[Hiring] Staff Information Security Engineer @Rithum LinkedIn Board

Role Description

As a Staff AI-First Information Security Engineer, you own the intersection of AI adoption and information security:

• Designing guardrails for AI-powered products.
• Building automated security tooling.
• Designing security controls and monitoring for an AI-First workforce.
• Helping every team at Rithum move fast without creating unseen risks.

This role involves balancing research with fast-paced delivery, collaborating closely with Platform Engineering, IT, Security Champions, and external auditors.

Responsibilities

• Act as the bridge between architectural intent and operational reality.
• Mediating conflicts between security requirements and feasible implementation.
• Proposing compensating controls where gaps exist.
• Helping register, track, and remediate residual risks.
• Implementing preventive, default-on security controls across cloud and enterprise environments.
• Codifying security controls as policy- and infrastructure-as-code.
• Enforcing identity and access controls to an agreed standard.
• Assisting in maintaining the InfoSec risk register.
• Tracking emerging threats and translating them into actionable guidance.
• Supporting third-party and vendor risk assessments.
• Automating repetitive security workflows.
• Integrating security tooling with LLM layers.
• Defining and enforcing security requirements for AI-powered features.
• Conducting threat modelling on agentic and LLM-based systems.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of security engineering experience with demonstrated AI/ML security depth.
• Experience using AI tools and LLM frameworks and APIs.
• Hands-on identity and access expertise across modern enterprise and cloud identity stacks.
• Infrastructure and policy-as-code proficiency and scripting language experience.
• Cloud security expertise, including multi-account governance and preventive guardrails.
• Application security knowledge and practical experience with AI agents.
• Working knowledge of SOC 2 and/or ISO 27001 control frameworks.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building or operating AI agents in a production environment.
• Awareness of privacy regulation as it touches AI.
• Red teaming or adversarial ML research backgrounds.
• Experience implementing privileged-access, key-management, or data-protection programs.
• Experience with EDR, CASB, DLP, and security automation tools.
• Cloud Architecture or Security certifications.

Travel Required

• Up to 10%

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision benefits: Affordable health care plans and company HSA contributions, starting on Day 1.
• A 6% 401(k) match.
• Competitive time off package with 20 days of Paid Time Off, 9 Company-Paid holidays, 2 paid floating holidays, 7 paid sick days, 2 Wellness days, and 1 Paid Volunteer Day.
• 12 weeks primary caregiver leave & 4 weeks secondary caregiver leave.
• Accident, critical illness, and hospital indemnity insurance.
• Pet insurance.
• Legal assistance and identity theft insurance plans.
• Life insurance 2x salary.
• Access to the Calm app and the Employee Assistance Program.
• $65/month Remote work stipend for internet.
• Culture and team-building activities.
• Tuition assistance.
• Career development opportunities.
• Charitable contribution match up to $250 per year.