Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Waabi is a technology company developing Physical AI for autonomous transportation, including commercial autonomous trucks and robotaxis. The Applied AI Security Engineer will own AI security controls across the company by designing guardrails, managing AI and MCP integrations, evaluating tools, partnering with users, and testing defenses against emerging threats.
Responsibilities
- Audit how AI tools and MCP integrations are currently used across the company, and map where they touch sensitive systems, data, or credentials for the purpose of defining policy
- Design and implement layered guardrails - enterprise-level system prompts, scoped permissions, sandboxing patterns - that constrain AI behavior before it ever reaches a user's request
- Maintain an inventory of both MCP servers and AI-to-service connections and their data access controls, with a clear model of what each one can access and why
- Partner directly with users across the organization to bake secure-by-default patterns into their AI-assisted workflows so that written policy doesn’t just sit on a shelf
- Evaluate new AI tools, plugins, and integration requests, and figure out the secure way to say yes
- Continuously test and red-team your own guardrails - assume they'll be pushed on, and find the gaps before someone else does
- Document guidance and patterns that a non-security audience can actually follow without needing a security background
Skills
- - Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- - Professional software development experience, with solid fundamentals in how services, APIs, and permissions fit together
- - Hands-on experience using AI coding/productivity tools (Claude, Copilot, Gemini, or similar) in business-critical workflows
- - Working knowledge of core security concepts — least privilege, sandboxing, trust boundaries, threat modeling basics
- - Strong communication skills - you work with engineers as a partner
- - Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol) or similar tool-calling/agent-integration frameworks
- - Exposure to prompt injection, jailbreaking, or other AI/LLM-specific attack techniques
- - Background in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or other safety-critical systems
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity awards.
- Health and Wellness benefits that include Medical, Vision and Dental coverage.
- Unlimited Vacation.
- Flexible hours and Work from Home support.
- Daily drinks, snacks and catered meals (when in office).
- Regularly scheduled team building activities and social events.
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