Senior Embedded Security Engineer

About Us: webAI is pioneering the future of artificial intelligence by establishing the first distributed AI infrastructure dedicated to personalized AI. We recognize the evolving demands of a data-driven society for scalability and flexibility, and we firmly believe that the future of AI lies in distributed processing at the edge, bringing computation closer to the source of data generation. Our mission is to build a future where a company's valuable data and intellectual property remain entirely private, enabling the deployment of large-scale AI models directly on standard consumer hardware without compromising the information embedded within those models. We are developing an end-to-end platform that is secure, scalable, and fully under the control of our users, empowering enterprises with AI that understands their unique business. We are a team driven by truth, ownership, tenacity, and humility, and we seek individuals who resonate with these core values and are passionate about shaping the next generation of AI. About the Role: We're building the next generation of decentralized, on-edge AI infrastructure—software that runs securely where data is created, not where it's collected. Our platform enables private, sovereign AI through peer-to-peer networking, edge computing, and modern distributed systems. We're looking for a highly technical Embedded Security Engineer who thrives at the intersection of software engineering and cybersecurity. Rather than operating as a centralized security reviewer, you'll work directly alongside product and platform engineers, influencing architecture, contributing production code, and helping teams build security into the product from day one. This founding role is ideal for someone who thinks like an attacker, engineers like a builder, and enjoys solving difficult security problems alongside developers. You'll serve as a hands-on engineering resource responsible for architecture reviews, threat modeling, security-focused development, and vulnerability remediation across the IDN platform. the embedded security expert for one or more engineering teams while remaining a hands-on contributor throughout the software development lifecycle. Responsibilities: - Live within the engineering team; design and build secure features throughout the software development lifecycle. - Participate in architecture and design reviews, identifying security risks early and collaborating with engineers on practical, scalable solutions. - Contribute production-quality code in Rust and other languages as needed to implement security-critical functionality. - Design and implement secure communication patterns, authentication mechanisms, and cryptographic services for decentralized systems. - Evaluate new product features for security implications and recommend design improvements before implementation begins. - Perform security-focused code reviews with an emphasis on exploitability, resiliency, and secure implementation patterns. - Lead implementation efforts to remediate vulnerabilities discovered through internal testing, penetration testing, or external assessments. - Work with engineering teams to prioritize security improvements while balancing performance, usability, and product requirements. - Design, implement, and improve security controls for peer-to-peer networking, distributed protocols, edge AI workloads, and device-to-device communications. - Serve as the dedicated security engineering partner for the IDN team, influencing architecture, implementation, and vulnerability remediation activities across the platform. - Conduct threat modeling exercises for new platform capabilities, distributed protocols, network services, and architectural changes - Assess security implications of peer discovery, node identity, trust establishment, relay services, NAT traversal, encrypted communications, and distributed trust models. - Evaluate platform resilience against malicious nodes, protocol abuse, unauthorized acc