AI Application Security Engineer
Brain, San Francisco Bay Area +3
- Pay
- $190K–$325K / year
- Work type
- Remote
- Level
- Not stated
- Area
- Security engineering
- Posted
- May 7, 2026
About the role
OUR MISSION
Rebuild how the world works, to make institutions work better for the people they serve.
ABOUT BRAIN CO.
Brain Co. builds AI-native operating systems for large, regulated institutions. Each system is built for a specific industry, powered by agents that push real workflows forward. Underneath it all is Atlas, our proprietary platform that keeps customers in control, secure by design, and never locked into one model.
WHY NOW
Brain Co. is entering its next phase of production deployments on a national scale with an elite team built from Palantir, Google, Meta, and Nvidia, and a growing footprint across government, insurance, health, and financial services.
Joining now means shaping both the company and a new category of applied AI. Every project here ships to production and is expected to create measurable customer value and impact.
You'll work alongside exceptional peers on some of the hardest problems in applied AI. It’s the kind of work you'll still be proud of in ten years from now.
ABOUT THE ROLE
As our Security Engineer, Application & AI, you will own the security of our products and application layer — secure development practices, agent security, third-party integration security, and data protection for AI products operating in some of the world's most regulated and sensitive environments.
This is a hands-on builder role. You will write code, ship security tooling, and work directly with product and ML engineers to build security in from the start rather than bolt it on after. You are expected to work AI-natively: using AI to write threat models, automate security review, scale code analysis, and build internal tooling. This is not a nice-to-have — it is how the role is designed to operate and how one person can have outsized impact across a fast-moving engineering organization.
Brain Co.'s products are built on agentic infrastructure — AI that takes actions, calls tools, and operates inside complex institutional workflows. The degree varies by product, but the underlying security surface is consistent: how agents are authorized, what they can touch, and how that is controlled at the application layer. This role is specifically designed to address that surface, working alongside the Infrastructure Security Engineer who owns the platform layer underneath.
WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON
Application Security
- Own secure development practices across our products: AuthN/AuthZ patterns, secrets management, input handling, and secure-by-default standards that engineers can follow without security becoming a bottleneck.
- Integrate security into the development lifecycle — code review, CI/CD pipelines, and pre-deployment checks — catching risk before it reaches production.
- Conduct threat modeling across product features and release cycles, translating risk into concrete controls that ship alongside each product.
- Build and maintain security tooling and automated checks that scale your reach across the codebase — using AI to move faster and cover more ground than manual review alone could.
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