Member of Technical Staff, Security Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Magic’s mission is to build safe AGI that accelerates humanity’s progress on the world’s most important problems. We believe the most promising path to safe AGI lies in automating research and code generation to improve models and solve alignment more reliably than humans can alone. Our approach combines frontier-scale pre-training, domain-specific RL, ultra-long context, and inference-time compute to achieve this goal.

🏢 About Magic.dev

Magic.dev is a company focused on building safe AGI through automation of research and code generation.

🎯 The Role

As a Security Engineer at Magic, you will build the software, automation, and infrastructure that protect our models, systems, and engineering organization from both traditional and frontier AI cyber threats. You will respond to security threats, help us build good practices around security incident/threat response.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain security tooling and automation used by Magic's engineering teams
• Secure developer infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and production services and make the platform tools easy to use
• Support our sandboxes team with building secure sandboxing and isolation for untrusted code, agent and model execution
• Build guardrails against emerging AI attack vectors, including prompt injection, tool abuse, exploit chaining, and autonomous model behavior
• Protect model weights, research artifacts, datasets, and production infrastructure from unauthorized access, lateral movement, and exfiltration
• Respond to security incidents and live threats

📌 Required Qualifications

• Software engineering skills with experience building production systems in Rust, Go, Python, C++, Kotlin, TypeScript, or similar languages
• A very good understanding of modern MITRE att&ck techniques
• Actively engaged in the role of LLMs in securing and attacking software systems
• On-call readiness 24/7, assisted by our team
• Experience securing distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or large-scale production environments
• Ability to develop high-complexity cloud Linux-based exploits
• Deep understanding of UNIX or other operating systems, networking, authentication, authorization, and modern security architecture
• Experience building automation and tooling to secure fast paced organizations
• Track record of exceptional personal integrity, accountability and trustworthiness in high autonomy environments

🎁 Benefits

Annual salary ranges between $225K - $550K based on experience
Equity is a significant part of total compensation, in addition to salary
401(k) plan with 6% salary matching
Generous health, dental and vision insurance for you and your dependents
Unlimited paid time off
Visa sponsorship and relocation stipend to bring you to SF, if possible
A small, fast-paced, highly focused team

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Visa sponsorship and relocation stipend to bring you to SF, if possible