the development lifecycle - code review, CI/CD pipelines, and pre-deployment checks - catching risk before it reaches production.
- Conduct threat modeling across product features and release cycles, translating risk into concrete controls that ship alongside each product.
Responsibilities
- Brain Co. builds AI-native operating systems for large, regulated institutions.
- Every project here ships to production and is expected to create measurable customer value and impact.
- You will write code, ship security tooling, and work directly with product and ML engineers to build security in from the start rather than bolt it on after.
- Build and maintain security tooling and automated checks that scale your reach across the codebase - using AI to move faster and cover more ground than manual review alone could.
- Define what application and AI security looks like at a company building frontier AI for governments, hospitals, and critical industries - from the ground up.
- Build the security function AI-natively - using the same technology you're helping secure to scale your own work and impact.
- Thrive in high-agency environments and want to own and grow the application security function as the company scales.
Requirements
- The degree varies by product, but the underlying security surface is consistent: how agents are authorized, what they can touch, and how that is controlled at the application layer.
- Have 5+ years of experience in application security or product security, with hands-on experience on production systems at scale.
- Experience with agent security, LLM application security, or building authorization and guardrail systems for agentic pipelines.
- Proficiency in Python, Go, or TypeScript for security tooling and automation.
- Experience with SAST/DAST tooling or integrating automated security checks into developer workflows at scale.
Compensation
- Earn competitive compensation and meaningful equity in a high-growth company.
Benefits
- Competitive salary plus equity
- Commuter benefits
- Medical, Dental, and Vision
- Earn competitive compensation and meaningful equity in a high-growth company.
Company info
- Rebuild how the world works, to make institutions work better for the people they serve.
- ABOUT BRAIN CO.
- Each system is built for a specific industry, powered by agents that push real workflows forward.
- Underneath it all is Atlas, our proprietary platform that keeps customers in control, secure by design, and never locked into one model.
- Brain Co. is entering its next phase of production deployments on a national scale with an elite team built from Palantir, Google, Meta, and Nvidia, and a growing footprint across government, insurance, health, and financial services.
- Joining now means shaping both the company and a new category of applied AI.
- You'll work alongside exceptional peers on some of the hardest problems in applied AI.
- It's the kind of work you'll still be proud of in ten years from now.
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