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title: 'Hardware Security Engineer, New Grad (2027) at Together AI'
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# Hardware Security Engineer, New Grad (2027) at Together AI

- **Company:** Together AI
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA
- **Posted:** 2026-10-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-16
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/togetherai/jobs/5238471007

## Job description

## About the Role

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.

## Responsibilities

- 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.
- Assess and improve the security posture of server and accelerator platforms, including firmware update processes, device identity, trusted execution, and hardware-backed cryptography.
- Support the secure platform lifecycle, from device onboarding, provisioning, and inventory through configuration validation and decommissioning.
- Build automation and internal tools in Python, Bash, or similar languages to collect platform telemetry, detect configuration drift, and support incident investigation.
- Build AI-assisted security applications for asset classification, anomaly detection, and detection-and-response workflows.
- Partner with IT and infrastructure teams to implement and enforce identity, access-control, endpoint, and privileged-access security practices.
- Research and evaluate emerging technologies such as confidential computing, remote attestation, hardware roots of trust, and secure device management.
- Write clean, well-documented code, technical designs, test plans, and security findings.

## Requirements

- Actively pursuing a degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field expected by Summer 2027
- Foundational understanding of computer architecture, operating systems, networking, embedded systems, digital logic, or electronics
- Strong programming skills with a proficiency in Python or bash
- Exposure to building AI-assisted applications

## Preferred Qualifications

- Prior security engineering experience through internships, hackathons, or projects
- Coursework, projects, research, or internship experience in hardware security, embedded security, platform security, computer architecture, or secure systems design
- 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

## About Together AI

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.

## Compensation

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.

## Equal Opportunity

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.

Please see our privacy policy athttps://www.together.ai/privacy

## About Together AI

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Together AI is the AI Native Cloud, a full-stack platform for production AI that provides inference, fine-tuning, and GPU compute powered by cutting-edge systems research.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Vipul Ved Prakash (CEO), Ce Zhang (CTO), Tri Dao (Chief Scientist), Chris Ré, Percy Liang

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI Infrastructure / Cloud Computing
- **Target customers**: B2B – AI-native startups (e.g., Cursor, Decagon, Eleven Labs), enterprise SaaS (Salesforce, Zoom, Zomato), and AI researchers.
- **Mission**: “Significantly lower the cost of modern AI systems by co-designing software, hardware, algorithms, and models” — with a commitment to open and transparent AI development.

## Products & Services
- **Serverless Inference**: Fast on-demand inference for open-source models with no infrastructure management.
- **Batch Inference**: Asynchronous processing of massive workloads (up to 30B tokens per model) at reduced cost.
- **Dedicated Model Inference**: Deploy models on dedicated GPU infrastructure for speed and control.
- **Dedicated Container Inference**: GPU infrastructure optimized for generative media (video, audio, image).
- **Fine-Tuning**: Fine-tune open-source models using latest research techniques (improves accuracy, reduces hallucinations).
- **Accelerated Compute**: Self-serve instant clusters to thousands of GPUs, optimized with Together Kernel Collection.
- **Model Shaping**: Tools to accelerate inference, model shaping, and pre-training.
- **Managed Storage**: High-performance object storage and parallel filesystems with zero egress fees.
- **Sandbox**: Fast, secure code sandboxes for AI app/agent development environments.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed; recent Series C reportedly doubled valuation (amount undisclosed) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/together-4)
- **Key Metric**: **Total Funding** – $1.334B (including $800M Series C announced in mid-2026) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/together-4)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Kleiner Perkins, NVIDIA, Salesforce Ventures, Prosperity7 Ventures (Aramco), and 29+ others across rounds.
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - Headcount grew 91% YoY to ~280 employees [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/togethercomputer)
  - Acquired CodeSandbox (Dec 2024) and Refuel.AI (May 2025)
  - Customers include Cursor, Decagon, Eleven Labs, AI21, Hedra, Cartesia, Salesforce, Zoom, Zomato
  - Published nine papers at ICML 2026; open-sourced ParallelKernelBench

## Competitive Advantages
- **Full-stack AI platform** covering inference, fine-tuning, compute, storage, and sandboxes — all integrated.
- **World-class research team** co-designing algorithms, kernels, and hardware (e.g., Tri Dao, co-inventor of FlashAttention).
- **Open-source commitment** and contributions (models, datasets, research) build developer trust and ecosystem lock-in.
- **Cost performance**: Claims 2x faster inference and 60% lower cost vs. alternatives through research-driven optimizations.

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerate the shift to open-source AI by making it economically viable at scale.
- Continue investing in systems research (GPU programming, kernel optimization, model shaping) to improve performance and cost.
- Expand enterprise adoption through dedicated deployments and partnerships.
- Grow the platform’s capabilities (e.g., managed storage, sandboxes) to reduce friction for AI-native builders.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Values include “Do more with less,” “Open and responsible development,” “Empower innovation,” and “Optimizers” — a research-driven, mission-oriented environment.
- **Remote/Hybrid/Office**: Primarily office-based in San Francisco (251 Rhode Island Street) with employees across 16 countries. Office perks include lunch, dinner, snacks, parking/transit stipends, and relocation support.
- **Benefits**: Competitive salary and equity, 401K matching, health/dental/vision insurance, flexible PTO, generous parental leave, life and disability protection.
- **Engineering Culture**: Deep focus on systems research and open-source; engineers work alongside leading AI researchers (e.g., Tri Dao, Ce Zhang). Talent sourced from Apple, Google, Amazon, NVIDIA, Stanford AI Lab.
- **Career Growth**: 53 active job postings (as of mid-2026); roles span ML engineering, platform engineering, research, and go-to-market. High growth trajectory offers rapid advancement.

## Sources
1. [together.ai/about-us](https://www.together.ai/about-us)
2. [together.ai/](https://www.together.ai/)
3. [together.ai/careers](https://www.together.ai/careers)
4. [linkedin.com/company/togethercomputer](https://www.linkedin.com/company/togethercomputer)
5. [cbinsights.com/company/together-4](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/together-4)

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