Application Security Engineer, AI Security

Application Security Engineer, AI Security ABOUT US: Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life’s work. In today's world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email—with AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users, from individuals to large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money. In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays. ABOUT THE ROLE: Millions of people use Notion — and this number is increasing every day. Our users depend on us to deliver a secure and trustworthy experience, and we value this more than anything. We want to keep building on that trust, while also continuing to amaze our users with the tools they can build in Notion. This is where you come in — to help us forge a strong, reliable path forward to the future. The Notion application is flexible, powerful and always evolving. With a product that needs to scale to meet the needs of many thousands of businesses globally. They rely on us to protect their data and that of their customers. Notion is looking for security engineers that have a passion for securing complex products. As an Application Security Engineer working on AI Security you will be a consultant, advocate and builder that is hyper focused on preventing and eliminating security risk for Notion’s AI products. WHAT YOU'LL ACHIEVE: - Help define the security models for Notion’s products as they ship, giving guidance to engineering and product teams to ensure new features meet strict enterprise security requirements. - Perform hands on testing and develop automated red teaming for AI and agentic features, especially focused on AI specific risks like prompt injection. - Make the secure path the easy path for product teams by providing design guidance and finding architectural solutions that eliminate classes of vulnerabilities. - Provide developers guidance and education on security and privacy best practices that prevent the authoring of vulnerabilities; leverage skills, MCP enabled tools, and hooks to help prevent vulnerabilities for developers using agentic coding tools. - Participate in and drive mitigation strategies during AppSec related incident responses. SKILLS YOU'LL NEED TO BRING: - Security Architecture expertise: You have at least 6+ years of experience working with product teams to design and/or build secure software. - Thoughtful problem-solving: For you, problem-solving starts with a clear and accurate understanding of the context. You can decompose tricky problems and work towards a clean solution, by yourself or with teammates. You're comfortable asking for help when you get stuck. - Impact-driven approach to technology: You use technology to drive measurable user and business outcomes, not as an end in itself. You stay current with tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and other AI-assisted development environments, and you’re pragmatic about choosing what delivers the most value. - Pragmatic and business-oriented: You care about business impact and prioritize projects accordingly. As a product security expert you communicate and facilitate understand of the threat model and risks with the goal to balance the right security investments with the right bottom line outcomes. - Empathetic communication: You communicate nuanced ideas clearly, whether you're explaining technical decisions in writing or brainstorming in real time. In disagreements, you engage thoughtfully with other perspectives and compromise when needed. - Startup mentality: You are comfortable navigating the fast moving, unstructured nature of a hyper-growth startup. You are self-moti ... (truncated, view full listing at source)