# Senior Staff AI Security Lead at IonQ

- Company: IonQ
- What the company does: IonQ delivers trapped ion quantum computing systems, cloud access, and enterprise solutions for real-world quantum applications. Backed by NEA, SoftBank VF and GV.
- Company website: https://ionq.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote, US
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-10-06
- Apply by: 2026-11-20
- Apply: https://ionq.com/job?gh_jid=6208057004&utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/ionq-senior-staff-ai-security-lead/

## About the role

We are hiring a senior technical leader to build the AI foundation our security organization runs on — and to make sure it actually gets used. This is a dual-mandate role. You will stand up the enterprise AI infrastructure that lets security teams safely build with large language models and agents, and you will lead the adoption effort that turns that infrastructure into measurable gains across detection and response, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, GRC, and security engineering. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years in security engineering, platform engineering, or a closely related technical field, including significant hands-on software development
- Demonstrated experience building and operating production systems with large language models — not prototypes or demos. You have shipped something real, dealt with its failure modes, and iterated on it
- Strong software engineering fundamentals and fluency in Python (or an equivalent language), including API design, distributed systems, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
- Deep understanding of security engineering: identity and access management, secrets management, network boundaries, logging and detection, and secure software development practices
- Working knowledge of AI-specific risk — prompt injection, jailbreaks, data leakage through model outputs, insecure agent tool use, model and dependency supply chain — and practical mitigations for each
- A track record of driving technical change across an organization through influence rather than authority: building consensus, teaching, and shipping things people voluntarily adopt

Tags: Corporate - Security

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