# Staff Application Security Engineer (R5949) at Shield AI

- Company: Shield AI
- What the company does: Autonomy for the world. Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://shield.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $143K to $214K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-23
- Apply by: 2026-11-07
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/shieldai/57461bb3-9853-43d3-b2aa-f4b9e637fd41
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/shield-ai-staff-application-security-engineer-r5949/

## About the role

* Establish, maintain, and continuously improve company-wide secure SDLC policies, standards, control objectives, procedures, and supporting evidence requirements. * Translate security policy into clear, achievable requirements for development, product, and platform teams without creating unnecessary delivery friction.

## What they're looking for

- * 7+ years of experience in application security, product security, DevSecOps, secure software engineering, cybersecurity engineering, or a closely related field
- * Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, or maturing a secure SDLC or application-security program across multiple engineering teams
- * Strong working knowledge of secure coding practices, application-security testing, vulnerability management, software delivery, and DevSecOps principles
- * Experience working directly with developers to explain findings, guide remediation, and improve secure-development practices
- * Hands-on experience with SAST, DAST, SCA, dependency vulnerability management, secrets scanning, and related application-security tooling
- * Experience integrating security controls into source-control, CI/CD, build, release, and deployment workflows

Tags: Cybersecurity