[Hiring] Senior Product Security Engineer @Hyperscience

Role Description

At Hyperscience, we're building a new class of enterprise software that reads and understands the world's documents. As a Senior Product Security Engineer, you will be the cornerstone of our product security efforts, safeguarding the complex, machine-learning-powered platform that our customers trust.

This is a role for a builder and a strategist. You won't just be checking boxes; you'll be embedded within our engineering organization, shaping our security posture from the ground up. You will have the autonomy to design, implement, and automate security controls for a cutting-edge AI product. If you thrive on high-impact work, enjoy deep technical challenges, and want to take ownership of a critical function, this is the opportunity for you. You'll partner directly with developers, review new features before they ship, and become the go-to expert for securing our code and infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Product Security Strategy: Implement and mature a software assurance model that embeds security into the earliest stages of our development lifecycle.
• Security Design Reviews: Analyze new features and product releases, performing threat modeling and providing actionable guidance to engineering teams.
• Vulnerability Management: Triage external security inquiries, perform manual code reviews to identify flaws, and advise developers on effective remediation techniques.
• Automated Defenses: Design and deploy automated controls using open-source tools to detect, alert, and respond to common attacks against our cloud platform.
• Security Knowledge Share: Facilitate internal training and workshops on security best practices, raising awareness and fostering a security-first culture across the organization.

Qualifications

• Programming Proficiency: Demonstrate strong, hands-on coding ability in Python and shell scripting to build security automation and tooling.
• Software Security Experience: Bring 6+ years of Application Security experience, partnering with developers in a SaaS environment to build and scale a software assurance program.
• Offensive Security Skills: Show a practical ability to manually identify and exploit common security flaws in web applications and RESTful APIs.
• Cloud & Container Expertise: Possess hands-on experience deploying and hardening containerized environments using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Systematic Problem-Solving: Apply a structured approach to solving complex technical problems, coupled with strong communication skills and a deep sense of ownership.
• AI Fluency: Utilize modern AI tools and techniques to optimize security workflows, from code analysis to threat detection.

Bonus Qualifications

• ML/AI Product Experience: Have prior experience securing products that are heavily reliant on machine learning or artificial intelligence components.
• Cloud Security Tooling: Demonstrate experience deploying and managing open-source security tools to monitor cloud infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Secure Architecture Design: Show experience designing secure microservice architectures and distributed systems.

Benefits

• Health & Wellness: Company-covered Healthcare Coverage plans for you and your family, including HSA, PPO, Vision, Dental and Mental Health Wellness plans.
• Retirement & Financial: 401(k) through Empower with company match up to 6% of your annual salary.
• Paid Time Off (PTO): Flexible-use PTO, unaccrued and uncapped, subject to manager approval.
• Parental Leave: 12 weeks of paid parental leave, with an additional 4 weeks paid for birthing parents.
• Equity: Opportunity to own Stock Options in the company.