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Senior Application Security Engineer, AI and Machine Learning

Lightning AI · San Francisco, California, United States; Seattle, Washington, United States · On-site

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About Lightning AI

From the PyTorch Lightning creators. Own your AI, don. Backed by Index.

About the role

You will work closely with platform engineers, ML engineers, and infrastructure teams to identify risks, design secure architectures, and build security tooling that enables engineers to move quickly and safely. This role is execution focused. You will drive technical implementation, perform deep security reviews, and help build out our application security capabilities alongside the CISO and engineering leadership.

What they're looking for

  • Strong background in application security engineering
  • Experience performing threat modeling and architecture reviews
  • Experience securing APIs and distributed systems
  • Experience working in cloud environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
  • Experience with containers and Kubernetes
  • Strong scripting or programming skills such as Python, Go, or similar
More about this role

Lightning AI is the company behind PyTorch Lightning. Founded in 2019, we build an end-to-end platform for developing, training, and deploying AI systems—designed to take ideas from research to production with less friction.

Through our merger with Voltage Park, a neocloud and AI Factory, Lightning AI combines developer-first software with cost-efficient, large-scale compute. Teams get the tools they need for experimentation, training, and production inference, with security, observability, and control built in.

We serve solo researchers, startups, and large enterprises. Lightning AI operates globally with offices in New York City, San Francisco, Seattle, and London, and is backed by Coatue, Index Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and Firstminute.

The people who thrive here are builders who move fast, communicate openly, take ownership, and continuously improve themselves, their teams, and our company. Here's what that looks like in practice:

  • Move with Urgency: We move quickly, make thoughtful decisions, and keep momentum. We value action over perfection and learn by shipping.
  • Take Ownership: We own outcomes, not just our individual work. We make decisions that move the company...

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