Security Engineer, Detection & Response
Artificial-intelligence research and product company building customizable AI systems, including the Tinker training API and Inkling open-weight models.
Funding history
About Thinking Machines Lab
Thinking Machines Lab develops AI products that let researchers and developers fine-tune and use models, while also releasing open-weight multimodal models.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead security incident response from triage through recovery and postmortems. You will build and operate telemetry pipelines, create and maintain detections, conduct threat hunting, run threat intelligence activities, automate response workflows, and develop incident-response plans and exercises. You will collaborate on detecting AI-specific threats and participate in the security incident on-call rotation.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in computer science, engineering, or a similar field
- Proficiency in Python or Rust
- Experience responding to production security incidents and leading investigations
- Experience building and operating security data pipelines at scale
- Experience with threat intelligence, adversary TTPs, MITRE ATT&CK, detections, and hunts
- Understanding of cloud environments, Kubernetes, identity provider telemetry, and attacker movement
- Familiarity with host and network forensics
- Ability to own projects end to end
- Clear technical and non-technical communication
Responsibilities
- Lead incident response through triage, scoping, containment, eradication, recovery, and postmortems
- Design, build, and operate security data pipelines and detection tooling
- Author, deploy, and maintain detections across SIEM, endpoint, cloud, and security tooling
- Track relevant threat actors and campaigns and turn intelligence into hunts, detections, and hardening recommendations
- Hunt proactively for threats and build automation and response tooling
- Detect AI-specific threats in production
- Develop and exercise incident response plans, on-call processes, and tabletop exercises
- Participate in an on-call pager rotation for security incidents
Benefits
- Health benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid parental leave
- Relocation support
