Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! As a Senior Security Engineer you will: Serve as trusted advisor to team’s leadership and partner teams by clearly articulating business risks associated with security issues Lead security operation functions – including vulnerability management, SAST, DAST, detection engineering, and incident response – in CI/CD and cloud-native production environments Integrate security into our applications throughout the software development lifecycle Collaborate with product and development teams, driving the success of larger projects to ensure that software is built and deployed securely without compromising agility and speed Driving and supporting bug bounty program, application security reviews and threat modeling, including code review and dynamic testing Assess and integrate security tools to automate and scale security processes, i.e: evaluate open-source vs vendor solutions Gather and analyze security metrics to address security issues with cross-team dependencies Be a problem solver who is empathetic to developer concerns and will employ constructive and flexible approach to building innovative solutions You may be a good fit if: 5
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From C$154K/yr
Ready to do the most impactful work of your career? At Coinbase , we are uncompromising on our mission to increase economic freedom. The bar is high, the environment is intense, and we like it that way. This isn't a place for complacency, it’s a place to be pushed past your perceived limits. If you're ready to build the future of finance alongside people who refuse to settle for "good enough," you belong here. Coinbase is a remote-first, but not remote-only company. Expect to get together quarterly for intense in-person working sessions called “surges.” learn more about working at Coinbase . As an Offensive Security Engineer on the Application Security team within Security, you'll pioneer how Coinbase uses frontier AI models to scale vulnerability discovery, red team AI systems, and automate security workflows. This role bridges traditional penetration testing with next-generation AI-augmented offensive security, directly accelerating our ability to protect products and customers. You'll own the development of AI-driven security tooling and collaborate across Vulnerability Management, Offensive Security, and Incident Response to fundamentally shift how we operate. What you'll do: Build, deploy, and maintain custom security scanners that leverage frontier models to detect vulnerabilities at scale across Coinbase's product surface. Lead red teaming efforts against internal AI systems, including jailbreak testing, prompt injection analysis, and tool abuse simulation. Develop AI-driven automation for vulnerability triage, validation, and remediation workflows to accelerate the bug bounty and vulnerability response pipelines. Partner with engineering teams to prioritize, remediate, and verify fixes for critical vulnerabilities discovered through AI-augmented and manual testing. Mentor junior security engineers on integrating AI into offensive security workflows to scale team capabilities. Required Skills and Experience: 3+ years of experience in application s
A World-Changing Company Palantir builds the world’s leading software for data-driven decisions and operations. By bringing the right data to the people who need it, our platforms empower our partners to develop lifesaving drugs, forecast supply chain disruptions, locate missing children, and more. The Role As a Senior Identity Security Engineer on Palantir's Identity Security team, you will own the security posture of the identity infrastructure that Palantirians, customers, and services rely on every day. The Identity Security team is responsible for all identity types at Palantir - workforce, customer, workload, and agentic - giving you the rare ability to architect, threat model, and drive security outcomes across the full identity surface. You will help shape the technical direction for identity security at Palantir, reduce standing access, lead identity threat modeling, and contribute to the next generation of identity primitives including agent identity, JIT-native governance, and unified policy enforcement across workforce and customer IAM. As part of Palantir's best-in-class Information Security organization, you will research, architect, and scale solutions that help Palantir stay ahead of a dynamic identity threat landscape.
Join us in building the future of finance. Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading. About the team + role We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards. The Security Operations (SecOps) team protects Robinhood and its customers by detecting, investigating, and responding to security threats across our production systems, endpoints, and cloud environments. We combine detection engineering, incident response, and threat intelligence to identify emerging risks, strengthen our defenses, and reduce the impact of attacks before they reach our customers. As we continue to evolve our security platform, we're embracing AI and automation to help our teams move faster, uncover threats more effectively, and scale our defenses against increasingly sophisticated adversaries. As the Manager of Response, Automation, Intelligence and Detection Engineering (RAID) within SecOps, you will lead teams across North America, shaping the strategy, execution, and long term evolution of our defensive security capabilities. You'll be responsible for building high performing teams, maturing our detection and incident response programs, and ensuring we stay ahead of an increasingly sophisticated threat landscape. Working closely with Security, Engineering, Infrastructure, and Trust & Safety, you'll translate emerging threats into scalable defenses wh
Join us in building the future of finance. Our mission is to democratize finance for all. An estimated $124 trillion of assets will be inherited by younger generations in the next two decades. The largest transfer of wealth in human history. If you’re ready to be at the epicenter of this historic cultural and financial shift, keep reading. About the team + role We are building an elite team, applying frontier technologies to the world’s biggest financial problems. We’re looking for bold thinkers. Sharp problem-solvers. Builders who are wired to make an impact. Robinhood isn’t a place for complacency, it’s where ambitious people do the best work of their careers. We’re a high-performing, fast-moving team with ethics at the center of everything we do. Expectations are high, and so are the rewards. The Robinhood Wallet team’s mission is to democratize access to financial services worldwide by leveraging DeFi protocols and Robinhood Chain! We build secure, intuitive, and decentralized products that enable our users to custody and manage their digital assets. Our team works at the intersection of traditional finance and web3, driving progress in cryptocurrency and blockchain applications. We work closely with product managers, product designers, and security engineers to deliver highly reliable, high-performance systems for customers worldwide. We pride ourselves on a culture of shared learning, high technical standards, and respectful collaboration. As a Senior Software Developer , you’ll build and own the backend services, infrastructure, and data systems that support Robinhood Wallet products. You will develop reliable and secure solutions to deliver a high-quality trading experience for cryptocurrencies and tokenized stocks, including perpetual futures, to customers worldwide. In this role, you will take lead responsibility for designing scalable architectures and maintaining high-quality codebases. You will collaborate closely with client engineers, security profess
