Rivian · 1 day ago
Security Engineer
Atlanta, GA
Full-time
Onsite
Entry, Mid Level
$105K/yr - $131K/yr
2+ years expRivian is on a mission to keep the world adventurous forever, and they are seeking a Security Software Engineer to enhance their AI security posture. This role involves collaborating with AI/ML teams to secure their infrastructure and ensure safety in production environments.
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Responsibilities
Collaborative Design & Validation (The "Consultant-Builder")
Security Reviews: Partner with AI product teams during the design phase to review architecture. You will ask the hard questions: Where is this data stored? How is this model isolated? What happens if the prompt is malicious?
Threat Modeling: Participate in (and eventually lead) threat modeling sessions for new ML features. You will help teams identify risks in their RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipelines or autonomous training loops
Validation: Don't just trust the design; verify it. Work with QA and Engineering to validate that security requirements (like authZ scopes or encryption) are actually implemented correctly in the final code
Engineering & Tooling (The "SWE" Core)
Build "Paved Roads": Write Python or Go libraries that make doing the "secure thing" the "easy thing" for data scientists. (e.g., a library that automatically handles token encryption for ML jobs)
Automate Compliance: Instead of asking teams to fill out spreadsheets, build automation that scans our Kubeflow/MLflow clusters to verify they meet security baselines
Secure Code Contribution: Submit Pull Requests directly to ML repositories to fix vulnerabilities or harden logic, rather than just filing tickets for others to fix
Maturing AI Security (The "Growth" Aspect)
Define Standards: Help write the "Gold Standard" documentation for how to deploy a secure model at Rivian. You will turn tribal knowledge into engineering standards
Vulnerability Management: Assist in triaging findings from bug bounties or internal scans related to our AI surface, and track the "Time to Remediate" to help us understand our maturity gaps
Research & Proto-typing: Stay ahead of the curve. Spend time researching new AI attacks (like Model Inversion) and prototype defenses to see if they work in our environment
Qualification
Required
Strong Engineering Foundation: 2+ years of software engineering experience. You write clean, tested code (Python preferred) and understand the SDLC
Security Mindset: Experience looking at a system design and identifying where it might break. You understand concepts like 'Least Privilege,' 'Defense in Depth,' and 'Input Validation.'
Communication Skills: You can explain a security risk to a Data Scientist without using jargon, and you can explain an ML constraint to a Security Engineer
Understanding of AI/ML: You understand the basic components of an AI system (Data Lake -> Training -> Model Registry -> Inference API) and where security fits into that flow
Preferred
Experience with AWS or GCP cloud security architecture
Experience using or securing Vector Databases or LLM orchestrators (like LangChain)
Previous experience in an embedded, automotive, or IoT environment (understanding that code eventually runs on a vehicle or physical hardware)
Benefits
Paid vacation
Paid sick leave
Life insurance
Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Short-term disability insurance
Long-term disability insurance
401(k) Plan
Employee Stock Purchase Program
Company
Rivian
Rivian is an automotive technology company that develops products and services to advance the shift to sustainable mobility.
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$21.93BKey Investors
Volkswagen GroupUS Department of EnergyIllinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity
2025-06-30Post Ipo Equity· $1B
2024-11-25Post Ipo Debt· $6.6B
2024-05-02Grant· $827M
Leadership Team
Robert Scaringe
Chief Executive Officer
Claire McDonough
Chief Financial Officer
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