Security Engineer

CuspAI is an AI-for-science company developing an AI platform for targeted materials discovery.

Series BRecently funded
Cambridge, United Kingdom
About CuspAI

CuspAI combines generative AI, high-fidelity simulation, synthesis planning, and laboratory validation to develop novel materials for applications including semiconductors, energy, water purification, and climate technology.

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Skills

About the Role

You will secure the ML lifecycle, proprietary model weights, research data, LLM interfaces, and cloud infrastructure. You will embed security controls in CI/CD and infrastructure workflows, manage secrets and vulnerabilities, implement IAM controls, lead incident response, and enable secure engineering practices.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of DevSecOps, cloud security, or site reliability engineering experience
  • Experience building and securing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins
  • Infrastructure as Code proficiency with Terraform or Pulumi
  • Experience securing AWS, GCP, or Azure environments
  • Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes security
  • Knowledge of security frameworks and practical implementation

Responsibilities

  • Secure the ML lifecycle against data poisoning and model-weight theft
  • Deploy prompt-injection defenses and runtime firewalls
  • Implement AI Security Posture Management for models, datasets, and endpoints
  • Embed secret scanning, API exposure checks, and software composition analysis in CI/CD
  • Codify cloud security policies with Infrastructure as Code
  • Manage secrets and vulnerability patching for containerized environments
  • Design least-privilege IAM controls
  • Lead incident response and monitor production logs
  • Provide IDE scanning tools and pre-commit hooks
  • Educate engineers on security practices

Benefits

  • Equity
  • 28 days holiday in DE, NL, and UK or 21 days holiday in JP, SG, and US, plus local public holidays
  • 26 weeks paid parental leave for primary caregivers and 12 weeks for secondary caregivers
  • Professional development budget