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Member of Technical Staff, Security Engineer

Magic · San Francisco

CHECKED 6H AGO

Frontier labonsite$225k–$550k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build security tooling protecting models, systems and engineering org.
  • Design secure sandboxing and isolation for untrusted code and agents.
  • Build guardrails against prompt injection, tool abuse and exploit chaining.

What they offer

  • Equity is a significant part of total compensation, in addition to salary
  • 401(k) plan with 6% salary matching
  • 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

Ideal candidate

High-integrity, hands-on builder who thrives in small fast-paced teams and cares deeply about safe AGI, making security the easy path without slowing researchers down.

Requirements

  • Software engineering skills with experience building production systems in Rust, Go, Python, C++, Kotlin, TypeScript, or similar languages
  • A very good understanding of modern MITRE att&ck techniques
  • Actively engaged in the role of LLMs in securing and attacking software systems
  • On-call readiness 24/7, assisted by our team
  • Experience securing distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or large-scale production environments
  • Ability to develop high-complexity cloud Linux-based exploits
  • Deep understanding of UNIX or other operating systems, networking, authentication, authorization, and modern security architecture
  • Experience building automation and tooling to secure fast paced organizations
  • Track record of exceptional personal integrity, accountability and trustworthiness in high autonomy environments
visa sponsorship
Visa sponsorship available

Lab profile

About Magic

Building safe AGI that automates research and code generation to accelerate progress.

Known for

  • Frontier-scale pre-training
  • Domain-specific RL
  • Ultra-long context
  • Inference-time compute
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