Gensyn · 14 hours ago
Application Security Engineer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior LevelGensyn is focused on developing protocols for machine intelligence and is seeking an Application Security Engineer to secure their decentralized systems, tooling, protocols, and services. The role involves contributing code, developing security strategies, and monitoring security incidents while educating teams on best practices.
BlockchainCryptocurrencyMachine Learning
Responsibilities
Contribute code that secures our software alongside our application and system engineers
Own and develop security posture, tools, and strategy for application-level systems: web apps, APIs, and Smart Contracts
Perform threat modeling, architecture reviews and design reviews for new features, services and protocols
Monitor and respond to application-level security incidents
Stay abreast of emerging threats relevant to our stack and proactively apply mitigations
Educate teams across the company on security best practices
Qualification
Required
Strong ability to write and review code
Experience performing threat modeling, architecture risk assessments and application vulnerability management
Deep understanding of web application and blockchain security
Familiarity with cloud-native infrastructure/applications and ability to secure them end-to-end
Excellent written and verbal communication
Comfortable operating in a high-autonomy, high-velocity team
Preferred
Deep hands-on application security experience in production Web3 environments
Experience securing and monitoring crypto keys and safes
Familiarity with machine-learning infrastructure or distributed systems
Experience with threat-hunting, adversary simulation, or advanced persistent-threat (APT) mitigation
Open source security tooling contributions or public writing about application security
Familiarity with GPU/accelerator environments, large-scale model-training workflows, or supply-chain risks in ML/AI
Benefits
Competitive salary + share of equity and token pool
Fully remote work - we currently hire between the West Coast (PT) and Central Europe (CET) time zones
Visa sponsorship - available for those who would like to relocate to the US after being hired
3-4x all expenses paid company retreats around the world, per year
Whatever equipment you need
Paid sick leave and flexible vacation
Company-sponsored health, vision, and dental insurance - including spouse/dependents [🇺🇸 only]
Company
Gensyn
Gensyn is a machine learning compute protocol for the world's deep learning models.
Founded in 2020
11-50 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$50.6MKey Investors
a16z cryptoEden Block7percent Ventures
2023-06-11Series A· $43M
2022-03-18Seed· $6.5M
2021-01-01Pre Seed· $1.1M
Leadership Team
Ben Fielding
Co-Founder & CEO
Harry Grieve
Co-founder
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