Security engineer, detection and response

About this role

WRITER is seeking a Detection and Response Engineer to defend our AI / AGI platforms, training data, and deployed models against sophisticated and evolving threats.

At WRITER, protecting the integrity of our AI systems is as critical as advancing their capabilities. This role blends hands-on security engineering with strategic threat detection, ensuring our defenses evolve faster than the adversaries targeting our infrastructure. You'll design advanced detections, automate rapid responses, and lead investigations into incidents affecting our AI stack-covering everything from GPU clusters to model inference endpoints.

You'll be the operational heartbeat of our AI security posture, partnering across security, infrastructure, and research teams to detect attacks, orchestrate containment, and safeguard our most valuable intellectual property.

If you thrive on staying ahead of attackers and can turn cutting-edge AI threat intelligence into production-grade detection systems, we'd love to hear from you.

Role Boundaries & Collaboration

What You Own (Responsible)

• Incident response coordination
• Real-time threat monitoring and detection
• Production AI monitoring (not research)
• Forensic investigation
• Detection engineering across all security domains
• AI threat detection implementation

What You Don't Own (Others Lead)

Key Partnerships

Your responsibilities

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Required Experience

Technical Expertise

Execution & Impact

Preferred Qualifications

Benefits & perks (US Full-time employees)

Home office setup, cell phone, internet

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