GoKawiilYC-backed Tinfoil hiring applied AI security engineer in San Francisco
Tinfoil, a Y Combinator-backed security research lab building a private, verifiable AI cloud, is hiring an Applied AI Security Engineer for its San Francisco office, requiring in-person work at least three days a week. The role involves guiding enterprise and AI lab customers through technical discovery and deployment, helping them verify Tinfoil's security guarantees, and feeding customer insights back to product and engineering teams. Tinfoil counts DuckDuckGo, Mozilla, Google DeepMind, Trail of Bits, Red Hat and Canonical among its customers or research collaborators.
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The hire signals Tinfoil is scaling its go-to-market efforts for secure, verifiable AI compute as demand grows from regulated industries and privacy-conscious organizations. Positioning the role as a bridge between sales, product and research suggests the company wants customer deployment challenges to directly shape its roadmap. The involvement of major tech and security firms as customers or research partners could indicate growing enterprise appetite for verifiable privacy guarantees in AI infrastructure.
- Tinfoil is hiring an Applied AI Security Engineer based in San Francisco, in-office at least three days weekly.
- The role bridges sales, product, engineering and research, guiding enterprise customers through secure AI deployment.
- Tinfoil's customer and research base includes DuckDuckGo, Mozilla, Google DeepMind, Trail of Bits, Red Hat and Canonical.
Source: news.ycombinator.com, 2026-11-11
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