Security Engineer

HUD is building infrastructure to create RL training data and evals for frontier AI agents as well as a marketplace to sell these to frontier labs through the HUD marketplace. Our platform is used by frontier labs Fortune 500 companies and startups. Weve raised $16M from top VCs and were YC W25.

Were looking for a Security Engineer to own and build HUDs security program as our first full-time security hire. You will work closely with the rest engineering to secure our product cloud infrastructure data workflows and internal systems. Youll also lead incident response SOC 2 and customer trust.

We are securing up to billions in data assets and are looking for someone who can lead security such that our infrastructure is never compromised.

• Lead detection and incident response from signal to alert to postmortem

• Own HUDs security roadmap across product security cloud and infrastructure security corporate security incident response and compliance

• Secure HUDs APIs platform and data systems through threat modeling design and code reviews authentication and authorization controls secrets management etc.

• Build monitoring detection and incident-response capabilities; lead investigations and postmortems; and turn incidents and emerging threats into durable improvements

• Own SOC 2 and customer trust including control design security questionnaires policy management vendor reviews and audits

• Partner with legal commercial engineering and operations to translate customer contracts and data-license requirements into enforceable controls for data access provenance permitted use retention deletion isolation and auditability

You may be a good fit if you have:

• Strong security engineering fundamentals and hands-on experience across multiple areas such as infrastructure security detection and response identity etc.

• Experience leading security incidents end-to-end from detection and containment through root-cause analysis and follow-up engineering work

• Experience implementing or operating SOC 2 or a comparable security framework including translating requirements into real technical and operational controls

• High agency and sound judgmentyou can identify and prioritize the risks that matter make pragmatic decisions under uncertainty and personally drive implementation

• Strong communication skills for working with founders engineers operations legal auditors customers and external partners

Strong candidates may also:

• Experience as an early security hire or building a security program from scratch at a fast-growing startup

• Experience securing AI/ML infrastructure agent execution environments data platforms developer tools or other systems that run untrusted code or process sensitive data

• Experience protecting licensed proprietary or customer-provided data and operationalizing contractual requirements around access use retention and deletion

• Experience finding CVEs creating security tooling on GitHub or with bug bounty programs

• CVEs or have created security tooling on GitHub have conference talks bug bounty history or blog posts about incidents/something security related theyve done that would also be good

• OSCP AWS Security Specialist OSWE CKS or GIAC hands on certifications

We prioritize technical aptitude and learning potential over years of experience. Motivated candidates are encouraged to apply even if they dont meet all criteria.

• Team Size: 25 people currently mostly full-time in-person

• Our team: Our team includes 4 International Olympiad medalists (IOI ILO IPhO) serial AI startup founders and researchers with publications at ICLR NeurIPS etc.

• Company stage: We have 8 figures in funding and high revenue growth. Were scaling profitably and quickly to meet very strong demand.

• Employment: Full-time.

• Location: On-site only for now. You can join the team in the San Francisco Bay Area or Singapore offices.

• Visa Sponsorship: We provide support for relocation and visas for strong full-time candidates to the US or Singapore.

• Timeline: Applications are rolling. The process is 2 technical interviews and a 2-3 day work trial.

• Very competitive compensation

• 100% covered top-of-the-line medical dental and vision from Blue Shield of CA (US employees)

• Lunch and dinner when youre in the office

• Company-wide holiday break (Christmas Eve to New Years Day) on top of PTO and paid holidays

• Other perks including an Equinox membership 401k and commuter benefits (US employees)

• Unlimited* access to tokens for ChatGPT Claude Code Cursor etc. *By unlimited we mean no one on our token usage leaderboard has ever hit a limit. So we have no idea what the limit is.

Due to high volume we may not actively respond to every application but feel free to contact us at or elsewhere if we missed your application!

Required Experience:

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