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Security Engineer, Detection & Response

Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco

Frontier labonsite$300k–$350k
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At a glance

Highlights

  • Own pipelines that turn raw telemetry into high-fidelity threat detections.
  • Lead end-to-end incident response from triage to blameless postmortems.
  • Track adversaries targeting frontier AI labs to drive hunts and hardening.

What they offer

  • Health, dental, and vision benefits
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Paid parental leave
  • Relocation support as needed

Ideal candidate

A calm incident responder who thrives under pressure and owns problems end-to-end. You care about protecting frontier AI and turning threat lessons into stronger defenses.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or similar
  • Proficiency in Python or Rust for building data pipelines, detections, and internal tools
  • Track record responding to real security incidents, leading investigations under pressure
  • Hands-on experience building and operating security data pipelines at scale
  • Experience producing and consuming threat intelligence and mapping to MITRE ATT&CK
  • Strong understanding of cloud, Kubernetes, and identity provider telemetry
  • Familiarity with host and network forensics, including endpoint telemetry and log analysis
  • Clear communication for incident reports and postmortems for technical and non-technical audiences
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Lab profile

About Thinking Machines Lab

Builds frontier AI that extends human will and judgment through customizable models and interfaces.

What they build

  • Inkling frontier models
  • Tinker model customization
  • Human-AI communication interfaces

Known for

  • Frontier model training
  • Post-training and reinforcement learning
  • Evaluation infrastructure
  • GPU supercomputing and reliability
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