Staff AI Security Engineer
Job Description
About the Role:
CoreWeave is seeking a Staff AI Security Engineer to define and operationalize security across our AI ecosystem. This role sits at the intersection of AI/ML, cloud infrastructure, and security engineering. You'll build secure-by-default foundations for AI development, agentic workflows, and enterprise AI adoption, balancing velocity with strong security guarantees. You will also partner closely with enterprise security and IT teams to manage AI-adjacent risks across the corporate environment, including shadow AI, data exfiltration through AI tooling, and SaaS security posture for AI-enabled platforms.
What You'll Do:
- Design and implement security controls across AI/ML infrastructure, including model artifact storage, data lineage and integrity, model signing and provenance, and ML pipeline security (MLOps/MLSecOps)
- Develop AI security policies, standards, and threat models covering model development, training pipelines, data ingestion, inference environments, and agentic systems
- Build security guardrails for agentic workflows: tool access and permissioning, input/output validation, execution boundaries, sandboxing, and auditability of agent actions
- Lead secure adoption of AI tools across engineering, security, operations, and enterprise functions. Evaluate AI vendors, copilots, and integrations. Define policies for data sharing, model usage boundaries, and sensitive data handling in prompts and outputs
- Partner with enterprise security and IT on AI-related risks across the corporate environment, including endpoint posture, corporate identity, and SaaS security for AI-enabled platforms
- Conduct threat modeling and adversarial testing of AI systems, covering prompt injection, data poisoning, model extraction, and backdoored models. Build and maintain a CoreWeave-specific AI threat taxonomy
- Drive cross-team technical decisions and influence architecture across platform engineering, security engineering, ML/AI teams, and product/DevEx to embed security into AI platforms and developer tooling
Who You Are:
Minimum Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in security engineering (cloud, application, or infrastructure)
- Experience with AI/ML systems: LLMs, training pipelines, inference systems, or MLOps
- Strong, demonstrable experience building and securing large-scale distributed systems
- Strong coding skills in Go, Python, or similar
- Familiarity with Kubernetes, containerized environments, and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Understanding of AI-specific threats: prompt injection, data leakage, model misuse, supply chain risks in models and datasets
- Track record of driving cross-team technical initiatives and influencing architecture decisions at the org level
Preferred:
- Experience building or securing LLM-based systems, agent frameworks (LangChain, etc.), or AI-powered internal tools
- Background in adversarial ML or red teaming AI systems
- Experience with secure model deployment pipelines or confidential computing / secure enclaves
- Familiarity with identity and access control systems
- Experience in high-performance or GPU-centric environments
Why CoreWeave?
At CoreWeave, we work hard, have fun, and move fast! We’re in an exciting stage of hyper-growth that you will not want to miss out on. We’re not afraid of a little chaos, and we’re constantly learning. Our team cares deeply about how we build our product and how we work together, which is represented through our core values:
- Be Curious at Your Core
- Act Like an Owner
- Empower Employees
- Deliver Best-in-Class Client Experiences
- Achieve More Together
We support and encourage an entrepreneurial outlook and independent thinking. We foster an environment that encourages collaboration and enables the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. As we get set for takeoff, the organization's growth opportunities are constantly expanding. You will be surrounded by some of the best talent in the industry, who will want to learn from you, too. Come join us!
The base salary range for this role is $188,000 to $275,000. The starting salary will be determined based on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and market location. We strive for both market alignment and internal equity when determining compensation. In addition to base salary, our total rewards package includes a discretionary bonus, equity awards, and a comprehensive benefits program (all based on eligibility).
What We Offer
The range we’ve posted represents the typical compensation range for this role. To determine actual compensation, we review the market rate for each candidate which can include a variety of factors. These include qualifications, experience, interview performance, and location.
In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a variety of benefits to support your needs, including:
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance - 100% paid for by CoreWeave
- Company-paid Life Insurance
- Voluntary supplemental life insurance
- Short and long-term disability insurance
- Flexible Spending Account
- Health Savings Account
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Ability to Participate in Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
- Mental Wellness Benefits through Spring Health
- Family-Forming support provided by Carrot
- Paid Parental Leave
- Flexible, full-service childcare support with Kinside
- 401(k) with a generous employer match
- Flexible PTO
- Catered lunch each day in our office and data center locations
- A casual work environment
- A work culture focused on innovative disruption
Our Workplace
While we prioritize a hybrid work environment, remote work may be considered for candidates located more than 30 miles from an office, based on role requirements for specialized skill sets. New hires will be invited to attend onboarding at one of our hubs within their first month. Teams also gather quarterly to support collaboration.
California Consumer Privacy Act - California applicants only
CoreWeave is an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and supportive workplace. All qualified applicants and candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information.
As part of this commitment and consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), CoreWeave will ensure that qualified applicants and candidates with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations for the hiring process, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. If reasonable accommodation is needed, please contact: [email protected].
Export Control Compliance
This position requires access to export controlled information. To conform to U.S. Government export regulations applicable to that information, applicant must either be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency. CoreWeave may, for legitimate business reasons, decline to pursue any export licensing process.