We are leveraging diffusion technology to develop a new generation of LLMs. Our dLLMs are much faster and more efficient than traditional autoregressive LLMs. Backed by AI Grant and Amplify.
About the role
For a senior/staff-level role, we are looking for someone with 6+ years of experience who has operated as a TL/TLM or staff+ engineer , remains deeply hands-on, and can provide the leadership presence to make delegation and prioritization decisions as Inception grows. You'll be the first/early security leader at a company where security directly affects customer trust, revenue, and product velocity.
What they're looking for
- API / product security. Lead proactive threat protection for a public API product handling enterprise usage, analogous to companies exposing API surfaces like ChatGPT or Claude
- Engineering practices. Establish and promote secure development, code review, release management, vulnerability management, and incident response practices
- You have 6+ years of security engineering experience or equivalent staff-level depth, and have operated as a TL/TLM or staff+ engineer who still ships
- You've built security for enterprise-facing products, APIs, infrastructure, or compliance-heavy environments , and have worked with customers who have procurement, compliance, or customer-trust requirements
- You have hands-on experience with product/API security for customer-facing APIs
- You have driven or owned SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR , or comparable compliance and certification programs
More about this role
Inception creates the world’s fastest, most efficient AI models. Our Mercury model is the world’s fastest reasoning LLM and first commercially available diffusion LLM, delivering 5x greater speed and efficiency than today’s LLMs, with best-in-class quality.
We are the AI researchers and engineers behind such breakthrough AI technologies as diffusion models, flash attention, and DPO.
The Role
We are hiring across seniority levels for a Founding Security Engineer to build the security foundation for a frontier AI platform serving enterprise customers — owning product/API security, enterprise security architecture, compliance readiness, and incident response as the company scales.
For a senior/staff-level role, we are looking for someone with 6+ years of experience who has operated as a TL/TLM or staff+ engineer , remains deeply hands-on, and can provide the leadership presence to make delegation and prioritization decisions as Inception grows. You'll be the first/early security leader at a company where security directly affects customer trust, revenue, and product velocity.
You'll own and drive the systems, processes, and infrastructure that make Inception secure by default: cloud...
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