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Senior Staff Security Engineer

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Senior Staff Security Engineer in USA

  • New York, NY

Responsibilities

  • Drive Ripple’s AI Security technical strategy and roadmap across AI systems, agentic workflows, and the AI development lifecycle.
  • Design and implement security controls for LLM-integrated and agentic AI systems, including sandboxing, identity and permission scoping, runtime monitoring, and containment.
  • Own security guardrails, AI provenance standards, dual-review requirements, and audit trail controls for AI-assisted development.
  • Lead security reviews and risk assessments for LLM APIs, SaaS copilots, AI code editors, agentic workflows, MCP servers, and vendor-embedded AI.
  • Build and scale Shadow AI detection, enforce acceptable-use policies, and maintain an auditable AI security perimeter.
  • Advise on agentic AI threats including MCP server security, tool poisoning, prompt injection, and excessive agency.
  • Contribute to industry frameworks, regulatory engagement, and published research on responsible AI security.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of Security Engineering experience with depth in at least two domains such as Product Security, Cloud Security, or Security Operations.
  • Meaningful hands-on experience with AI or ML security and strong knowledge of prompt injection, jailbreaks, data poisoning, model extraction, RAG manipulation, tool poisoning, excessive agency, and MCP vulnerabilities.
  • Experience securing agentic AI systems through sandboxing, permission scoping, human-in-the-loop design, or runtime monitoring.
  • Fluency in cloud security on AWS, GCP, or Azure; CI/CD pipeline security; container and Kubernetes security; IAM; and API security.
  • Experience with threat modeling approaches such as STRIDE, MITRE ATLAS, or OWASP LLM Top 10.
  • Experience in FinTech, crypto, or regulated environments is preferred, along with familiarity with NYDFS, MAS, DORA, or SOC 2.
  • Ability to influence technical direction across Engineering, Product, and Security without direct authority and build solutions in ambiguous environments.

Benefits

  • Professional development budget and opportunities to work with experienced industry leaders.
  • Hybrid in-office collaboration with managers and teams deciding which 10+ days per month employees attend in person.
  • Team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours, and bi-weekly all-company meetings.
  • Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support.
  • Employee giving match and mobile phone stipend.
  • R&R days, generous vacation, wellness reimbursement, and weekly onsite and virtual wellness programming.
  • Industry-leading parental leave and family planning benefits.
  • Catered lunches, stocked kitchens, premium snacks and beverages, and company events.
  • Benefits listed apply to full-time employees.

Salary: $224k - $300k/yr

Ripple

Using proven crypto and blockchain technology honed over a decade, Ripple’s enterprise-grade solutions are faster, more transparent, and more cost-effective than traditional financial services. Our customers use these solutions to source crypto, facilitate instant payments, empower their treasury...

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