From $252K/yr
About Snorkel At Snorkel, we believe meaningful AI doesn’t start with the model, it starts with the data. We’re on a mission to help enterprises transform expert knowledge into specialized AI at scale. The AI landscape has gone through incredible changes since 2015, when Snorkel started as a research project in the Stanford AI Lab, to the generative AI breakthroughs of today. But one thing has remained constant: the data you use to build AI is the key to achieving differentiation, high performance, and production-ready systems. We work with some of the world’s largest organizations to empower scientists, engineers, financial experts, product creators, journalists, and more to build custom AI with their data faster than ever before. Excited to help us redefine how AI is built? Apply to be the newest Snorkeler! About Snorkel Snorkel AI is the frontier AI data lab, helping teams build the data and environments behind high-performing frontier and agentic AI. We combine technology with research-driven AI data development to create datasets, benchmarks, evals, and custom solutions for real-world AI systems. Founded out of the Stanford AI Lab in 2019, Snorkel works with leading AI labs and enterprises to move from better data to better outcomes. Excited to help us redefine how AI is built? Apply to be the newest Snorkeler! About The Role Snorkel is hiring a Head of Security to build and lead our security function end-to-end — infrastructure security, application security, and governance, risk & compliance (GRC). You'll own the security function end-to-end — strategy, team, and execution — and operate as the primary security voice with customers, auditors, and the exec team. You'll report to the CTO. This is a builder's role: you'll take security from its current state to a mature, right-sized function as Snorkel scales, hiring and developing the team as needs grow. Key Responsibilities Security Leadership & Team Building Define Snorkel's overall security strategy,
Who are we? Cohere is the leading security-first enterprise AI company. We build cutting-edge foundation AI models and end-to-end products that are designed to solve real-world business problems. We’re training and deploying frontier models for enterprises who are building AI systems. We believe that our work is instrumental to the widespread adoption of AI and we are looking for folks that want to be part of that. We obsess over what we build. Each one of us is responsible for contributing to increasing the capabilities of our models and the value they drive for our customers. Cohere is a team of researchers, engineers, designers, and more, who are all passionate about their craft. We are a global technology company headquartered in Toronto with key offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Montreal, Paris, Berlin and Seoul. Join us! The Opportunity Cohere seeks a Chief Information Security Officer who can help shape Cohere’s security strategy & the broader conversation around securing AI at scale. You know how to build trust across organizations and communicate trade-offs clearly in environments where speed, innovation, and security must coexist. You will build the playbook and lead the evolution of Cohere’s global security program across corporate systems, cloud infrastructure, AI development, and enterprise operations. As a visible leader for Cohere’s security vision internally and externally you will navigate risk, represent Cohere in industry discussions, and reinforcing our commitment to building AI responsibly. In this role you will: Define and Scale Cohere’s Security Strategy: Define and execute Cohere’s overarching information security strategy in alignment with business priorities and long-term company growth. Build a Modern Risk, Governance & Compliance Program: Lead Cohere in identifying, assessing, and mitigating security risk across all business functions. Secure AI Systems and Technical Infrastructure: Lead the security architecture st
From C$146K/yr
Secure Every Identity, from AI to Human Identity is the key to unlocking the potential of AI. Okta secures AI by building the trusted, neutral infrastructure that enables organizations to safely embrace this new era. This work requires a relentless drive to solve complex challenges with real-world stakes. We are looking for builders and owners who operate with speed and urgency and execute with excellence. This is an opportunity to do career-defining work. We're all in on this mission. If you are too, let's talk. The Engineering Opportunity Reporting to the Director of Quality & Performance, this role as Engineering Manager of Performance & Resilience will drive performance and resiliency improvements for the Auth0 product at Okta. Here you'll be working with some of the most advanced technology in the space, helping to streamline and secure billions of access requests a year. In this role, you will work closely with architects, platform team members, and product engineers to build the testing infrastructure that keeps Auth0 performant at scale — including the frameworks, tooling, and realistic datasets that make that testing meaningful. The ideal candidate is passionate about software quality and architecture, a self-starter, intellectually curious, and brings deep experience with performance testing, load testing frameworks, dataset generation, performance analysis, monitoring tooling, and chaos engineering. What you’ll be doing Collaborate with architects, tech lead, product owners, security and operations engineers to implement best practices related to performance and resiliency Communicate and organize cross-team projects with high business
