Infrastructure Security Engineer, Datacenter

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September 14

🏄 California – Remote

Although this job is listed in California, this company may be open to hiring remote in other states.

💵 $200k - $340k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👮‍♂️ Cybersecurity / Security Engineer

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Artificial Intelligence • API

x. ai is a company focused on developing advanced artificial intelligence technologies, specifically through their Grok language models. They offer an API that allows developers to build on their Grok foundation models, which are characterized by state-of-the-art reasoning capabilities. The company is running a public beta program to encourage the use of their API and provides free credits for developers during this period. Their recent release, Grok-2, showcases their cutting-edge advancements in AI language models. x. ai also provides career opportunities for roles related to AI engineering and research, particularly in reasoning and data.

201 - 500 employees

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🔌 API

💰 $10M Series B on 2017-08

📋 Description

• Design and implement secure datacenter architectures, including physical access controls, hardware security modules (HSMs), GPU security configurations, BIOS/UEFI hardening, bare metal provisioning security, and on-prem network segmentation. • Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates with embedded security controls for datacenter provisioning, including secure bare metal deployments. • Conduct regular security assessments, audits, and vulnerability analysis of datacenter infrastructure, servers, storage, networking equipment, GPUs, and BIOS firmware. Implement and manage datacenter security tools and services (e.g., intrusion detection systems, physical monitoring, firmware security scanners, GPU security tools). • Collaborate with operations teams to integrate security best practices into datacenter buildouts, maintenance workflows, and full stack security research. • Monitor and respond to security events and incidents in datacenter environments, including physical breaches and hardware vulnerabilities. • Develop and maintain datacenter security policies, standards, and procedures, covering colocation, owned facilities, GPU/BIOS security, and bare metal provisioning. Stay current with emerging datacenter security threats, hardware vulnerabilities, GPU-specific risks, BIOS exploits, and mitigation strategies for AI workloads.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, or a related field. • 3-5 years of experience in datacenter security or related on-prem infrastructure roles, including vulnerability analysis and full stack security research. • Strong understanding of datacenter security principles, compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001), and best practices for GPU, BIOS, and bare metal security. • Proficiency in on-prem infrastructure management, including servers (e.g., Dell, HPE), networking (e.g., Cisco, Arista), storage systems, and GPU clusters (e.g., NVIDIA). • Experience with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Ansible, Puppet) for secure datacenter automation and bare metal provisioning. • Familiarity with virtualization and containerization technologies (e.g., VMware, Kubernetes) and their security implications in datacenters, including GPU passthrough security. • Knowledge of physical security concepts, access protocols, environmental controls, BIOS security, and vulnerability scanning tools. • Experience with scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash) for automation, tool development, and security research.

🏖️ Benefits

• Base salary is just one part of our total rewards package at xAI, which also includes equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage, access to a 401(k) retirement plan, short & long-term disability insurance, life insurance, and various other discounts and perks.