About the role
<h3><strong>
About
the Role</strong></h3> <p>As a Hardware Security Engineer, you’ll contribute to building open, transparent, and secure AI systems. You’ll have the opportunity to work on projects that safeguard corporate assets by implementing and operating preventative and reactive security controls while collaborating with teams and stakeholders across the company. We’re looking for an intern that is interested in building AI-assisted security apps.&nbsp;</p> <h3><strong>
Responsibilities</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Design, prototype, and implement security solutions for AI infrastructure across hardware, firmware, operating systems, and cloud services, including BMCs, TPMs, secure boot chains, networking interfaces, and workload identity systems.</li> <li>Assess and improve the security posture of server and accelerator platforms, including firmware update processes, device identity, trusted execution, and hardware-backed cryptography.</li> <li>Support the secure platform lifecycle, from device onboarding, provisioning, and inventory through configuration validation and decommissioning.</li> <li>Build automation and internal tools in Python, Bash, or similar languages to collect platform telemetry, detect configuration drift, and support incident investigation.</li> <li>Build AI-assisted security applications for asset classification, anomaly detection, and detection-and-response workflows.</li> <li>Partner with IT and infrastructure teams to implement and enforce identity, access-control, endpoint, and privileged-access security practices.</li> <li>Research and evaluate emerging technologies such as confidential computing, remote attestation, hardware roots of trust, and secure device management.</li> <li>Write clean, well-documented code, technical designs, test plans, and security findings.</li> </ul> <h3><strong>
Requirements</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Actively pursuing a degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field expected by Summer 2027</li> <li>Foundational understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, networking, embedded systems, digital logic, or electronics</li> <li>Strong programming skills with a proficiency in Python or bash</li> <li>Exposure to building AI-assisted applications</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Preferred
Qualifications</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Prior security engineering experience through internships, hackathons, or projects</li> <li>Coursework, projects, research, or internship experience in hardware security, embedded security, platform security, computer architecture, or secure systems design</li> <li>Experience with one or more of the following: Microcontrollers, FPGA development, board bring-up, JTAG/SWD debugging, serial interfaces, SPI, I2C, UART, PCIe, or Ethernet</li> </ul> <h3><strong>About Together AI</strong></h3> <p>Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, is purpose-built for AI engineers. AI application developers get high-performance inference that scales reliably, fine-tuning and reinforcement learning for creating frontier-level specialized models, and pre-training at massive scale for fully custom intelligence, all around a marketplace of leading open models that teams can run, adapt, and own. Trusted by Cursor, Decagon, ElevenLabs, Salesforce, and Zoom, Together serves 400+ trillion tokens a month.</p> <h3><strong>
Compensation</strong></h3> <p>We offer competitive
compensation, startup equity, health insurance and other competitive
benefits. The US base salary range for this full-time position is: $140,000 - $150,000 + equity +
benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role. Individual
compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job-related knowledge.</p> <h3><strong>Equal Opportunity</strong></h3> <p>Together AI is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is proud to offer equal employment opportunity to everyone regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, veteran status, and more.</p> <p>Please see our privacy policy at<a href="https://www.together.ai/privacy"> https://www.together.ai/privacy</a>&nbsp;</p>
About Together AI
Together AI provides a cloud platform for developing, training, fine-tuning, and deploying generative artificial intelligence models using open-source technologies. Its services include serverless and dedicated model inference, GPU compute infrastructure, managed storage, code sandboxes, and model customization tools that support AI application development and production workloads. The platform also offers APIs and deployment options that enable developers and organizations to build, run, and manage language, image, audio, vision, and code models without maintaining underlying infrastructure.
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Job details
Salary
$140,000 - $150,000
Location
San Francisco, CA
Funding
Total raised
$533.5M
Last stage
Series B
Investors
Founders
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