Senior AI Security Engineer

Seattle · Denver · USD 157,675-238,500 / year · 8+ years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 1, 2026

At a glance

Samsara is seeking a Senior AI Security Engineer to serve as the primary AI-focused technologist within the Application Security team. This role involves using frontier AI models to strengthen security posture, red-team cloud environments, and validate firmware vulnerabilities to protect against AI adversaries.

Deliver security assessments of software, code, and firmware against AI-driven or adversarial attacks.
Translate AI security findings into specific fixes for the application security layer.
Adapt software security techniques for hardware and embedded firmware.
Build and pressure-test novel AI-enabled security tooling and workflows.
Drive adoption of successful security tooling across the broader security organization.
Partner cross-functionally with engineering, hardware, and leadership on AI-related security risk.
Conduct VP-level threat modeling sessions.
Define and drive medium- and long-term strategy for safe AI adoption within security operations.
Perform hands-on offensive validation and red-teaming of internal systems using frontier AI/LLM tools.
Champion and role model Samsara’s cultural principles.

8+ years of experience in application security, vulnerability management, threat modeling, offensive security, or a closely related discipline.
Demonstrated application fix impact and influence across a large part of an organization.
Hands-on experience applying AI/LLM tools to real security workflows, including building with APIs, agents, or automation.
Experience conducting technical security assessments across both software and hardware/firmware environments.
Experience creating solutions for secure code using GoLang.
Experience developing AI and agentic solutions using Github.
Experience developing within AWS cloud.

Experience with AI-specific attack techniques such as prompt injection, jailbreaks, and model/agent abuse.
Experience building or validating security controls for agentic AI, RAG systems, or LLM-integrated platforms.
Track record of driving org-wide security strategy.
Experience presenting technical findings to senior or executive stakeholders.
OSCP certification.
GIAC certification.
CISSP certification.
AWS certifications.