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Is this posting real?
- This role has been open
- 14 days Obsidian Security's roles stay open a median of 45 days
- Reposted
- No
- Salary listed
- No 0% of Obsidian Security's roles list one
- Ghost-job risk at Obsidian Security
- high 18 stale, 0 reposted of 25 open
- Hiring momentum
- 43 roles opened in the last 90 days ↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
- Last confirmed on the employer's board
- 2026-09-17
Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Obsidian Security's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Obsidian Security.
About this role
As an AI Security Engineer at Obsidian Security in Taiwan, you will focus on identifying and mitigating risks associated with AI and agentic platforms. Your role involves researching emerging threats, developing security models, and building production-grade security products. You will collaborate with various teams to enhance security measures for enterprise customers and ensure the reliability and efficiency of AI security services.
- benefits
- 1/5
- freshness
- 4/5
- career value
- 5/5
- role clarity
- 5/5
- pay transparency
- 0/5
Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Obsidian Security as an employer.
What you need
- Strong software engineering experience building production-quality backend services, cloud-native applications, data platforms, or security products.
- Hands-on programming experience in one or more languages such as Python, Go, Java, Kotlin, or a comparable backend language.
- Experience designing and building scalable APIs, distributed systems, or data-processing pipelines.
- Strong data analysis skills and the ability to investigate complex behavior using SQL or other query languages.
- Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, SaaS platforms, identity systems, authentication, authorization, and OAuth.
- Understanding of security fundamentals, including identities, permissions, access controls, vulnerabilities, attack techniques, and risk assessment.
Nice to have
- Experience building cybersecurity, identity security, SaaS security, threat detection, SIEM, EDR, XDR, or security analytics products.
- Experience researching or developing protections for AI applications, large language models, copilots, or autonomous agents.
- Familiarity with AI security risks such as prompt injection, RAG poisoning, insecure tool use, model abuse, excessive agency, and sensitive-data disclosure.
- Experience with LLM application frameworks, agent protocols, tool integrations, vector databases, or retrieval-augmented generation systems.
- Experience working with SaaS audit logs, identity telemetry, OAuth grants, application configurations, or security events.
Worth weighing
- No salary listed.
- Role involves a mix of security research, data engineering, and product development, which may require a diverse skill set.
- Position is hands-on and may involve rapid learning of new AI technologies and security models.
- The company is scaling rapidly and preparing for an IPO, which may indicate a dynamic work environment.
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Listed by Obsidian Security on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-09-17. PitchMeAI is not the employer.
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