Security Engineer Application Security
Figure is an AI robotics company developing general-purpose humanoid robots, embodied AI, and data-collection services for home and commercial use.
Funding history
About Figure
Figure develops the Figure 03 humanoid robot and Helix, its vision-language-action AI system, to autonomously perform household and commercial tasks. It also operates Index, a contributor network and app for collecting real-world task data.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will assess applications, embedded systems, backend services, and integrations; build secure-development-lifecycle tooling; and design mitigations for security weaknesses. You will build vulnerability-prevention frameworks, hunt insecure coding patterns, and promote security and user privacy.
Requirements
- Experience with penetration testing, vulnerability research, security assessment, secure coding, security architecture, design, or hardware security
- Strong software engineering skills in C, C++, Rust, Golang, Python, or similar
- Experience securing embedded systems, including secure boot, secure identity, or OTA
- Foundation in web security, mobile security, or cryptography
- 3+ years of application security or related security experience
- Ability to collaborate, prioritize work, and work independently
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Responsibilities
- Conduct security assessments of applications, embedded systems, backend services, and business integrations
- Build tooling for a secure development lifecycle
- Design and implement mitigations for robot and service-stack security weaknesses
- Build frameworks and systems that prevent vulnerability classes
- Hunt vulnerabilities and insecure coding patterns in backend and robot systems
- Champion security and user privacy