Lila Sciences - Staff / Principal Security Engineer, AI Safety and Security
Requirements
• Substantial hands-on security experience and deep expertise in at least one relevant discipline, such as security architecture, application or infrastructure security, offensive security, or incident response. You can reason across disciplines and identify when specialist judgment is needed. • Substantial hands-on security experience and deep expertise in at least one relevant discipline • A record of resolving consequential security problems. You have investigated ambiguous risks, challenged designs and followed improvements through to validation, including work involving several teams. • A record of resolving consequential security problems. • Strong technical judgment. You can examine unfamiliar systems, scrutinize code and configurations where relevant, and use technical investigation or testing to distinguish plausible claims from demonstrated protection. • Strong technical judgment. • Curiosity about AI safety and scientific systems. You want to understand how model capabilities and safeguards are evaluated, can learn unfamiliar domains quickly, and reason carefully when evidence is incomplete. • Curiosity about AI safety and scientific systems. • Clear writing and effective collaboration. You can explain a technical argument precisely, work through disagreements with specialists and turn a complex investigation into an actionable recommendation. • Clear writing and effective collaboration. • Securing ML infrastructure, model assets, research environments or AI agents. • Evaluating safeguards, adversarial robustness or defenses against sophisticated threats. • Translating risk assessments into technical requirements, assurance evidence or deployment decisions. • Working in scientific or other environments where digital access can have significant real-world consequences. • We value demonstrated security depth, sound judgment and the ability to learn. A research PhD or experience in every security discipline is not required. • Your early work will help establish how Lila combines safety and security evidence to make concrete decisions about its systems.
Benefits
• We offer competitive base compensation with bonus potential and generous early-stage equity. Your final offer will reflect your background, expertise, and expected impact. • U.S. Benefits. Full-time U.S. employees receive a comprehensive benefits program including medical, dental, and vision coverage; employer-paid life and disability insurance; flexible time off with generous company wide holidays; paid parental leave; an educational assistance program; commuter benefits, including bike share memberships for office based employees; and a company subsidized lunch program. • International Benefits. Full-time employees outside the U.S. receive a comprehensive benefits program tailored to their region. USD salary ranges apply only to U.S.-based positions; international salaries are set to local market. • $192,000 - $306,000 USD • Lila Sciences is building Scientific Superintelligence™ to solve humankind's greatest challenges. We believe science is the most inspiring frontier for AI. Rather than hard-coding expert knowledge into tools, LILA builds systems that can learn for themselves. • LILA combines advanced AI models with proprietary AI Science Factory™ instruments into an operating system for science that executes the entire scientific method autonomously, accelerating discovery at unprecedented speed, scale, and impact across medicine, materials, and energy. Learn more at www.lila.ai. • Guided by our core values of truth, trust, curiosity, grit, and velocity, we move with startup speed while tackling problems of historic importance. If this sounds like an environment you'd love to work in, even if you don't meet every qualification listed above, we encourage you to apply. • We’re All In • Lila Sciences is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. • Information you provide during your application process will be handled in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Policy. • A Note to Agencies • A Note to Agencies • Lila Sciences does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than candidates. The submission of unsolicited resumes by recruitment or staffing agencies to Lila Sciences or its employees is strictly prohibited unless contacted directly by Lila Science’s internal Talent Acquisition team. Any resume submitted by an agency in the absence of a signed agreement will automatically become the property of Lila Sciences, and Lila Sciences will not owe any referral or other fees with respect thereto.
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