
Careers
Define a new cybersecurity category with us.
We are shaping, defining, and innovating a new category within cybersecurity around the risk, security, and compliance of AI/ML. Join our team to help us solve this critical need of protecting AI.
Prevent AI Zero Days.
Reshape an industry.
AI and ML bring new and unique cybersecurity vulnerabilities. While traditional exploits can be detected and mitigated, new ML-specific threats such as Adversarial ML and attacks on the ML supply chain require entirely new thinking, research, and methods to help this AI-enabled world be safer for all. Protect AI is giving cybersecurity departments and their leaders a common way of understanding these new risks, while helping ML developers build security into their applications from the start.
Meet Some of the Team
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I chose to work at Protect AI because it’s an amazing opportunity to help design the future of what MLSecOps is going to look like. I believe in the vision of empowering ML teams, and Protect AI is a leader in best practices for teams to easily and quickly secure their entire ML pipeline. We are creating solutions that enable ML Engineers to have more confidence that the models they are building are secure before shipping.
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Jacob Brookins
Senior Software Engineer
Jacob Brookins
Senior Software Engineer
What we are building doesn’t currently exist and we are innovating in a mostly Greenfield space. Our leaders have a vision for where we need to go, and a history of delivering successfully on that vision.
Protect AI is also a leader in not just ML Security tooling, but also in helping organization leaders and security professionals better engage with ML Engineers in what they do and how they do it.

Dan McInerney
Senior Security Engineer
Dan McInerney
Senior Security Engineer
Dan leads Protect AI's cybersecurity research practice and develops methods for finding unique ML vulnerabilities and AI Zero Days. Researching novel attacks in emerging fields such as machine learning has been a continuing passion. Dan is a top-rated BlackHat instructor, he has written dozens of security tools as a top-ranked Python GitHub developer, and has 15+ years of cybersecurity and red team experience.
Prior to Protect AI, he was a senior penetration tester focusing on high-level Google, Azure, and Amazon ML products.

Faisal Khan
Senior Software Engineer
Faisal Khan
Senior Software Engineer
Protect AI is at the forefront of the rapidly growing field of security in AI systems.
It's a great opportunity for someone to be a pioneer in the space, grow their skills, and have a real impact on making the adoption of AI systems more widespread by making them reliable and secure.

Mehrin Kiani
ML Researcher
Mehrin Kiani
ML Researcher
The hallmark of working at Protect AI is the appreciation of a growth mindset and mutual trust with leadership.
Leaders at Protect AI communicate their vision and foster cohesive teams.
I’m grateful to have the freedom to explore, research, and learn as we evolve at Protect AI.

Charlie McCarthy
Program and Community Manager
Charlie McCarthy
Program and Community Manager
What is most exhilarating to me about Protect AI is the opportunity to build alongside every person within this company. It's a dream team of brilliant minds. Our mission to lead the industry transition to MLSecOps is successful in part because our people embody all of these traits. They are experts that know how to get things done. Not only that, but they are kind and good humans. I can't think of a more desirable environment in which to work, and that's pretty dang exciting.

Josh Miles
Senior Software Engineer
Josh Miles
Senior Software Engineer
Protect AI is a great place to work because we’re on the cutting edge of the field of MLSecOps. As the adoption of ML models in production has been gaining traction, there’s an entire industry that doesn’t have proper tooling to ensure that what they’re putting into the world is secure. Working at Protect AI means that we can help enable those teams to know that their data and IP are secure.
"It’s difficult enough today to build flexible and performant systems powered by Machine Learning.
I love helping our customers better understand the security and privacy risks of operating ML powered workloads and then building products to help mitigate these issues, allowing them to leverage machine learning with more confidence."
-Chris King, Head of Product

Benefits & Perks
Market rate, competitive salary, and sizable equity positions.
Relocation compensation is available to Seattle and DFW transfers.
Faster career acceleration from smart risk-taking in a hypergrowth space.
Work with your friends! We pay referral bonuses.
Excellent medical, dental, vision, wellness, and prescription benefits.
Paid travel for personal medical needs.
Flexible time off, because we care more about contributions than calendars.
Best-in-class equipment and tools for better communication, collaboration, and execution.
Location: Greater Seattle Area
You will:
- Technically lead a multidisciplinary team of ML Engineers, Security Engineers & Software Engineers. Interface with Product Managers and customers
- Build innovative ML auditability, provenance, and security tools (OSS and proprietary)
- Keep up with latest tools, techniques and research in ML and ML Security and AppSec landscape
- Lead, guide and mentor junior and senior engineers
- Work closely with CTO and help shape the product and engineering. Lead from the front to build a great engineering culture
Location: Greater Seattle Area
You will:
- Build innovative ML auditability, provenance and security tools (OSS and proprietary)
- Work closely with Software Engineers, Security Engineers and Product Managers
- Keep up with latest tools, techniques and research in ML and ML Security landscape
- Mentor junior engineers
Location: Greater Seattle Area
You will:
- Build innovative ML security tools (OSS and proprietary)
- Work closely with ML Engineers, Software Engineers, Product Managers and wider threat research community we are building
- Keep up with latest tools, techniques and research in AppSec and ML Security landscape
- Mentor junior engineers
Location: Greater Seattle Area
You will:
- Design, develop, and maintain software systems, applications, and services
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and develop solutions
- Act as a technical leader and mentor for junior team members
- Drive the technical direction and architecture of the software systems
- Continuously improve the software development process, including testing, deployment, and monitoring
Location: Greater Seattle Area
You will:
- Own the creation and maintenance of our visual identity including logo, colors, typography, icons, illustrations and other creative assets.
- Design layouts for the corporate website and subdomains using a design system.
- Influence visual direction of the platform and support asset requirements like icons and illustrations.
- Design and produce marketing collateral (digital and print).
- Support creative development of innovative marketing campaigns, from concept to delivery across digital and physical platforms.
- Work with internal partners and vendors, who will support the implementation of the brand identity.
- Develop creative that is informed by strategy and research.
- Support the team on ad hoc design requests to support marketing activation and campaigns, social media etc.