Founding Security Engineer
Lead IT and holistic security efforts at a pioneering AI lab focused on chip design and self-improving systems.
Posted by employer 7 months ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 week ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Skills & Technologies
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, years of experience, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
The Founding Security Engineer at Ricursive Intelligence is responsible for developing and implementing robust security measures to protect the company's IT infrastructure and intellectual property. This role requires extensive experience in network hardening, cloud security, and countering social engineering threats, utilizing a hands-on approach to build effective defenses. Ideal candidates will have a strong technical background and a proactive mindset, suited for a pioneering environment focused on cutting-edge AI research and chip design.
Joblaze insights
- Listed 9 days ago on Joblaze — tracked directly from Ricursive Intelligence's career page.
- Ricursive Intelligence has 12 other open roles including Software Engineer, Chip Design, Chip Design Engineer, RTL and Design Verification Engineer.
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- Typical AI salary we track runs $120,000–$199,775 (median $159,900, across 686 roles). See AI salary trends
Quick facts
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: AI, Network Security, chip design, cloud infrastructure.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Ricursive Intelligence targets lead candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Founding Security Engineer role at Ricursive Intelligence.
From the original posting
Ricursive Intelligence is a frontier AI lab building self-improving systems, starting with chip design. We are reinventing chip development and closing the loop between AI and the hardware that fuels it, recursively accelerating the path to artificial superintelligence. Backed by $335M from Sequoia, Lightspeed, DST, and NVIDIA Ventures, we are a small and fast-paced team where every hire shapes the work.
The company has unmatched talent density, including IMO, IPHO, and IOAA gold medalists, pioneers who made prior breakthroughs in chip design: AlphaChip (Nature 2021), ePlace (DAC Best Paper Nominee 2014), RL-CCD (DAC Best Paper 2023), INSTA (DAC Best Paper 2025), and C3PO (ASP-DAC Best Paper 2026), chip leads for Apple (iPhone, iPad, M1) and Google (TPU, OpenTitan), and top researchers and engineers from Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Stanford, and MIT.
Ricursive is hiring a best-in-class founding professional to lead our IT and holistic security efforts. We’re looking for a hands-on builder with deep technical experience to own our defensive posture, spanning internal network hardening, cloud infrastructure, and defense against social engineering attacks. You will architect and manage the IT systems that protect our core and our partners' intellectual property, ensuring a pragmatic balance between world-class security and research speed.