Security Engineer

<p><strong>About Hark</strong></p> <p>Hark is an artificial intelligence company building advanced, personalized intelligence. One that is proactive, multimodal, and capable of interacting with the world through speech, text, vision, and persistent memory.</p> <p>We're pairing that intelligence with next-generation hardware to create a universal interface between humans and machines. While today's AI largely operates through chat boxes and decade-old devices, Hark is focused on what comes next: agentic systems that interact naturally with people and the real world.</p> <p>To get there, we're developing multimodal models and next-generation AI hardware together - designed from the ground up as a single, unified interface for a new era of intelligent systems.</p> <p><strong>About the Role&nbsp;</strong></p> <p>We're hiring a Member of Technical Staff (Security Engineer) to own security engineering at Hark. You'll threat-model our systems, harden our cloud and product infrastructure, build detection capabilities, and lead incident response when things go wrong. As AI agents become a core part of our product, you'll also be on the frontier of LLM and agent security — a space with very few established playbooks.</p> <p>This role is hands-on;&nbsp; you'll be building and operating, not managing or auditing.</p> <p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Threat-model Hark's infrastructure, product, and agent/LLM attack surfaces.</li> <li>Harden cloud infrastructure (EKS, IAM, network access paths) and review IaC for misconfigurations and vulnerabilities.</li> <li>Build and maintain detection and alerting pipelines; lead triage and containment during incidents.</li> <li>Partner with engineering to embed security into the development lifecycle.</li> <li>Define and evolve Hark's security posture as the product and team scale.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Requirements</strong></p> <ul> <li>4–8 years of hands-on security engineering experience.</li> <li>Deep fluency in cloud security (AWS/GCP, IAM, Kubernetes, network hardening).</li> <li>Experience with detection engineering and incident response — you've triaged real alerts and contained real incidents.</li> <li>Ability to read and review infrastructure-as-code (Pulumi, Terraform, or similar) for security issues.</li> <li>Genuine curiosity about LLM and agent security — this is new territory and we want someone excited to figure it out.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Bonus Qualifications</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience at a cloud security company (Wiz, Orca, Datadog, Snyk) or a security-forward startup (Stripe, Figma, Ramp, Netflix).</li> <li>Familiarity with zero-trust networking (Tailscale, Cloudflare, HashiCorp Vault).</li> <li>Prior exposure to AI/agent security threat modeling.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Compensation</strong></h3> <p>The US base salary range for this full-time position is between $150,000 - $300,000 annually.</p> <p>The pay offered for this position may vary based on several individual factors, including job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package may also include additional</p>