Member of Technical Staff, Security Engineer
Magic · San Francisco
CHECKED 6H AGO
Frontier labonsite$225k–$550k
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