6Top picks at the biggest namesThe best-paid posting at each, from the one in our headline down

Netflix Platform Security up to $900K↗ “Experience using AI agents to automate security research.” NVIDIA Principal Hardware Security Architect, Advanced Technologies and Threat Modeling up to $431K↗ “AI-Accelerated Discovery: Employ AI and other new tools to accelerate the discovery and triage of hardware vulnerabilities. Leverage AI systems to uncover deep, previously invisible flaws at scale and shift from manual triage to AI-driven direction.” Anthropic Head of Vulnerability Disclosure & Security Community up to $395K↗ “Build the function: hire and mentor a future analyst, and put in place the tooling and AI-assisted triage the program needs to scale” KPMG Director, Cyber Defense Agentic Security Architect up to $371K↗ “Lead the design and implementation of enterprise-scale, agentic AI solutions across the entire cyber defense lifecycle, from threat detection and response to continuous exposure management” Okta Senior Director, GRC up to $363K↗ “Drive AI-first Transformation: Execute a vision to integrate AI and agentic tools into daily GRC operations (automated evidence collection, automated risk scoring, intelligent policy mapping, and continuous audit readiness)” JPMorganChase Applied AI Transformation Director - Identity Access Management up to $325K↗ “Lead IAM’s transition to AI-native and agent-enabled ways of working. Turn high-value opportunities into measurable improvements in quality, speed, precision, and business impact.”

73Cloud & Infrastructure Security postings in our trackerThe 6 best-paid below

Netflix Platform Security up to $900K↗ “Experience using AI agents to automate security research.” OpenAI Principal Software Engineer, Infrastructure Security up to $510K↗ “Leverage frontier models and agents to develop automation and detection tooling to continuously identify and mitigate risks in large-scale cloud and on-prem environments.” Harvey Staff Software Engineer, Secure Execution up to $346K↗ “You'll lead development of a platform for agents to perform security work, while shaping how agents are sandboxed across our product and internal platforms.” Block (Square/Cash App) Senior Security Engineer, Platform Security up to $327K↗ “Demonstrated fluency with AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or similar agentic coding tools) in real production work” Pinterest Sr. Security Software Engineer, Security Operations up to $320K↗ “Apply AI to accelerate engineering and security analysis while defining appropriate validation, data-handling and accountability practices.” NVIDIA Senior Platform Security Engineer – Device Trust, Attestation and Secure Browser up to $311K↗ “Build SRE agents for security platforms, design, code, and operate agentic automation that detects degradation, triages alerts, correlates telemetry, executes safe remediation, and reduces toil across attestation, endpoint, and browser services.”

97Security Leadership postings in our trackerThe 6 best-paid below

Netskope VP, Sales Engineering NAM up to $635K↗ “Identify and implement opportunities to use AI, automation, data, and intelligent workflows to transform discovery, technical qualification, solution design, POV execution, and SE productivity.” Anthropic Threat Intel Manager, Model Exploitation & Fraud up to $455K↗ “Drive the redesign of triage for a very high-volume detection pipeline: partner with investigators and engineering to build abuse signals, clustering, and agentic investigation workflows that separate sophisticated actors from noise” Anthropic Engineering Manager, GRC Platform up to $405K↗ “Design and deploy agentic AI workflows that extend team capacity, using Claude to serve as a virtual GRC analyst to automate evidence analysis, monitor control effectiveness, draft audit responses, interpret policy documents.” TikTok USDS Head of Advanced Threat Management up to $397K↗ “You will lead the team into an AI-enabled future where Agentic AI powers the entire threat management lifecycle: from autonomous detection engineering and real-time case enrichment to automated incident response.” Anthropic Head of Vulnerability Disclosure & Security Community up to $395K↗ “Build the function: hire and mentor a future analyst, and put in place the tooling and AI-assisted triage the program needs to scale” Okta Senior Director, GRC up to $363K↗ “Drive AI-first Transformation: Execute a vision to integrate AI and agentic tools into daily GRC operations (automated evidence collection, automated risk scoring, intelligent policy mapping, and continuous audit readiness)”

