# Member of Technical Staff - Protocol & Security Engineer at Vinci

- Company: Vinci
- What the company does: Run full-resolution simulations in minutes. Vinci’s foundation model for physics unites AI acceleration with verified solvers for as-built accuracy. Backed by Khosla.
- Company website: https://www.getvinci.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: Palo Alto HQ
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $190K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-20
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/vinci/e45ea3c1-18b7-48b4-98eb-7fd707af2a49
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/vinci-member-of-technical-staff-protocol-and-security-engineer/

## About the role

Simulating complex physical systems increasingly means coordinating computation across multiple systems. We are hiring the engineer who will design and own the protocol that makes that coordination possible: the wire format, the identity model, and the trust model.

## What they're looking for

- Experience designing and shipping network protocols or service-to-service APIs that outlived their first version, with concrete opinions on schema evolution and backward compatibility
- Depth in applied transport and authentication security: TLS and mTLS in practice, certificate and key handling, service identity, credential design
- Experience with authorization models that had to evolve as requirements grew
- Comfort reasoning about what a system reveals, not only what it permits
- Clear written communication: much of this role's output is documentation that other engineers and customers rely on

Tags: Engineering