Staff Security Engineer - AI Enablement
Trustly · San Francisco, CA
$225,000–$340,000
Jul 5, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual contributor role focused on securing an organization's internal and product-facing AI systems, including large language models, agentic workflows, and Model Context Protocol implementations. The work centers on threat modeling, defining security controls, building monitoring tooling, and embedding security practices into AI feature development. Suited to experienced security engineers with hands-on background in LLM and AI/ML security risks.
Staff level · 8+ years · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Full-time
Pay in the description: $225,000–$340,000
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 3 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (information security analysts). range 1–5
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $165,879 (middle half $117,529–$206,125). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (5)
The role sits at the boundary between 15-1212 (Information Security Analysts) and 15-1252 (Software Developers): the JD emphasizes building tooling and frameworks alongside security assessment, but the primary framing is security ownership and risk governance, so 15-1212 is the primary code.
The JD requires '8+ years of security engineering experience, with at least 2-3 years focused on AI/ML security, LLM security, or security for data-intensive systems' — the 8-year figure is used as the overall years minimum; the 2-3 years AI/ML focus is captured as a must-have skill rather than a separate years figure since it is tied to a domain, not the role overall.
Claude and LLM orchestration frameworks appear in the requirements section but are framed with 'familiarity with' language, which softens them relative to the harder gates; they are marked preferred accordingly.
The salary range ($225,000–$340,000/year) reflects base salary only, as explicitly noted in the posting.
This is a hybrid role (Tue–Thu in-office) at Trustly's San Francisco hub; it is not fully remote.
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