203Detection & SOC postings in our trackerThe 6 best-paid below

Bridgewater Associates Staff AI Agentic Security Engineer up to $600K↗ “Design, develop, and deploy autonomous agents for threat detection, alert triage, vulnerability management, and incident response… Replace manual runbooks with intelligent agents that reason, act, and escalate.” Anthropic Security Software Engineer, Detection & Response Platform up to $405K↗ “Build AI-powered platform responsible for all aspects of D&R capabilities from detection development to incident response” Anthropic Staff / Senior Software Engineer, Security Fusion Platform up to $405K↗ “We use Claude throughout our engineering workflow and expect you to as well.” Perplexity Member of Technical Staff (Software Engineer, Security) up to $405K↗ “This role focuses on engineering security tools and internal AI-driven agents that improve detection and response, vulnerability management, and the overall security posture of our products and infrastructure.” OpenAI Security Engineer, Insider Threat Detection & Response up to $385K↗ “Collaborate on cutting-edge AI research, and use AI to improve OpenAI’s Security posture.” Thomson Reuters Distinguished Engineer, AI Threat Defense up to $368K↗ “Proven experience architecting or delivering AI-assisted detection and response within a mature 24/7 SOC and/or CIRT.”

148AppSec & Product Security postings in our trackerThe 6 best-paid below

Anthropic Staff+ Application Security Engineer up to $485K↗ “We use Claude as our primary tool across every part of the job: it drives our static analysis, drafts and fixes vulnerabilities as pull requests, performs first-line bug bounty triage, and assists threat modeling for design reviews.” Anthropic Staff+ Application Security Engineer - M&A up to $485K↗ “The expectation is the same too: we use Claude as our primary tool, and you're expected to automate the repeatable parts of diligence and integration as you go, so each acquisition is easier than the last.” Mercor Security Engineer, Application Security up to $400K↗ “We use AI heavily in our own security work. You should be comfortable building alongside AI code-gen tools, using LLMs to accelerate code review and threat modeling, and automating away the repetitive work that slows AppSec programs down.” Anthropic Applied AI Architect, Cyber Specialist up to $400K↗ “Comfort with Python, CI/CD, and cloud environments, plus hands-on experience using LLMs for security work such as code review, vulnerability discovery, triage, or investigation” Target Principal Engineer - Application Security (AI security, Pen Testing, DevSecOps) up to $303K↗ “Experience leveraging AI and Generative AI technologies to improve engineering productivity, security operations, or software development workflows” Aurora Innovation Staff Application Security Engineer up to $303K↗ “Help build and maintain the application security program and its tooling, using AI to scale investigation while validating results.”

27Security Architecture postings in our trackerThe 6 best-paid below

Lambda Staff Security Architect up to $465K↗ “Pioneer AI-powered architectural security capabilities leveraging Lambda's hosted LLMs for automated threat modeling, automated policy validation, and data discovery” NVIDIA Principal Hardware Security Architect, Advanced Technologies and Threat Modeling up to $431K↗ “AI-Accelerated Discovery: Employ AI and other new tools to accelerate the discovery and triage of hardware vulnerabilities. Leverage AI systems to uncover deep, previously invisible flaws at scale and shift from manual triage to AI-driven direction.” KPMG Director, Cyber Defense Agentic Security Architect up to $371K↗ “Lead the design and implementation of enterprise-scale, agentic AI solutions across the entire cyber defense lifecycle, from threat detection and response to continuous exposure management” Accenture Cybersecurity Forward Deployed Engineer - FDE Senior Manager up to $366K↗ “Agentic coding is not a supporting skill for this role—it is the primary method of delivery. You use Claude Code, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot as your standard operating environment.” Cadence AI Security Architect up to $306K↗ “Development of Agent and Agentic AI for security use cases” Cisco AI Security Research Engineer up to $293K↗ “it defines what secure AI looks like, validates that Cisco meets it, and helps teams get there faster, including by using AI for security itself.”

43Vulnerability Management postings in our trackerThe 6 best-paid below

OpenAI Enterprise Security Engineer, Vulnerability Management up to $445K↗ “You will also build security capabilities and automation, use AI agents to solve practical problems, and help shape how enterprise security operates as agents become a larger part of everyday work.” Tanium Senior Security Engineer, Customer Transparency up to $293K↗ “Experience applying AI tooling to security work, with an informed view of where it helps and where it manufactures noise” Palo Alto Networks Principal Infosec Engineer – Product Security Incident Response up to $271K↗ “Experience leveraging AI, machine learning, or Generative AI/LLM frameworks to scale vulnerability triage, automate deep-dive code analysis, and design next-generation defensive workflows.” Citi Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Senior Program Management Lead up to $254K↗ “Drive adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI), automation, predictive analytics, and data-driven insights to improve program governance, risk management, executive reporting, operational efficiency, and decision-making.” Palo Alto Networks Senior Staff Information Security Engineer – AI & Attack Surface Management up to $245K↗ “Design and develop AI-powered capabilities that automate security investigations, identify root causes, recommend remediation actions, and enable engineers and analysts to quickly understand security exposures, business impact, and remediation guidance.” GE Vernova Principal Product Security Incident Responder (m/f) up to $245K↗ “Deploy AI-powered tooling — automate vulnerability scoring, incident triage, and situational awareness to meet the growing volume of threats driven by large language models, autonomous agentic systems, and adversaries targeting operational technology (OT) environments.”

