GenAI Security - Principal Security Research Engineer
Elastic · United States
onsitefull-time10+ years
posted 2d
Sign in to apply<div class="content-intro"><p>Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale — unleashing the potential of businesses and people. The Elastic Search AI Platform, used by more than 50% of the Fortune 500, brings together the precision of search and the intelligence of AI to enable everyone to accelerate the results that matter. By taking advantage of all structured and unstructured data — securing and protecting private information more effectively — Elastic’s complete, cloud-based solutions for search, security, and observability help organizations deliver on the promise of AI.</p></div><h3><strong>What is The Role</strong></h3> <div class="p" data-block="true" data-editor="drfgl" data-offset-key="bi82b-0-0"> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bi82b-0-0"> <div class="p" data-block="true" data-editor="b5ec8" data-offset-key="bi82b-0-0"> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bi82b-0-0"> <div class="p" data-block="true" data-editor="ca6k3" data-offset-key="bi82b-0-0"> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="bi82b-0-0"><span data-offset-key="bi82b-0-0"><span data-text="true">As a Principal Security Research Engineer on the Threat Research and Detection Engineering (TRaDE) team, you'll play a key role in shaping the detection capabilities of Elastic Security. You'll work hands-on with detection engineering and threat research, focusing on enhancing our defenses, particularly in the areas of AI security. This position invites you to apply your solid security background and keen interest in offensive security validating detection methods, helping to create effective and reliable detection content that benefits the wider community.</span></span></div> </div> <h3 class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="3m9da-0-0"><span data-offset-key="3m9da-0-0"><span data-text="true">What You Will Be Doing</span></span></h3> <ul class="public-DraftStyleDefault-ul" data-offset-key="6714c-0-0"> <li class="public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-reset public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-listLTR" data-block="true" data-editor="ca6k3" data-offset-key="6714c-0-0"> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="6714c-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6714c-0-0"><span data-text="true">Design and carry out security tests for GenAI applications, agentic systems, and LLM-backed products. These tests will check for various attack types. They include prompt injection, indirect injection, retrieval poisoning, tool misuse, </span></span><span id="popover-trigger-:ro:" class="chakra-text css-8zk7oi"><span data-offset-key="6714c-1-0"><span data-text="true">sensitive</span></span></span><span data-offset-key="6714c-2-0"><span data-text="true"> data extraction, and unsafe delegation to with the core purpose of building security protections</span></span></div> </li> <li class="public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-listLTR" data-block="true" data-editor="ca6k3" data-offset-key="6trj0-0-0"> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="6trj0-0-0"><span data-offset-key="6trj0-0-0"><span data-text="true">Investigate new multi-domain threat vectors and attack methodologies to stay ahead of emerging risks and translating these into new security protections (e.g. detection rules)</span></span></div> </li> <li class="public-DraftStyleDefault-unorderedListItem public-DraftStyleDefault-depth0 public-DraftStyleDefault-listLTR" data-block="true" data-editor="ca6k3" data-offset-key="5hj9l-0-0"> <div class="public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr" data-offset-key="5hj9l-0-0"><span data-offset-key="5hj9