Lead Systems Engineer Company: The Boeing Company Boeing Defense, Space & Security’s Experimental Systems Group (ESG) is hiring Lead Systems Engineer to join our team at Seal Beach or El Segundo, CA. We are seeking a Lead Systems Engineer with proven expertise in requirements development and management, verification and validation (V&V), system architecture, specifications, and Interface Control Documents (ICDs). The ideal candidate will excel at translating stakeholder needs into clear, well-formed requirements, developing and maintaining comprehensive system-level architectures, authoring and managing technical specifications and ICDs, and planning and executing verification activities across all system elements to ensure successful project outcomes. Position Responsibilities: Elicit, analyze, decompose, and allocate system and subsystem requirements from stakeholder needs and higher-level system specifications Create, edit, and maintain well-structured, testable requirements using a requirements management tool Develop and maintain system architecture descriptions (functional, logical, physical) and traceability from requirements to architecture and verification Author and maintain specifications and Interface Control Documents (ICDs) that define interfaces between systems and subsystems; manage ICD baselines and change control Develop verification plans, procedures, and test cases aligned to requirements; coordinate and perform verification activities (analysis, inspection, demonstration, test) and document results Support integration activities and resolve interface mismatches and discrepancies between subsystems through engineering change proposals or interface updates Maintain
$190K – $270K/yr
Who We Are HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates. We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless. We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset. By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work. Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work. About The Role The AI team is building cutting-edge solutions that bring the power of AI directly to edge devices while seamlessly integrating with cloud infrastructure. We are looking for a Lead Software Engineer to design and develop high-performance, scalable services to support AI workloads across edge and cloud environments. What You Might Do Design, build, and maintain services that power AI-driven applications, ensuring scalability and performance. Develop APIs and microservices that facilitate seamless integration between cloud-based AI models and edge devices. Optimize data pipelines and storage solutions for real-time AI inference and processing. Implement security and privacy best practices for distributed AI systems. Work closely with AI researchers, infrastructure engineers, and frontend developers to deliver end-to-end AI-driven solutions. Build and optimize an agent orchestration runtime that enables tool use, memory management, and multi-step reasoning across LLMs, APIs, and edge-connected systems. Develop robust logging, monitoring, and alerting systems to ensure system reliability.
$216K – $288K/yr
Who We Are HP IQ is HP’s new AI innovation lab. Combining startup agility with HP’s global scale, we’re building intelligent technologies that redefine how the world works, creates, and collaborates. We’re assembling a diverse, world-class team—engineers, designers, researchers, and product minds—focused on creating an intelligent ecosystem across HP’s portfolio. Together, we’re developing intuitive, adaptive solutions that spark creativity, boost productivity, and make collaboration seamless. We create breakthrough solutions that make complex tasks feel effortless, teamwork more natural, and ideas more impactful—always with a human-centric mindset. By embedding AI advancements into every HP product and service, we’re expanding what’s possible for individuals, organisations, and the future of work. Join us as we reinvent work, so people everywhere can do their best work. About the Role As a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Device Security, you will play a key role in helping HP IQ lead the industry in advancing the security of AI devices, and empowering business and users with control of their privacy and personal data in the quickly evolving AI-driven world. Privacy and security are table stakes at HP IQ, and absolutely integral to our success as a dynamic company with a deep commitment to product. You will own projects through their entire life cycle, building secure systems for our innovative devices by threat modeling, designing secure architectures, and implementing them. This role focuses on designing and implementing solutions across the entire software stack of embedded systems, PCs, and server class workstations. This includes the way they interface with the outside world, in a way that provides joyful user experiences without compromising privacy & security. The technology that you will create will maintain and strengthen the trust that HP IQ promises to our customers. What You Might Do Lead the design and implementation of embedded device secu
About Us Twitch is the world’s biggest live streaming service, with global communities built around gaming, entertainment, music, sports, cooking, and more. It is where thousands of communities come together for whatever, every day. We’re about community, inside and out. You’ll find coworkers who are eager to team up, collaborate, and smash (or elegantly solve) problems together. We’re on a quest to empower live communities, so if this sounds good to you, see what we’re up to on LinkedIn and X , and discover the projects we’re solving on our Blog . Be sure to explore our Interviewing Guide to learn how to ace our interview process. About the Role Twitch Security Platform builds and operates the technology at the intersection of security, privacy, software engineering, and data engineering. As a Senior Engineering Manager, Security Platform, you will guide a diverse group of software engineers to build critical tools and automation solutions used across Twitch. You will report to the Director of Security, Identity, and Privacy Platforms. You will manage engineers responsible for operating our security data platform handling billions of weekly events, a multi-petabyte data lake, and numerous analysis tools that provide critical data across the organization to support important security programs. You will also lead engineers responsible for writing software to accomplish security at scale through automation, libraries, and services. With this team, you will lead the full software development lifecycle from product discovery, roadmap prioritization, and execution. Programs you support will include Fraud, Service-to-Service Auth, Detection and Incident Response, Vulnerability Management, Engineering Intelligence, and Privacy. You are experienced in software and data engineering, you bring awareness of the industry's cutting edge, and you're passionate about security. If this sounds accurate, come join us! You can work from San Francisc
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