Senior Security Engineer, Serving Layer and Platform Security, DeepMind
Mountain View, CA, USA · New York, NY, USA
Posted on Sep 21, 2026
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Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location from the following: Mountain View, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA. Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Electrical/Computer Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience in security engineering, platform security, infrastructure hardening, network protocols, or systems security architecture.
- 5 years of experience in security operations (e.g., operational security monitoring, incident response, vulnerability triage, rotational on-call duty, or threat hunting).
- 5 years of coding experience in one or more systems programming languages (e.g., C, C++).
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience securing large-scale distributed serving infrastructure, core API development, multi-tenant data architectures, etc.
- Demonstrated experience conducting variant analysis, developing security mitigations, and responding to high-severity infrastructure incidents in a production environment.
- Expertise in workload isolation, Linux kernel security, TPU/GPU architecture security, or hardware-backed root-of-trust models.
- Technical understanding of frontier AI security challenges, including prompt injection containment, secure agentic tool execution, and inference memory safety.