Security Engineer

📋 Job Overview

Plaud is building the real-world AI interface for professionals to amplify intelligence, elevate productivity and performance, loved by over 2,500,000 users worldwide since 2023. With a mission to amplify human intelligence, Plaud captures, structures, and compounds the intelligence generated in conversations — so humans can think better, decide faster, and execute with clarity.

🏢 About Plaud Inc.

Plaud Inc. is a Delaware-incorporated, San Francisco-based company pushing the boundary of human–AI intelligence through a hardware–software combination. With full ISO 27001, ISO 27701, SOC 2, GDPR, EN18031, and HIPAA compliances, Plaud is committed to the highest standards of data security and privacy protection. To learn more about Plaud, please visit https://www.plaud.ai and follow along on Instagram, X, Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

🎯 The Role

We’re looking for a Security Engineer to help build our Security Operations, Detection, and Response foundation. You’ll work hands-on across detection engineering, incident response, and our growing Detection-as-Code (DaC) practice — contributing to a function we’re building from the ground up, with support from senior team members as we scale.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Detection Engineering: Author, deploy, and tune detection rules mapped to MITRE ATT&CK. Help implement Detection-as-Code practices and reduce false positives.
• Telemetry & Tooling: Support deployment and management of our core security stack (SIEM, EDR, NTA) and help establish ingestion pipelines across cloud (AWS/GCP), SaaS, and endpoint layers.
• Incident Response: Participate in the IR lifecycle for P1/P2 events, support playbook development, and help drive toward MTTD/MTTR targets. (Incident Commander responsibilities for critical events sit with senior team members initially — you’ll build toward this.)
• AI-Driven SecOps: Use LLMs in daily workflows — alert summarization, draft detection logic, SOAR playbook drafting.
• SOC 2 Type II Support: Contribute to CC7 (Monitoring & Detection) evidence — log retention, alert records — working alongside compliance/GRC rather than owning the audit relationship solo.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on security engineering experience, with exposure to SIEM, IR, SOAR, or detection engineering.
• Comfortable contributing to infrastructure build-out — tool evaluation, configuration, documentation — in a growing function (you won’t be inheriting a mature program, but you won’t be alone either).
• Working knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK and log source integration.
• Exposure to IR workflows and SLA-driven environments (MTTD/MTTR) — ownership grows with experience.
• Comfortable using AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) in daily security workflows

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Familiarity with SOC 2 concepts is a plus, not required at this level.

🎁 Benefits

• Meaningful Ownership: An Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) that gives a real stake in Plaud’s long-term success.
• High-Impact Environment: Work in a fast-moving, product-driven environment where your ideas directly shape the future of AI productivity.
• Cutting-Edge AI Tools for Productivity: Access to best-in-class AI tools, including Gemini, Claude Code, and other frontier AI systems to maximize engineering and execution efficiency.
• Best-in-Class Equipment: Choice of top-spec laptops, high-performance workstation setups, and cutting-edge Plaud devices for all new hires.
• Team & Culture: Annual company offsites, team events, and a culture that values craftsmanship, ownership, and velocity.
• Medical & Insurance Coverage: Comprehensive benefits to protect our employees' financial security, physical health, and longterm growth. Medical insurance and WICA coverage for all full-time employees.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Plaud is and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.