30Identity & Access postings in our trackerThe 6 best-paid below

Netflix Support Solutions Engineer (L5) - Security, Privacy and Assurance up to $410K↗ “Hands-on use of AI coding assistants / agentic tools (Claude Code, Cursor, MCP) to troubleshoot, automate, and accelerate support work, plus judgment for where GenAI speeds resolution vs. where it doesn’t.” Roblox Principal Security Software Engineer, IAM up to $385K↗ “AI fluency: you use AI tools in your daily workflow, understand LLM capabilities and limitations, and can reason about what it means to give an AI agent an identity and permissions.” Harvey Staff Security Software Engineer, IAM up to $340K↗ “Fluency with AI: you use AI-assisted development tools effectively while applying strong engineering judgment, and you design agentic workflows that automate repetitive toil and improve how teams operate.” JPMorganChase Applied AI Transformation Director - Identity Access Management up to $325K↗ “Lead IAM’s transition to AI-native and agent-enabled ways of working. Turn high-value opportunities into measurable improvements in quality, speed, precision, and business impact.” Ro Staff Software Engineer - Identity and Privacy up to $311K↗ “Experience using agentic coding tools to improve development velocity, reduce workflow friction, automate repetitive tasks, and increase system visibility—while maintaining strong engineering judgment and ownership of outcomes.” Roblox Senior Security Software Engineer, IAM up to $307K↗ “AI fluency: You actively use AI tools in your daily workflow, understand LLM capabilities and limitations, and can reason about what it means to give an AI agent an identity and permissions.”

74GRC & Risk postings in our trackerThe 6 best-paid below

Anthropic Staff+ Software Engineer, GRC Platform up to $405K↗ “You will lead your own projects end to end, and you will put Claude to work as an extension of the team through agentic workflows for evidence collection, analysis, and continuous monitoring.” Anthropic Staff+ Security Engineer, Risk Engineering up to $405K↗ “Design and build AI-native risk tooling that uses Claude to classify incoming risks, augment triage, and continuously sense changes in our risk landscape as teams ship” Anthropic Security Controls Assurance Lead up to $345K↗ “Use Claude and other LLMs as daily working tools, and have grounded, specific views on which audit and assurance workflows AI can run today and which it can't yet.” Anthropic Controls Specialist, Security GRC up to $345K↗ “Building with Claude is a normal part of the job: drafting and mapping controls, testing evidence, and monitoring control health, with you deciding where human judgment stays in the loop.” Block (Square/Cash App) Senior GRC Engineer up to $327K↗ “You'll build the data pipelines, integrations, and agentic AI workflows that turn manual governance processes into products that run continuously, produce measurable results, and hold up to audit end to end.” OpenAI Security Program Manager up to $310K↗ “Use AI and automation to organize information, surface gaps, improve documentation, route work, and track follow-through, with appropriate handling of sensitive information and human review of risk decisions.”

31Incident Response & Forensics postings in our trackerThe 6 best-paid below

Block (Square/Cash App) Senior Security Engineer, Detection & Response up to $327K↗ “An established AI-assisted workflow and actively develop AI-based systems and processes that improve incident coordination and case management.” Stripe Security Incident Response Manager, Abuse Operations up to $283K↗ “Partner cross-functionally with security, data science, legal, and policy teams to build agentic response solutions, refine KPIs, and deliver clear incident reporting.” 1Password Staff Security Engineer, Security Incident Response up to $278K↗ “Design and build AI-assisted and automated systems that improve how quickly and consistently the team can triage, investigate, and contain incidents.” Microsoft Principal Security Operations Engineer — Quantum Security & IT Operations up to $275K↗ “Define and drive the requirements, architecture, operating model, and prioritized engineering backlog for an AI-enabled QSIT SOC, covering signal enrichment, triage, investigation, response recommendations, analyst-in-the-loop controls, auditability, and sensitive-data handling.” AT&T Lead Cybersecurity – Insider Risk Analyst (Telemetry, Insider Risk Detection, and AI-Driven Security Operations) up to $237K↗ “Implement AI-assisted monitoring and analytics to improve correlation, enrichment, prioritization, and triage of alerts; reduce manual effort and improve time to decision.” Microsoft Senior Security Analyst — Cyber Defense Investigations, Escalations up to $235K↗ “Leverage AI and Copilot technologies to accelerate triage, evidence collection, and analysis, helping the team stay ahead of attackers operating at machine speed.”

