Security Engineer, Detection & Response
Thinking Machines Lab · San Francisco
Frontier labonsite$300k–$350k
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
- visa sponsorship
- We sponsor visas
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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