# Founding Security Engineer at Schemata

- Company: Schemata
- What the company does: Schemata is a spatial intelligence company that is building the world's AI interface. Immersive, AI-native training built for the speed and scale of modern operations. Backed by a16z speedrun.
- Company website: https://schemata.com
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-08-21
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/schemata/09161333-cb15-490b-9102-4209da9a207a
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/schemata-founding-security-engineer/

## About the role

Own the security architecture: define and implement how identity, authorization, tenancy isolation, encryption and audit logging work across our platform, and review designs before they become expensive to change Red team our AI systems: probe the LLM and spatial reasoning surfaces the way an adversary would through prompt injection, jailbreaks, tool-use and agent abuse, retrieval and training data poisoning, model extraction, and the failure modes specific to grounding models in customer documents and 3D scenes..

## What they're looking for

- Strong experience in security engineering, application security or cloud security with hands-on implementation ownership, not purely policy or GRC
- Deep AWS security expertise: IAM design, VPC and network controls, KMS, GuardDuty/Security Hub, and least-privilege at scale
- Strong applied knowledge of application security: authN/authZ design, common vulnerability classes, secure code review, threat modeling
- Ability to write real code (Python) to automate controls, evidence collection and tooling
- Working knowledge of at least one major compliance framework (NIST 800-53/RMF, FedRAMP, SOC 2, or ISO 27001) and the practical work of evidencing controls
- Container and Kubernetes security experience: image hardening, runtime policy, supply chain integrity

Tags: Engineering