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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # AI Security Engineer - **Company:** WAABI PARTNERS - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Salary:** $139,000.0 - $258,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Application Integration Architecture, Productivity Software, Role-Based Access Control, Software Engineering, Large Language Models, Safety Critical Systems, Information Technology, Integration Frameworks - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/applied-ai-security-engineer-waabi-9786029 ## About the Role Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field. - Professional software development experience, with solid fundamentals in how services, APIs, and permissions fit together. - Hands-on experience using AI coding/productivity tools (Claude, Copilot, Gemini, or similar) in business-critical workflows. - Working knowledge of core security concepts - least privilege, sandboxing, trust boundaries, threat modeling basics. - Strong communication skills - you work with engineers as a partner. Bonus: - Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol) or similar tool-calling/agent-integration frameworks. - Exposure to prompt injection, jailbreaking, or other AI/LLM-specific attack techniques. - Background in autonomous vehicles, robotics, or other safety-critical systems ## Description Waabi is leaning into an AI-native strategy - not just in our trucks, but in how we build, ship, and operate every day. Our teams leverage key AI tools to enhance productivity and efficiency, continuously expanding AI integration across our systems and workflows. That's a huge unlock, and it's moving fast. We're looking for someone to make sure it keeps moving fast safely - by establishing the guardrails and collaborating on the implementation of sandboxes and automations that let people adopt AI with confidence instead of second-guessing themselves. You'll join a small, sharp security team and take primary ownership of AI security controls and considerations across the company. If you've got a developer's instincts, a security mindset, and you're genuinely curious about what these tools can and can't be trusted to do, this role is built around you. You will... - Audit how AI tools and MCP integrations are currently used across the company, and map where they touch sensitive systems, data, or credentials for the purpose of defining policy. - Design and implement layered guardrails - enterprise-level system prompts, scoped permissions, sandboxing patterns - that constrain AI behavior before it ever reaches a user's request. - Maintain an inventory of both MCP servers and AI-to-service connections and their data access controls, with a clear model of what each one can access and why. - Partner directly with users across the organization to bake secure-by-default patterns into their AI-assisted workflows so that written policy doesn't just sit on a shelf. - Evaluate new AI tools, plugins, and integration requests, and figure out the secure way to say yes. - Continuously test and red-team your own guardrails - assume they'll be pushed on, and find the gaps before someone else does. - Document guidance and patterns that a non-security audience can actually follow without needing a security background. ## Related Videos - [The Avengers Initiative (Practical Ethics for Software Engineers)](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2070-the-avengers-initiative-practical-ethics-for-software-engineers) - [Coffee with Developers - Adam Wiggins](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/919-coffee-with-developers-adam-wiggins) - [Creating Industry ready solutions with LLM Models](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/899-creating-industry-ready-solutions-with-llm-models) - [The AI Security Survival Guide: Practical Advice for Stressed-Out Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1015-the-ai-security-survival-guide-practical-advice-for-stressed-out-developers) - [Official Opening of WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100000-official-opening-of-wearedevelopers-world-congress-2026) - [Are Your APIs Ready for AI Agents](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2004-are-your-apis-ready-for-ai-agents) ## Related Articles - [How to Become an AI Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/331-how-to-become-an-ai-engineer) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [Transforming Software Development: The Role of AI and Developer Tools](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/527-transforming-software-development-the-role-of-ai-and-developer-tools) - [Dev Digest 164: AI Agents, AI Blindspots and MCP security problems](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/578-dev-digest-164-ai-agents-ai-blindspots-and-mcp-security-problems) - [Stephan Gillich - Bringing AI Everywhere](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/489-stephan-gillich-bringing-ai-everywhere) - [What is Agentic Programming and Why Should Developers Care?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/625-what-is-agentic-programming-and-why-should-developers-care)