Front-End Engineer – Security & Integrity

Front-End Engineer – Security & Integrity
4+ Years of Industry Experience | San Francisco, CA 

Compensation: 255k - 405k + Offers Equity

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain secure, responsive front-end applications leveraging modern frameworks (React, TypeScript).
• Collaborate closely with security engineers, AI researchers, and designers to integrate security and AI best practices into user interfaces.
• Implement front-end security controls, including authentication flows, input validation, and secure API integrations.
• Design and build intuitive, interactive experiences utilizing various AI models, including ChatGPT, vision models, and other generative AI tools.
• Optimize performance and scalability of front-end components to ensure seamless and responsive user experiences.
• Conduct code reviews and participate actively in security- and AI-focused development cycles.
• Continuously explore and integrate the latest front-end, security, and AI technologies, methodologies, and trends.

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of professional front-end engineering experience.
• Strong proficiency with JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and modern front-end frameworks.
• Demonstrable experience integrating security best practices into front-end development (e.g., secure authentication, OAuth, JWT).
• Familiarity with front-end security threats (XSS, CSRF) and effective mitigation techniques.
• Experience working with diverse AI models, including but not limited to NLP (ChatGPT), vision, and multimodal systems.
• Solid understanding of responsive design and accessibility principles.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical and security topics to diverse stakeholders.
• Experience with security analytics dashboards or threat monitoring tools.
• Knowledge of cloud environments (AWS, GCP) and secure deployment practices.
• Familiarity with automated security testing and CI/CD pipelines.

You Might Thrive in This Role If You: 

• Extensive experience in front-end development or UI engineering, with a portion of that experience in technical leadership or ownership roles.
• Deep understanding of front-end security principles and best practices, including secure coding, threat modeling, and mitigating common web vulnerabilities (e.g., XSS, CSRF, clickjacking).
• Strong experience building modern, performant, and secure web applications using frameworks such as React, Vue, or Angular.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain UI/UX decisions and security considerations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience at a startup (even if failed), showing initiative, adaptability, hands-on problem-solving, and the ability to move quickly while maintaining product and security quality.

About the AI Company

The company is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve their mission, they must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

They are an equal opportunity employer, and they do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.