
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.

Elizabeth Murray
Marketing Lead
Elizabeth Murray
Marketing Lead
We hold each other accountable to keep bringing forth our very best.
We mutually respect each other to go further, challenge our thinking, and continuously evolve at the rapid pace of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Ibrahim Gabr
Principle Solutions Architect
Ibrahim Gabr
Principle Solutions Architect
At Protect AI I get to architect solutions built specifically to secure ML infrastructure, models, and pipelines as well as research technologies for detecting novel AI Vulnerabilities.
Protect AI is inventing the tools that will be at the forefront of MLSecOps.
"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.
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Protect AI is seeking an early-stage engineer that will build the foundations of our product and help shape the future of the company. The selected candidate will work closely with the CTO and team of SDE and ML Engineers to build our products, with input on design, best practices, and architectures. As a SDE, you will build the backend, APIs, and workflow orchestration system that power the ML security tools, as well as build and optimize our Cloud-based CI/CD pipeline. Your role and influence will grow quickly as the company expands.
Locations: Dallas/Austin, Raleigh, & Seattle
Key Responsibilities:
- 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
Protect AI provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Protect AI is seeking an experienced Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to join our team and lead the development and implementation of security measures for our organization's AI (artificial intelligence) applications and systems. The successful candidate will be responsible for identifying and mitigating security risks, developing security policies and procedures, and providing guidance to the team.
Locations: Seattle, Dallas/Austin, Raleigh
Key Responsibilities:
- Identify and assess security risks associated with artificial intelligence applications and systems
- Develop and implement security measures to protect against identified risks
- Create and maintain security policies and procedures
- Stay current with the latest trends and developments in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity
- Provide guidance and training to the team on security best practices
Equal Employment Opportunity
Protect AI provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.