- New York, New York, United States
- On-site
- $147K–$210K per year
- 2+ years
Security Engineer on DeepMind Agentic Detection and Response in New York, responsible for operational and engineering tasks in AI-powered detection engineering and security operations.
Compensation
US: $147000 - $210000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits
Responsibilities
- Reconstruct multi-step Chain-of-Thought (CoT) and tool-call trajectories to determine if anomalies are benign specification gaming or sandbox escapes.
- Coordinate live containment and blast-radius scoping between DeepMind teams and PSS Detection and Response.
- Build new AI agent skills, detection rubrics, and automated forensic pipelines using Python and SQL.
- Investigate high-ambiguity security events and hunt for novel agentic behaviors across frontier models.
- Develop detections and agentic security tooling to keep pace with rapidly evolving frontier models.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
- Nice to have: 5 years of experience in security engineering, detection engineering, incident response, or threat hunting
- Nice to have: investigating security events across Linux, containerized or sandboxed environments, cloud infrastructure, or corporate endpoints
- Nice to have: building or tuning behavioral detections, LLM-based evaluators, or multi-agent workflows
- Nice to have: operating in an on-call capacity, managing security escalations, and working with cross-functional teams