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Senior AI Engineer, Security Infrastructure

AIR · Arlington, Virginia, United States; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States; Remote · Remote

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About AIR

AIR secures your agent fleet and filters every AI add-on before it enters your enterprise. Continuous vetting, governance, and runtime protection for safe AI adoption. Backed by Sequoia.

About the role

Air is the leader in Enterprise Readiness. Our mission is to establish readiness as a real-time condition that is continuously achieved. Today, a dangerous Readiness Gap exists between what the front line needs and what is delivered. Our AI-native platform, Air Enterprise Readiness, aligns development, production, delivery, and sustainment into one coordinated execution system for government agencies and industrial suppliers.

What they're looking for

  • U.S. Citizenship is required
  • 5+ years of experience building production software, backend infrastructure, distributed systems, security systems, or AI/ML infrastructure
  • Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctorate in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Cybersecurity, Data Science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Demonstrated experience in AI red teaming, adversarial machine learning, offensive security, systems security, or related security research
  • Experience evaluating AI systems beyond basic direct prompt injection attacks
  • Strong understanding of how modern LLM and agentic systems operate, including model inference, context management, tool use, retrieval, and multi-step agent execution
More about this role

Air is the leader in Enterprise Readiness. Our mission is to establish readiness as a real-time condition that is continuously achieved. Today, a dangerous Readiness Gap exists between what the front line needs and what is delivered. Our AI-native platform, Air Enterprise Readiness, aligns development, production, delivery, and sustainment into one coordinated execution system for government agencies and industrial suppliers. By revealing true capacity, exposing real constraints, coordinating resources, and executing at the speed of operational demands, the front line gets what it needs to succeed.

We are seeking an experienced Senior AI Engineer specializing in AI security to join our Agentic AI team as we scale our agentic capabilities across all levels of the U.S. government.

Over the past year, we have seen rapid adoption of our AI agent, Ace. As agents gain access to increasingly powerful tools, data, and workflows, securing these systems presents a fundamentally different set of challenges from securing traditional software.

AI security is not a solved problem. This role sits at the intersection of applied AI research, offensive security, and production systems engineering....

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