Senior Infrastructure Security Engineer

fal is an active generative-media AI platform for developers, providing optimized model APIs, serverless deployment, and GPU compute.

Series D12 current maintainers9 active leads5 new active leads8 lead step-downs5 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
About fal

Founded in 2021 by Burkay Gur and Gorkem Yurtseven, fal provides infrastructure for production generative-media applications, including image, video, audio, 3D, and multimodal models.

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About the Role

You'll own security below the application layer: the Linux kernel, hypervisors and sandboxes, GPU drivers and firmware, and the hosts that run them. You'll build threat models for multi-tenant GPU hosts, harden the stack, assess and research vulnerabilities, and help shape the host and isolation security roadmap while using AI tools in your daily work.

Requirements

  • AI fluency: daily use of LLMs, agents, and AI coding tools
  • 5+ years in systems or security engineering with deep work in Linux kernel, hypervisors, or device drivers
  • Fluent in kernel C; comfortable in Rust, Go, or Python
  • Strong grasp of virtualization internals: KVM, VFIO, IOMMU/DMA protection
  • Has shipped hardening in production at fleet scale
  • Has found, triaged, or fixed real vulnerabilities in low-level code
  • Communicates risk clearly to different audiences

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain the threat model for running code on shared GPU hosts
  • Design and verify GPU memory and device-state scrubbing between tenants
  • Roll out hardware-backed isolation including confidential computing and attestation
  • Harden kernel builds and host images
  • Reduce attack surface in GPU drivers, CUDA runtimes, NVLink/NVSwitch fabrics, BMC, and firmware
  • Assess and triage vulnerabilities in the kernel, hypervisors, GPU drivers, and firmware
  • Track vendor bulletins and run kernel and driver patching
  • Conduct vulnerability research on dependent components
  • Contribute to the host and isolation security roadmap and evaluate tooling
  • Partner with Detection & Response and act as escalation point for host, kernel, and driver incidents
  • Review designs from Infra, Platform, and ML teams
  • Work with GPU vendors, cloud providers, and upstream maintainers on disclosure and fixes

Benefits

  • Equity
  • Visa sponsorship and relocation help to San Francisco
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)
  • Regular team events and offsites
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