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Tinfoil (YC P25) is hiring an applied AI security engineer in San Francisco

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In short

The hired engineer will translate customer threat models into functional architectures and build custom pilots alongside evaluation suites. Daily duties also include leading comprehensive security reviews and resolving technical roadblocks directly with partner teams. The position requires candidates to possess at least two years of relevant engineering or technical product experience, with a work schedule mandating at least three days per week in the San Francisco office.

Key points

  • The role serves as an advisory bridge to help clients deploy AI under strict privacy cons…: The role serves as an advisory bridge to help clients deploy AI under strict privacy constraints.
  • Applicants need proficiency in Python or TypeScript, LLM development experience, and infr…: Applicants need proficiency in Python or TypeScript, LLM development experience, and infrastructure security fundamentals.
  • The position is based in San Francisco with a three-day in-office requirement and occasio…: The position is based in San Francisco with a three-day in-office requirement and occasional travel.

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About Tinfoil

Tinfoil: https://tinfoil.sh/ is a security research lab building an AI cloud for private, verifiable computation. Our customers include DuckDuckGo, Mozilla, financial institutions, AI labs and startups. Frontier labs, Google Deepmind, Trail of Bits, Redhat and Canonical, have also used us for research.

As attacks on infrastructure grow more powerful, our goal is to bring state-of-the-art defenses to individuals and organizations as quickly as possible, without making them trade away performance or ease of use. Our mission[1] is to create a private garden for thought, where people keep control of their own agency, and we keep evolving our research[2] to stay ahead of rapidly changing threat models.

About this role

As an Applied AI Security Engineer, you’ll help companies deploy AI on Tinfoil when security or privacy is a hard requirement. Our customers include enterprises in regulated industries, AI labs and startups that need secure compute, and privacy-first product companies. You’ll partner with Sales to guide strategic customers from technical discovery through deployment. Then you’ll bring what you learn back to Product, Engineering, and Research so that what we…

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