Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. SmarterDx is transforming how health systems use clinical AI to capture the full value of patient care delivered. They are seeking a Staff Security Engineer to lead AI security and threat detection efforts, ensuring safe adoption of AI technologies and maintaining incident response readiness. The role involves mentoring teammates and acting as a senior resource for security across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Own our approach to AI and agentic security: guardrails for agentic access to cloud and data, and the security of the AI and ML workloads in our product
- Publish the org's AI-security standard and drive its adoption by other engineering teams
- Own our detection platform (Panther): detection strategy and coverage across cloud, container, and SaaS log sources, and the standards that keep detections high-signal as we grow
- Own incident-response readiness: the plan, the playbooks, and tested tabletops tied to the HIPAA breach-notification timeline, and help lead response when a real incident happens
- Lead complex security work across teams from start to finish, resolving ambiguity and coordinating with Platform, Engineering, and Compliance
- Act as the senior security resource across cloud security and security reviews, and the security expert other engineering teams seek out for guidance on high-stakes decisions
- Mentor teammates who are growing their security depth, set team standards for detection authoring and code review, and help raise our interview and hiring bar
- Build and grow security automation that gives a small team more reach, and contribute to the tooling the team runs on
- Take part in architecture reviews and threat modeling on our highest-risk designs, and communicate the resulting security architecture so the whole team can understand it and build on it
Skills
- 8+ years in security and software engineering, with deep hands-on experience in AWS and cloud-native infrastructure, including working competence with containerized workloads (EKS) and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform)
- A track record of leading complex security work across teams and making other engineers more effective
- Depth in AI and agentic security: securing LLM applications, agentic frameworks, and MCP, plus prompt-injection and agentic-access defenses
- Depth in threat detection engineering: designing, authoring, and tuning detections in a modern SIEM, and reasoning about coverage against real threats
- Incident-response experience, including building the plan and running the response
- The ability to write production code (Python, Go, or TypeScript) and build security tooling, not only configure products
- Strong writing and communication; you can publish a standard other teams adopt and explain a hard design to a non-security audience
- Working knowledge of SOC 2 and HIPAA, and the judgment to design controls that hold up without stalling delivery
- Experience mentoring and leveling up other engineers
- Recognized AI-security work: published standards or research, contributions to AI-security tooling, or red-teaming of AI/LLM systems
- Startup experience, especially in health tech or another regulated, data-sensitive environment
- Deeper specialization in container security (Kubernetes/EKS, Helm) or in infrastructure-as-code and policy-as-code, beyond working competence
- Experience consolidating or retiring a security platform with a measurable cost or coverage result
Benefits
- Medical, Dental & Vision – Comprehensive plans with leading insurance providers, covering 75% of your premiums, depending on the plan.
- Paid Parental Leave – Generous paid leave to support families through birth or adoption: Up to 12 weeks for parents.
- Remote-First Team – Work from anywhere in the U.S.
- Unlimited PTO & 10 Holidays – So you can relax and recharge.
- 401(k) with Traditional & Roth Options– Tax-advantaged retirement savings through Fidelity with a 4% match.
- Minimal Bureaucracy – A fast-moving, high-impact environment where you can focus on what matters.
- Incredible Teammates! – Work alongside smart, supportive, and mission-driven colleagues.
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