Principal Engineer, AI Security
Lila Sciences · Cambridge, MA USA · One Charles Park, Cambridge, MA
CHECKED 15H AGO
Bio & Science AIonsiteprincipal$252k–$374k
At a glance
Highlights
- Own security engineering for AI systems from pipelines to agent runtimes.
- Turn the AI security roadmap into delivered controls with measurable outcomes.
- Keep AI infrastructure continuously compliant and reduce open risk.
What they offer
- Bonus potential and generous early-stage equity
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Employer-paid life and disability insurance
- Flexible time off with generous company holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Educational assistance program
- Commuter benefits and company-subsidized lunch
Ideal candidate
Senior hands-on security engineer who thrives in ambiguous research environments and partners across teams to drive remediation to closure. You care about building security into AI systems from design, not after the fact.
Requirements
- Strong background in security engineering, cloud security, or DevSecOps securing production infrastructure
- Working knowledge of AI/ML systems and ML lifecycle and AI-specific risks
- Experience with software supply chain security and dependency and vulnerability management
- Experience implementing data security controls in cloud environments
- Proven ability to partner across engineering teams and drive remediation to closure
- Comfort operating with ambiguity in a fast-moving research environment
Lab profile
About Lila Sciences
Building an autonomous science platform where AI, automation, and biology co-evolve for medicine and materials.
What they build
- Autonomous Science Platform
- AI-designed biologics validated in wet-lab
- Electro-optic materials and photonic devices
Known for
- Large-scale automated data generation
- High-throughput protein purification and analytics
- Protein design and BioML modeling
- Robotic orchestration and lab simulation