Job Summary:
Altos Labs is focused on restoring cell health through cell rejuvenation and is seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to enhance their human-focused security program. The role involves collaborating with scientists and engineers to build scalable security capabilities that protect sensitive data and improve incident response.
Responsibilities:
• Develop security controls that can enable scientists and researchers while protecting sensitive data (intellectual property, regulated data, experimental datasets)
• Perform threat modeling and risk assessments for applications, infrastructure, AI/ML systems, and lab/OT environments; translate findings into pragmatic controls and roadmaps
• Leverage DevOps principles and Infrastructure as Code techniques to scale security systems and controls
• Build automations and integrations (SOAR) around tools, processes, and systems to facilitate ongoing operations, reduce toil, and improve response times
• Manage Incident Response - prepare playbooks, perform triage, investigation, and remediation; coordinate cross-functional response; conduct forensic analysis; run tabletop exercises and after-action reviews; continuously improve detection and response
• Secure AI solutions from threats to data security, integrity, and misuse; implement model and prompt safety guardrails; evaluate enterprise and third-party AI tools; contribute to AI usage policies and governance
• Act as a security subject matter expert - educating, training, and mentoring others
Qualifications:
Required:
• 7 years of experience in the technology space (at least 5 with a security focus)
• Comfortable collaborating with engineers, scientists, legal/compliance and IT professionals
• Proficient in on-premises and cloud security engineering, including Infrastructure as Code solutions. Skilled in code security, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, and detection engineering.
• Experience performing application and/or infrastructure design reviews to identify areas of improvement as well as recommending appropriate security controls. Ideal candidates would also follow through to ensure their recommendations are implemented.
• Expertise in managing security incidents, conducting detailed analysis of security events, and overseeing sensitive investigations related to cyber activities
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or related field
• Ability to work without supervision, ability to handle competing priorities.
Preferred:
• Experience working in a compliance oriented environment (healthcare, government, fintech, ISO, SOC, PCI, etc)
• Information security certifications (CISSP, GIAC, etc)
• Experience with AI risk assessment, red teaming of AI/LLM systems, and defenses against prompt injection, data exfiltration, and excessive agency
Company:
Altos Labs focuses on cellular rejuvenation programming to restore cell health and resilience, to reverse disease to transform medicine. Founded in 2021, the company is headquartered in San Francisco, USA, with a team of 201-500 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.