Staff AI Engineer, SecurityScorecard
$200-240k
OTE
+ Stock options
More information about location
Cybersecurity ratings & risk management
Open for applications
Cybersecurity ratings & risk management
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$200-240k
OTE
+ Stock options
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
SecurityScorecard's mission is to make the world a safer place by transforming the way organisations understand, mitigate, and communicate cybersecurity risk to their boards, employees, and vendors.
Role
Who you are
- You have strong product instincts and are comfortable operating with the ownership and ambiguity of a founding-team environment within an established company
- 7+ years of software engineering experience with a track record of leading complex, high-impact technical projects end-to-end
- Demonstrated ability to operate independently across the full product development lifecycle, from problem definition through production operations
- 3+ years building and shipping AI-powered product features in production, including LLM integration, agentic systems, or intelligent automation
- Strong product instincts: you think about user problems and business outcomes, not just technical implementation
- Proficiency in TypeScript and strong backend engineering fundamentals with experience in distributed systems at scale
- Fluency with AI-native development workflows (Cursor, Claude Code, or equivalent) as a primary engineering practice, not an experiment
- Cloud infrastructure experience (AWS preferred) and comfort with the full production stack
- Exceptional communication: able to drive alignment across product, engineering, and executive stakeholders
Desirable
- Prior experience in a Staff or Principal engineering role with cross-team technical influence
- Background in cybersecurity, threat intelligence, or enterprise risk products
- Experience building and operating agentic AI systems, multi-agent orchestration, or LLM evaluation infrastructure
- Track record of defining engineering standards or leading technical strategy at the organizational level
- Experience in high-growth, Series C/D+ companies where engineering velocity and quality both matter
What the job involves
- SecurityScorecard is building AI capabilities that change how security professionals understand and act on risk. We are looking for a Staff AI Engineer to lead that work
- This is the role for the engineer who needs no scaffolding. You identify the problem, design the system, build it, ship it, and improve it — and you bring others along
- You use AI-native tools not as a novelty but as a genuine force multiplier, moving at a pace that used to require a full team
- Lead the design and delivery of major AI-powered product initiatives from concept through production, owning the full software development lifecycle
- Define the technical architecture for AI systems at SecurityScorecard: LLM pipelines, agentic workflows, retrieval infrastructure, and evaluation frameworks
- Set the standard for how the engineering organization builds with AI, including development practices, tooling choices, and quality bars
- Use Cursor, Claude Code, and AI-native development tools as core instruments, and model what high-velocity, high-quality AI-augmented engineering looks like for the team
- Collaborate directly with product leadership and the CTO organization to shape the AI product roadmap
- Drive architecture reviews, establish cross-team engineering standards, and elevate the technical level of the teams you work with
- Identify and eliminate bottlenecks in how AI features get built, tested, and shipped across the organization
- Operate with Staff-level ownership: you see the whole problem, not just your part of it
- Our Tech Stack:
- TypeScript / JavaScript, Go, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, ClickHouse, PostgreSQL
Our take
Organisations understand the value of data and the value of business partnerships that will help them leverage it. However, involving more companies increases the risk of vulnerabilities and, therefore, costly data breaches. SecurityScorecard is a cloud-based enterprise SaaS solution that helps organisations assess and manage cybersecurity risks, offering analyses of potential partner companies using A-F security ratings.
SecurityScorecard looms over its competitors as it covers millions of companies, offering near-instant cybersecurity analyses and an array of capabilities. It has a large, global, and big-name customer base, including 9 of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies and 9 of the top 10 banking institutions, and it is likely to go public in the next few years.
It has both developed and consolidated an impressive lead in a sector that will continue to grow and reward cutting-edge security solutions. Security Scorecard set to remain an industry leader with demonstrable, accessible, and highly attractive customer offerings. In 2024, this included a supply chain cyber risk management platform - MAX - which is driving record revenue.
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Insights
62% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Mar 2021
$180m
SERIES E
Jun 2019
$50m
SERIES D
Total funding: $292.2m
Company benefits
- Stock options
- 12 weeks of paid maternity leave / 4 weeks paid paternity leave
- Work from home opportunities
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Unlimited PTO
- 401K
- $3k annual education stipend per employee
- Full access to our learning platform and company professional development events
- Up to $10K referral bonus
Company HQ
Midtown South, New York, NY
Leadership
Aleksandr Yampolskiy
(Co-Founder & CEO)Worked at Oracle and Goldman Sachs, before serving for 2 years as CISO of Gilt Group. Founded NYC Technology Startup, Meetup, in 2012 and then worked as CTO of Cinchcast.
Sam Kassoumeh
(Co-Founder & COO)Progressed from Technology Compliance Manager to Head of Security and Compliance at Gilt Groupe within 4 years, and worked as Cyber Security Advisor for Billy.
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