# Member of Technical Staff, Security Engineering at Inception Labs

- Company: Inception Labs
- What the company does: 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.
- Company website: https://www.inceptionlabs.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Mateo, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $350K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-05-22
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://jobs.gem.com/inception/am9icG9zdDrOT4cf3ftZEDrqAbPzyFm5
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/inception-labs-member-of-technical-staff-security-engineering/

## 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