Senior Staff Security Engineer
Ripple provides payments, custody and stablecoin solutions that help financial institutions integrate blockchain and digital assets.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
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About Ripple
Ripple helps financial institutions transform global payments by providing blockchain-powered infrastructure for cross-border payments, digital asset custody, and stablecoin solutions. With it, users can enable instant settlements, reduce costs, and access new markets. The company was originally founded as OpenCoin in 2012 and rebranded to Ripple in 2015.
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About the Role
You will lead AI security strategy across the development lifecycle, establish guardrails for LLM and agentic AI adoption, and design controls for autonomous systems. You will assess AI integrations, detect unauthorized AI usage, translate emerging threats into mitigations, and contribute to external security standards and research.
Requirements
- 10+ years of Security Engineering experience
- Hands-on exposure to AI or ML security
- Knowledge of prompt injection jailbreaks data poisoning model extraction RAG manipulation and agentic risks
- Experience securing agentic AI systems with sandboxing permission scoping human-in-the-loop design or runtime monitoring
- Experience with AWS GCP or Azure
- Experience with CI/CD container Kubernetes IAM and API security
- Threat modeling experience with STRIDE MITRE ATLAS or OWASP LLM Top 10
- Experience in FinTech crypto or regulated environments is a plus
- Ability to influence technical direction across Engineering Product and Security
- Comfort building solutions in ambiguous environments
Responsibilities
- Drive the AI Security technical strategy and roadmap
- Design and implement controls for LLM integrated and agentic AI systems
- Establish security guardrails provenance standards review requirements and audit trails
- Lead security reviews and risk assessments for production AI integrations
- Build and scale Shadow AI detection capabilities
- Translate agentic AI risks into concrete mitigations
- Contribute to industry frameworks regulatory discussions and security research
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- Bonuses and equity
- Physical and mental healthcare coverage
- Retirement benefits
- Family forming and family support benefits
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Wellness reimbursement
- Generous vacation policy
- Parental leave
- Family planning benefits
- Catered lunches
- Stocked kitchens with snacks and beverages
