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Staff Security Engineer
LivekitAI SecurityStaff
AI Security
$135K–$300K / yr
CareersUpdated September 4, 2026
AI Security Jobs
45 open positions across the agentic economy.
01Overview
What is an AI Security engineer?
An AI Security engineer protects AI systems and the companies that build them: application and product security for LLM-powered features, offensive security and red-teaming against prompt injection and tool misuse, detection and incident response when an agent misbehaves in production. The field differs from AI Safety: safety works on model behavior and alignment, security works on threat models, attack surfaces, and controls. Hiring spans frontier labs, AI-native startups hardening agentic products, and enterprise security teams absorbing AI systems. Strong candidates combine classical security engineering with hands-on understanding of how LLM applications actually fail.
As of September 2026, AgenticCareers tracks 45 open AI Security positions across 24 companies. The median advertised salary is $192K–$270K per year (based on 35 listings with disclosed pay). 29% of roles are remote. The most active employers are Vercel, Harvey, Brex.
Full AI Security salary data02At a glance
Role overview
- Common skills
- AI SecuritygreenhouseashbyStaffSeniorMidindeedAI
- Remote availability
- 29% remote
- Salary range
- $122K – $375K
03Open roles
All AI Security positions
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http://livekit.io/
LiveKitAI SecurityMid
AI · ai agent
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Staff Security Engineer
TwilioAI SecurityStaff
AI Security
$156K–$194K / yr
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Principal IAM/PAM Security Architect
CotivitiAI SecurityStaff
Overview: The Principal IAM/PAM Security Architect defines and evolves security architecture for identity and privileged access across a large, complex, multi-domain environment spanning Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, and Okta, as well as cloud-native identities across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI. This role sets security standards for each identity environment, leads the definition of emerging Agentic Identity standards for AI agents and other non-human identities, defines requirements
$160K–$190K / yr
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Security Engineer (Remote)
CiscoAI SecurityMid
The application window is expected to close on: 09/17/2026Meet the Team The Application Security team is a high-impact group dedicated to safeguarding our customer-facing products byidentifying and mitigating security threats before they arise. Our function is to proactively stress-test our ecosystem, ensuring that our innovationsremain secure, resilient, and reliable for our global users. We are a dynamic, expert-led team that balances rigorous offensive security methodologies withcutting
$139K–$251K / yr
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Lead Security Engineer
UnknownAI SecurityLead
## About 8090 The Software Industrial Complex has evolved into a bloated, expensive ecosystem that burdens enterprises with unnecessary complexity and inefficiency. Co-founded and led by Chamath Palihapitiya, we are building a Software Factory that delivers fully-managed and hosted software purpose-built for each customer. ## About the Role We are hiring our first Lead Security Engineer to own application security, cloud security posture, and compliance at 8090. You will report to
$180K–$350K / yr
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Principal Security Researcher – AI (Cybersecurity LLM Post-Training, Evals, and Environments)
Palo Alto NetworksAI SecurityStaff
AI Security
$163K–$264K / yr
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Staff Security Software Engineer, IAM
HarveyAI SecurityStaff
AI Security
$231K–$340K / yr
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Senior Security Engineer, Incident Response
TwilioAI SecuritySenior
AI Security
$142K–$177K / yr
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Staff Engineer - Offensive Security
TwilioAI SecurityStaff
AI Security
$156K–$194K / yr
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Staff Enterprise Security Engineer, AI Security
TwilioAI SecurityStaff
AI Security
$156K–$194K / yr
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Sr/Staff Software Engineers, Security Engineer, Data Scientist
Oscilar.comAI SecurityStaff
AI · data science
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Security Engineer
FactoryAI SecurityMid
ai agent
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all roles fully remote, but some US-only as noted.Senior Web Security Engineer, Browser Platform
DuckDuckGoAI SecuritySenior
data science
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Senior Security Engineer (product security)
ZeptoAI SecuritySenior
AI · ai agent
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Enterprise Security Engineer, Senior & Lead (Enterprise Security - Security AI)
SalesforceAI SecurityLead
AI Security
$149K–$260K / yr
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Product Security Engineer
VercelAI SecurityMid
AI Security
$208K–$312K / yr
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Security Software Engineer, IAM
VercelAI SecurityMid
AI Security
$208K–$312K / yr
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Application Security Engineer II
AbnormalAI SecurityMid
DevOps and Sysadmin · Full-Time
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Staff+ Application Security Engineer
AnthropicAI SecurityStaff
AI Security
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Staff+ Software Engineer, Cybersecurity Products
AnthropicAI SecurityStaff
AI Security
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Senior Product Security Engineer
HarveyAI SecuritySenior
AI Security
$188K–$282K / yr
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Staff Product Security Engineer
HarveyAI SecurityStaff
AI Security
$220K–$330K / yr
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Security Engineer, Cloud
VercelAI SecurityMid
AI Security
$208K–$312K / yr
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Security Engineer, Detection Response
VercelAI SecurityMid
AI Security
$208K–$312K / yr
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Security Software Engineer, Open Source Frameworks
VercelAI SecurityMid
AI Security
$208K–$312K / yr
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Senior Security Software Engineer, v0
VercelAI SecuritySenior
AI Security
$208K–$312K / yr
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Principal Offensive Security Engineer
PostmanAI SecurityStaff
AI Security
$275K–$300K / yr
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Senior AI Product Manager, Cybersecurity
Scale AIAI SecurityLead
AI Security
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Security Engineer, Investigator - GenAI
MetaAI SecurityMid
AI Security
$122K–$181K / yr
04Common questions
Frequently asked
What is an AI Security engineer?
An AI Security engineer protects AI systems and the companies that build them: application and product security for LLM-powered features, offensive security and red-teaming against prompt injection and tool misuse, detection and incident response when an agent misbehaves in production. The field differs from AI Safety: safety works on model behavior and alignment, security works on threat models, attack surfaces, and controls. Hiring spans frontier labs, AI-native startups hardening agentic products, and enterprise security teams absorbing AI systems. Strong candidates combine classical security engineering with hands-on understanding of how LLM applications actually fail.
How many AI Security jobs are available?
As of September 2026, AgenticCareers tracks 45 open AI Security positions across 24 companies, updated daily.
What is the average AI Security salary?
The median advertised AI Security salary is $192K–$270K per year, based on 35 listings with disclosed pay.
Are AI Security jobs remote?
29% of the AI Security roles currently tracked on AgenticCareers are remote.
Which companies are hiring AI Security engineers?
The most active employers hiring AI Security engineers right now are Vercel, Harvey, Brex.
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