{"id":741383,"url":"https://alion.io/job/hud-security-engineer","title":"Senior Security Engineer","company":{"id":678875,"name":"HUD","domain":"hud.so","url":"https://alion.io/company/hud-3","size_band":"11-50","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"ats_vendor":"Ashby","truth_index":null},"role":"Security","role_family":"Security","seniority":"senior","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["San Francisco, United States","Singapore"],"countries":["US","SG"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":139000,"max_usd":277000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":659},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":true,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AI Agents","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"ChatGPT","optional":false},{"name":"Claude Code","optional":false},{"name":"Cursor","optional":false},{"name":"GitHub","optional":false},{"name":"SOC 2","optional":false},{"name":"Threat Modeling","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-09T19:10:20Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-09","last_verified_at":"2026-09-24T04:47:10Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":14,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":14},"description":"About HUD\nHUD is building infrastructure to create RL training data and evals for frontier AI agents, as well as a marketplace to sell these to frontier labs through the HUD marketplace. Our platform is used by frontier labs, Fortune 500 companies, and startups. We’ve raised $16M from top VCs and were YC W25.\nAbout the role\nWe’re looking for a Security Engineer to own and build HUD’s security program as our first full-time security hire. You will work closely with the rest engineering to secure our product, cloud infrastructure, data workflows, and internal systems. You’ll also lead incident response, SOC 2, and customer trust.\nWe are securing up to billions in data assets and are looking for someone who can lead security such that our infrastructure is never compromised.\nResponsibilities\nLead detection and incident response from signal to alert to postmortem\n\nOwn HUD’s security roadmap across product security, cloud and infrastructure security, corporate security, incident response, and compliance\n\nSecure HUD’s APIs, platform, and data systems through threat modeling, design and code reviews, authentication and authorization controls, secrets management, etc.\n\nBuild monitoring, detection, and incident-response capabilities; lead investigations and postmortems; and turn incidents and emerging threats into durable improvements\n\nOwn SOC 2 and customer trust, including control design, security questionnaires, policy management, vendor reviews, and audits\n\nPartner with legal, commercial, engineering, and operations to translate customer contracts and data-license requirements into enforceable controls for data access, provenance, permitted use, retention, deletion, isolation, and auditability\n\nExperience\nYou may be a good fit if you have:\nStrong security engineering fundamentals and hands-on experience across multiple areas such as infrastructure security, detection and response, identity, etc.\n\nExperience leading security incidents end-to-end, from detection and containment through root-cause analysis and follow-up engineering work\n\nExperience implementing or operating SOC 2 or a comparable security framework, including translating requirements into real technical and operational controls\n\nHigh agency and sound judgment-you can identify and prioritize the risks that matter, make pragmatic decisions under uncertainty, and personally drive implementation\n\nStrong communication skills for working with founders, engineers, operations, legal, auditors, customers, and external partners\n\nStrong candidates may also:\nExperience as an early security hire or building a security program from scratch at a fast-growing startup\n\nExperience securing AI/ML infrastructure, agent execution environments, data platforms, developer tools, or other systems that run untrusted code or process sensitive data\n\nExperience protecting licensed, proprietary, or customer-provided data and operationalizing contractual requirements around access, use, retention, and deletion\n\nExperience finding CVEs, creating security tooling on GitHub, or with bug bounty programs\n\nCVEs, or have created security tooling on GitHub, have conference talks, bug bounty history, or blog posts about incidents/something security related they've done that would also be good\n\nOSCP, AWS Security Specialist, OSWE, CKS, or GIAC hands on certifications\n\nWe prioritize technical aptitude and learning potential over years of experience. Motivated candidates are encouraged to apply even if they don't meet all criteria.\nTeam & company details\nTeam Size: ~25 people currently, mostly full-time in-person, but some remote.\n\nOur team: Our team includes 4 International Olympiad medalists (IOI, ILO, IPhO), serial AI startup founders, and researchers with publications at ICLR, NeurIPS, etc.\n\nCompany stage: We have 8 figures in funding and are scaling profitably and quickly to meet very strong demand.\n\nLogistics\nEmployment: Full-time.\n\nLocation: We have offices in San Francisco or Singapore but are open to remote candidates who can work hours that 70-80% overlap with either San Francisco or Singapore time zones.\n\nVisa Sponsorship: We provide support for relocation and visas for strong full-time candidates to the US or Singapore.\n\nTimeline: Applications are rolling. The process is 2 technical interviews and a 2-3 day work trial.\n\nWhat we offer\nCompetitive compensation\n\n100% covered top-of-the-line medical, dental, and vision from Blue Shield of CA (US employees)\n\nLunch and dinner when you’re in the office (in-office employees)\n\nCompany-wide holiday break (Christmas Eve to New Year’s Day) on top of PTO and paid holidays\n\nOther perks including an Equinox membership, 401k, and commuter benefits (US employees)\n\nUnlimited* access to tokens for ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor, etc. *By unlimited, we mean no one on our token usage leaderboard has ever hit a limit. So we have no idea what the limit is.\n\nDue to high volume, we may not actively respond to every application, but feel free to contact us at  or elsewhere if we missed your application!","description_format":"text","description_chars":5064,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":true,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-11T12:44:23Z"}],"liveness":{"score":40,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.448,"p_room":0.9,"age_days":13,"expected_fill_days":30,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:mid"],"computed_at":"2026-09-23T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/hud-security-engineer","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/hud-security-engineer.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-24T05:42:03Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers"}}