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Security Engineer - Member of Technical Staff

Simile · San Francisco · On-site

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About the role

We are looking for a Security Engineer who thrives on securing novel AI products. You will own the security roadmap, ensuring our platform is resilient, compliant, and stays ahead of an ever-evolving threat landscape. Customer Security & Trust: Partner with our largest enterprise customers to navigate the procurement process , leading technical discussions regarding security agreements, providing comprehensive posture overviews, and ensuring alignment on rigorous data handling requirements

What they're looking for

  • Experience: 5+ years of experience in application or infrastructure security within a high-growth environment
  • Security Polyglot: Deep expertise in securing AWS environments, experience with GCP or Azure is a major plus
  • Offensive Mindset: Ability to think like an attacker to anticipate risks, paired with a collaborative spirit to help engineers remediate them
  • Operational Mindset: Experience with modern observability and a "you build it, you run it" mentality toward security infrastructure
  • Agentic Security Tooling: Experience integrating agentic AI workflows into the developer lifecycle to provide real-time security feedback, enabling engineers to be "secure-by-design" as code is written rather than after the fact
More about this role

Simile is The Simulation Company. We simulate human behavior to keep people at the center of the decisions that shape the world. With AI, anyone can create a product, a campaign, a policy, or a script — the bottleneck has moved upstream. The hard question is no longer whether you can create something, but what to create, for whom, and how to bring it to life. Those are fundamentally human decisions, and they shouldn't be left to chance or handed off to an algorithm. We're building the infrastructure to understand human behavior at scale and to represent humans in an increasingly agentic world. Our mission is to simulate all eight billion people on earth.

We launched five months ago. Since then we've grown revenue 5x, built a new foundation model for human behavior that has run tens of millions of simulations for F100 enterprises, trained a first-of-its-kind confidence model that predicts the accuracy of every simulation, and released the first product that lets organizations verifiably predict the future. The world's leading companies use Simile to make business-critical decisions — from consumer leaders like CVS Health and Wealthfront to professional services organizations like...

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