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Salary: USD 247,000 - 290,000 / annual
Robinhood is seeking a Senior Staff Security Engineer to lead Security Operations as the company builds next-generation AI-driven defensive and offensive security capabilities. This is a 0→1 technical leadership role at the intersection of operational security tradecraft and cutting-edge AI-powered defense.
You will serve as the Security Operations AI Tech Lead, owning the technical creation and execution of Robinhood's security AI roadmap across both defensive and offensive operations. Key responsibilities include:
- Lead offensive security research, applying deep red team, penetration testing, and application security expertise to proactively identify and close critical attack surfaces before adversaries discover them
- Architect and build next-generation defensive capabilities that go beyond static detection—designing intelligent systems that actively engage, deceive, and track sophisticated threat actors, including AI-powered attackers
- Drive Robinhood's AI-forward security strategy, using AI not just as a productivity tool but as a core architectural component to scale against agentic and automated adversaries
- Identify emerging threat actor motivations and attack patterns, especially in the AI space, translating intelligence into proactive defensive architectures
- Set technical standards and mentor security engineers within Security Operations, elevating overall organizational capability
Robinhood's Security Operations team operates across proactive security (finding threats and vulnerabilities before attackers) and reactive security (detecting, investigating, and evicting threat actors in real time). The role addresses the evolving threat landscape where AI-powered attackers move faster, adapt more quickly, and are harder to track with static defenses.
The role is based in Menlo Park, New York City, or Bellevue, with in-person attendance expected at least 3 days per week. Robinhood emphasizes the power of in-person work to accelerate progress, spark innovation, and strengthen community.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 12+ years of security engineering experience with demonstrated depth across both offensive security (red team, penetration testing, application security, vulnerability management) and defensive security (incident response, detection engineering, threat intelligence)
- Proven track record of technical leadership at Senior Staff, Principal, or Distinguished level—you've set org-wide or company-wide security direction, not just executed within a team
- Demonstrated impact innovating with AI in Security Operations—you've moved organizations well beyond chatbot experiences and implemented measurable success in uplifting Security Operations with AI
- Deep expertise in application security—you understand how modern software is built and where it breaks, and can operate equally well as a security engineer and software engineer
- Strong background in threat detection and security operations—you understand how attackers operate and how to build systems that catch them faster
- Genuine, informed point of view on AI in the security domain—you're thinking about how AI fundamentally changes both the attack surface and the defensive toolkit
- Proficiency with cloud infrastructure security (AWS preferred), telemetry and observability tooling, and the technical underpinnings of large-scale detection pipelines
- Exceptional technical communication skills—you can write, brief, and influence at the executive level as well as go deep with engineers on implementation details
- Security certifications (OSCP, GREM, GXPN, or equivalent) are a plus, though demonstrated capability outweighs paper credentials
