# Security Lead, Product and Infrastructure (InfoSec) at River AI

- Company: River AI
- What the company does: Develop frontier language models and agents. Training, reinforcement learning, and inference in one system, on River Cloud or your own GPU cluster. Backed by General Catalyst.
- Company website: https://river.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Palo Alto, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $200K to $420K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-31
- Apply by: 2026-12-15
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/riverai/jobs/4475228009?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/river-ai-security-lead-product-and-infrastructure-infosec/

## About the role

We are seeking a deeply technical, operationally rigorous Security lead to build and lead security from the ground up. As our first security hire, you will define how we protect our research infrastructure, model weights, corporate assets, and customer-facing platform—without slowing the pace of frontier AI development. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 10+ years in security with significant experience with a technology company, AI preferred
- Proven track record as a first or early security executive in a high-velocity, high-stakes environment, comfortable setting strategy while remaining close to tooling, architecture, and incident command
- Deep expertise in two or more of: detection engineering, incident response, digital forensics, infrastructure security, product/application security, operational security, or secure software development
- Direct experience securing cloud-native, large-scale distributed systems, container/VM environments, and high-performance compute clusters
- Demonstrated ability to build and ship security tooling or research projects—whether internal platforms, open-source tools, or commercial security products
- Strong cross-functional presence: you can translate technical risk for executes, partner with research leads on novel threat models, and review code or architecture

Tags: Research Infrastructure

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