63Offensive & Red Team postings in our trackerThe 6 best-paid below

Anthropic Security Engineer, Offensive Security up to $320K↗ “Contribute to AI-assisted security testing tooling and workflows.” Replit Offensive Security Engineer up to $313K↗ “Perform offensive testing on LLM-backed applications and agentic AI workflows… build AI-assisted testing tools to automate the discovery of common bug classes.” CACI Senior AI/ML Software Engineer, Cyber Network Operations up to $290K↗ “Design, develop, and enhance software solutions that leverage AI/ML models.” H Horizon3.ai Staff Attack Engineer, AI/LLM up to $275K↗ “You will break AI and agentic systems and turn that research into automated attacks inside NodeZero, our autonomous pentesting platform.” Microsoft Senior / Principal Security Engineer — Windows Security (Penetration Testing) up to $275K↗ “Review features and code for security defects and architectural risk using agents and automated tools built by you and others” Microsoft Principal Penetration Tester up to $275K↗ “Applies AI and automation to scale reconnaissance, discovery and testing.”

44Threat Intel & Research postings in our trackerThe 6 best-paid below

Semgrep Senior/Staff Security Researcher up to $319K↗ “Make LLMs viable for security-critical work. Engineer agentic pipelines and prompts that are precise, cost-aware, and trustworthy: atomic, well-scoped steps grounded in deterministic context.” Palo Alto Networks Sr. Principal Cybersecurity Researcher – Rapid Response (Unit 42) up to $304K↗ “Experience building capabilities, which leverage AI, to improve the speed, quality, and breath of emerging threat intelligence ingests and outputs, moving the Rapid Response capability towards a more proactive and scalable program.” Microsoft Principal Strategist — Threat Intelligence & Protection up to $296K↗ “Set the strategy for using AI to improve the speed, scale, and quality of intelligence production and delivery.” Censys Senior Security Researcher up to $278K↗ “Hands-on experience with agentic systems for offensive security. You have built, evaluated, or operated LLM-powered attack agents using autonomous pentest frameworks such as: HackSynth, RedTeamLLM, CAI, PentAG, and successors; AI-assisted vulnerability research pipelines, or multi-agent adversary emulation tooling. You also have demonstrated understanding of the failure modes of this agentic tooling” Google Staff Technical Threat Investigator, Trust and Safety Intel Investigations up to $274K↗ “Define the technical strategy and design for technology-enabled automation, building modular, production-grade SQL and Python pipelines, Large Language Model (LLM)/agentic workflows, and evaluation frameworks to support proactive threat discovery” Elastic GenAI Security – Principal Security Research Engineer up to $253K↗ “You should have experience using AI-assisted development tools and modern AI/ML frameworks. These tools help you accelerate up feature development. They also help you debug complex systems and optimize existing codebases. You will generate telemetry, conduct threat research, and assist with detection engineering workflows.”

56Security Platform & Tooling postings in our trackerThe 6 best-paid below

Apple Senior Software Engineer - Security up to $308K↗ “Experience designing, building, and operating agentic systems and LLM-integrated applications in production including prompt engineering, orchestration, and evaluation of model outputs” Adobe Staff Security Data Engineer up to $302K↗ “Evaluate and introduce useful platform innovations, including AI-assisted engineering and operational automation. Validate outputs, protect sensitive security data, measure improvements, and help partner teams adopt proven approaches.” JPMorganChase Principal Software Engineer - Security Platforms up to $285K↗ “Architects and governs agentic AI-enabled engineering workflows (using enterprise-authorized tools within the work environment) to improve delivery speed, code quality, and operational outcomes at scale” a16z Partner 20, Staff Security Engineer, AI & Security Platform up to $284K↗ “Use AI as a first-class building block - LLM-augmented analysis, agentic automations, models, context, and evals - and design for compounding leverage” AbbVie Principal Agentic AI Security Engineer up to $269K↗ “Architect and build AI agent systems for security operations -- autonomous detection, investigation, response, threat hunting, vulnerability analysis, and risk assessment… you build with agents, not just build agents.” Goldman Sachs Technology Risk - Vice President, Agentic Systems Engineer / Technical Lead, New York up to $250K↗ “As a Vice President within our Engineering organization, you will lead the design and development of production-grade agentic AI systems that automate complex business and cybersecurity workflows across the firm.”