8 : 1
Engineering openings per security engineering opening at AI-first companies. Elsewhere it is 5 : 1.
Company medians, 119 AI-first and 733 other companies
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Senior security engineers from teams like these.
From draft to production in three moves.
01
No hiring cycle.
A senior security engineer is working inside your team in week one, in your channels, repositories and review queue.
02
The factory builds.
Flightcrew agents write and test each control. Your team merges it through normal review.
03
It stays current.
Models and harnesses change every quarter. The controls change with them.
The work
- Map the environment
- Scope the first controls with your security lead
- Join the review queue
- Spec, write and test each control
- Merge through normal review
- Deploy into your environment
- Track model and harness changes
- Update and re-test each control
- Keep audit evidence current
You have
A senior security engineer inside the team
Production controls in your environment
Controls that keep pace with the stack
01
No hiring cycle.
A senior security engineer is working inside your team in week one, in your channels, repositories and review queue.
- Map the environment
- Scope the first controls with your security lead
- Join the review queue
A senior security engineer inside the team
02
The factory builds.
Flightcrew agents write and test each control. Your team merges it through normal review.
- Spec, write and test each control
- Merge through normal review
- Deploy into your environment
Production controls in your environment
03
It stays current.
Models and harnesses change every quarter. The controls change with them.
- Track model and harness changes
- Update and re-test each control
- Keep audit evidence current
Controls that keep pace with the stack
What AI-first companies are hiring for.
From our analysis of 15,900 job postings across 2,348 companies, including 204 AI-first companies.
1 in 24
AI engineering postings at AI-first companies name any security duty. Elsewhere it is 1 in 7.
97 AI-first and 367 other AI engineering postings
26%
of security engineering openings at AI-first companies name agent, LLM, MCP or prompt-injection work in their responsibilities or requirements. Elsewhere it is 16%.
563 AI-first and 5,596 other postings
2×
AI-first companies name SOC 2 in security postings twice as often as everyone else.
17.9% vs 9.1% of security postings
Source: AKA Security analysis of 13,503 security and 2,423 engineering job postings, August to September 2026.