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At Twelve Labs, we're not just building technology; we're pioneering the future. We're developing groundbreaking multimodal foundation models that understand videos with human-like comprehension, setting new standards in video-language modeling. Our innovations are transforming how the world interacts with and analyzes media, creating capabilities previously thought impossible.
Backed by an impressive $107 million in Seed and Series A funding, we've earned the trust of top-tier venture capital firms like NVIDIA’s NVentures, NEA, Radical Ventures, and Index Ventures, alongside visionary AI founders such as Fei-Fei Li, Silvio Savarese, and Alexandr Wang. Headquartered in the vibrant innovation hub of San Francisco, with a vital APAC presence in Seoul, our global footprint reflects our commitment to worldwide impact.
We are a diverse, global team where unique journeys and experiences fuel constant challenge to the status quo. If you're driven by a mission to push technological boundaries and eager to make a profound impact, join us. Be part of the revolution in video understanding and multimodal AI.
Ignite Your Career as a Staff Security Engineer at Twelve Labs
Are you a seasoned security professional eager to tackle emerging threats at the cutting edge of AI? Twelve Labs is searching for a Staff Security Engineer to play a pivotal role in maturing and scaling our security program. This isn't a typical SOC role – you won't be tethered to an alert queue. Instead, you'll be a hands-on architect and builder, directly shaping our security posture across a broad and exciting scope.
You’ll work side-by-side with our lead security engineer, moving fluidly across application security, robust cloud infrastructure, agile CI/CD pipelines, and the nascent, complex landscape of AI/ML-specific threats. This is your chance to deeply understand systems, identify critical risks, and engineer innovative controls that make security a seamless, natural part of how we build and ship revolutionary video AI.
As a fast-moving AI company, we're navigating uncharted territory, securing model weights, ML pipelines, and intricate training infrastructure, alongside more traditional security domains. If you thrive on emerging threats, crave deep impact, and want to build security where no blueprint exists, this role is for you.
Location: We are currently only considering candidates based in the Pacific Time Zone (PT).
This role requires the ability to travel up to 10% annually for conferences, off-site meetings, and business events. You may also need to participate in on-site interviews and/or in-person onboarding processes.
What You'll Do & The Impact You'll Make
Strategic Security Leadership: Collaborate closely with the lead security engineer to identify critical risks, build robust controls, and drive key security initiatives across the entire organization.
Offensive & Defensive Security: Conduct comprehensive security assessments, penetration testing, and meticulous code reviews to proactively identify and remediate vulnerabilities across our applications and infrastructure.
Shift-Left Security: Integrate advanced security tooling and controls directly into our CI/CD pipelines and software development workflows, embedding security early without compromising development velocity.
Cloud Fortification: Design, implement, and enforce cutting-edge cloud security architecture within our AWS environment, focusing on IAM, WAF, network segmentation, encryption, and real-time runtime threat detection.
Detection & Response: Develop and continuously enhance our security monitoring, logging, and alerting capabilities to ensure rapid incident detection and response.
Incident Management: Participate actively in the security on-call rotation, providing expert assistance with incident response and investigation when needed.
Compliance & Governance: Contribute significantly to compliance efforts across frameworks like SOC 2, GDPR, and CMMC/NIST, including audit support and policy development.
Pioneering AI Security: Spearhead efforts to secure our AI/ML pipelines, critical model training infrastructure, and invaluable model artifacts, including weights and deployment code.
Automation & Tooling: Build and maintain internal security tooling and automation solutions to scale our program efficiently without proportional headcount growth.
Cross-Functional Partnership: Embed security best practices by partnering directly with engineering, infrastructure, and IT teams throughout development and delivery workflows.
What You'll Bring
Educational Foundation: Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or equivalent practical experience.
Extensive Experience: 8+ years of hands-on security experience, demonstrating expertise across multiple domains rather than a single specialty.
AWS Cloud Mastery: Proven experience with cloud infrastructure security on AWS, including multi-account design, IAM, network segmentation, and runtime threat detection.
Core Security Expertise: Solid understanding of Linux, networking, security monitoring, intrusion detection and response, authentication and access control, and robust security protocols.
Application Security Prowess: Proven experience with web application security assessments and penetration testing.
Infrastructure as Code: Experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code (IaC)/configuration management tools.
Compliance Acumen: Familiarity with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2, GDPR, and CMMC, including practical audit support.
Security Tooling Development: Experience building internal security tooling to enhance efficiency and coverage.
Emerging AI/ML Security: Familiarity with securing AI/ML pipelines, model training infrastructure, or model artifacts (e.g., weights, serving infrastructure, or deployment code).
Leadership & Communication: Strong communication skills and the ability to drive complex security initiatives cross-functionally and influence without direct authority.
Bonus Points If You Have
Hands-on experience securing Kubernetes environments.
Practical experience implementing and administering a cloud security platform (like Wiz or Tenable) for security posture management, workload protection, and vulnerability visibility.
Direct offensive security or red team experience.
Worked at an AI or ML company and possess a deep understanding of the unique threat landscape surrounding model artifacts and pipelines.
Passionately run a home lab or pursue self-directed security research in your spare time.
Why You'll Love Working Here
🤝 An open, inclusive, and collaborative culture where every voice is valued.
🚀 Work closely with a mission-driven team on truly cutting-edge AI technology that's changing the world.
🏥 Comprehensive full health, dental, and vision benefits for your well-being.
✈️ Extremely flexible PTO and parental leave policy, plus our office is closed the week of Christmas and New Years.
🛂 VISA support where applicable, welcoming global talent.