About the Role
Security is what earns Chai the trust of the world's largest pharma companies. We're looking for someone to help own and build the security function end to end. You'll represent Chai's security posture to our partners directly, sitting across from their CISOs and cloud security architects on reviews of our compute architecture, tenant isolation, encryption, and key management. You'll drive the changes they surface back into the product and infrastructure and help Chai keep ahead of new risks. You'll be the trusted security partner to our product and inference engineers, reviewing architecture before it's built, shipping security controls, and automating compliance, onboarding, and vendor work.
Responsibilities
- Own and build the security function end to end.
- Represent Chai's security posture to partners directly.
- Review compute architecture, tenant isolation, egress controls, encryption, and key management.
- Drive security changes into product and infrastructure.
- Act as a security partner to product and inference engineers.
- Review architecture for shared inference fleets and per-partner data isolation.
- Ship security controls.
- Automate compliance, onboarding, and vendor work.
Requirements
- 5+ years in security engineering.
- Experience building or meaningfully improving a security program at a high-growth company.
- Ability to write targeted production code (Python, TypeScript).
- Startup or high-growth experience, working close to engineering.
- Credibility and presence to represent Chai on customer security calls with pharma CISOs.
- Comfort owning detection, response, and incident management end to end.
- Familiarity with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 as programs to run well.
- Life sciences or other regulated-industry experience is a bonus.
Skills
- Python
- TypeScript
- Security engineering
- Production code development
- Detection
- Response
- Incident management
- SOC 2
- ISO 27001
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Benefits
- Highly competitive compensation.
About the Company
- Chai is a research lab working on AI to unlock biology.
- Our models design new molecules for new medicines.
- We are changing how biologists develop drugs.
- Our vision is a design suite for molecules, with applications across life sciences, agriculture, materials and beyond.
- Our founders have been at the forefront of this field from the beginning.
- We are backed by Thrive, General Catalyst, OpenAI, Dimension and other tier-one investors.
- We partner with global life sciences companies like Eli Lilly on deals that are transforming industry.
- We are known for talent density, rigorous research and pace of execution.
