Hiring: Staff Security Engineer - AI Company: LinkedIn Location: Sunnyvale, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-02 22:39:25 Employment Type: Hybrid Target Skills & Keywords : MLOps, Make About the job Required Skills: •At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. •This location is hybrid in our Sunnyvale office location. •Lead and execute adoption of security controls across AI/ML infrastructure, including model scanning, model signing and provenance, and ML pipeline security (MLOps/MLSecOps) •Architect and build security guardrails and paved roads for agentic workflows: hardening agent SDKs, tool access and permissioning, input/output validation, execution boundaries, sandboxing, and auditability of agent actions •Build automation and red-team/detection tooling that continuously identifies, reproduces, and mitigates AI-specific vulnerabilities at scale; partner with Detection & Response on prompt/tool-call telemetry and AI-incident playbooks. •Lead threat modeling and adversarial red-teaming of AI systems, and maintain a LinkedIn AI threat taxonomy mapped to industry standards. Partner with security and platform teams to embed the resulting threat models and risk assessments into AI platforms, developer tooling, and production services. Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!