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We believe the most promising path to safe AGI lies in automating research and code generation to improve models and solve alignment more reliably than humans can alone. Our approach combines frontier-scale pretraining, domain-specific RL, ultra-long context, and inference-time compute to achieve this goal.\nAbout the role:\nAs a Security Engineer at Magic, you will build the software, automation, and infrastructure that protect our models, systems, and engineering organization from both traditional and frontier AI cyber threats. You will respond to security threats, help us build good practices around security incident/threat response.\nThe role sits at the intersection of software engineering, infrastructure, and security. You will work closely with researchers, infrastructure engineers, and platform teams to reduce risk while considering the productivity impact. 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You will collaborate with our alignment team on whatever they might need to ensure that Magic's models are a safe net-benefit to the world.\nWhat you might work on:\nDesign, build, and maintain security tooling and automation used by Magic's engineering teams\n\nSecure developer infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, build systems, and production services and make the platform tools easy to use\n\nSupport our sandboxes team with building secure sandboxing and isolation for untrusted code, agent and model execution\n\nBuild guardrails against emerging AI attack vectors, including prompt injection, tool abuse, exploit chaining, and autonomous model behavior\n\nProtect model weights, research artifacts, datasets, and production infrastructure from unauthorized access, lateral movement, and exfiltration\n\nRespond to security incidents and live threats\n\nWhat we’re looking for:\nSoftware engineering skills with experience building production systems in Rust, Go, Python, C++, Kotlin, TypeScript, or similar languages\n\nA very good understanding of modern MITRE att&ck techniques\n\nActively engaged in the role of LLMs in securing and attacking software systems\n\nOn-call readiness 24/7, assisted by our team\n\nExperience securing distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, or large-scale production environments\n\nAbility to develop high-complexity cloud Linux-based exploits\n\nDeep understanding of UNIX or other operating systems, networking, authentication, authorization, and modern security architecture\n\nExperience building automation and tooling to secure fast paced organizations\n\nTrack record of exceptional personal integrity, accountability and trustworthiness in high autonomy environments\n\nOur culture\nIntegrity. 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