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title: 'Senior Security Engineer at Nova Intelligence'
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# Senior Security Engineer at Nova Intelligence

- **Company:** Nova Intelligence
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-05-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/novaintelligence/468d5554-e355-4fa6-b7c9-7a4095ee54af

## Job description

Nova Intelligence is building the most powerful AI platform for SAP teams. SAP is the heart of the enterprise: almost every critical business process at the world's largest companies — finance, supply chain, manufacturing, sales — runs on SAP. Our customers use Nova to 3x the productivity of their SAP teams: modernizing legacy code, redesigning business processes, resolving production issues, and more.

Nova Intelligence was founded by AI researchers, repeat entrepreneurs, and the co-inventor of SAP HANA, and has raised $40M from SAP.io http://SAP.io, Accel, Conviction, and Chemistry.

Check out the Launch Video https://player.mux.com/Ji004bNMQjBGUJvK5R4Yet6VTE9yASS6qQVLBwuB9ETI?amp%3Bmetadata-video-title=Nova+-+AI+Platform+for+SAP+Custom+Code&%3Bprimary-color=%23ffffff%29&%3Bvideo-title=Nova+-+AI+Platform+for+SAP+Custom+Code&poster=https%3A%2F%2Fimage.mux.com%2FJi004bNMQjBGUJvK5R4Yet6VTE9yASS6qQVLBwuB9ETI%2Fthumbnail.jpg%3Ftime%3D26%26width%3D1280%26height%3D720%26fit_mode%3Dcrop

## ABOUT THIS ROLE

We're hiring Senior Security Engineers to design, harden, and continuously test the security of the Nova platform. Our mission is to build the most powerful AI platform for SAP — and that includes being the most secure. Nova operates inside the systems that run global business, with broad access and powerful capabilities; the security work is technically deep and central to the product.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

Own platform security architecture. You'll harden the security model of the platform across cloud and (in the future) on-prem deployments — isolation between customers and environments, identity and access policy, secrets and key management, and network controls. You'll work on real problems like preventing cross-service privilege paths, evolving customer-side audit access, maintaining tight scoping of admin credentials, and ensuring the agent's execution sandboxes can run untrusted code safely.

Lead our internal red team. You'll lead and extend our red team work — probing access controls and privilege boundaries, testing agent action boundaries (prompt injection, tool-use abuse, sandbox escape), validating tenant isolation under realistic attack patterns, and stress-testing our auth flows under adversarial pressure.

Solve hard auth and identity problems in SAP. SAP's identity model is idiosyncratic and the customer landscape is complex: federated SSO via IAS or other IdPs, SAML and OAuth flows across multiple systems, RFC connections, technical users, and a long tail of legacy auth patterns. You'll own how identity propagates from the customer's IdP through Nova into their SAP systems.

Raise our internal security baseline. SSO, deployment pipelines, secrets in CI/CD, code review controls, vendor onboarding, internal access. You'll set the standards, drive the implementation, and lead Nova's adherence to the compliance frameworks customers expect (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA). We treat these as the floor, not the ceiling.

Partner with customer security teams. Our enterprise customers run some of the most sophisticated security organizations in the world. You'll be the technical voice in the room with their CISOs, security architects, and DPOs — translating their requirements into platform changes and Nova's design into language their teams can defend internally.

Push the frontier on offensive and defensive AI for SAP. AI agents are uniquely powerful for security work in SAP — finding vulnerabilities in custom ABAP, auditing access patterns, identifying privilege escalation paths in customer landscapes. We use Nova to help customers find weaknesses in their own systems, and we use Nova to study Nova. You'll lead this research and shape it into product.

Represent Nova on security in the SAP community. Write, speak, publish. Security at the AI-meets-SAP intersection is uncharted territory, and there's real work to do in defining the field.

## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- You have deep, hands-on security experience — application security, cloud security (AWS in particular), identity and access management, and the architectural intuition to spot a privilege escalation path two systems away.
- You think adversarially by default, whether your background is offensive (red team, pentest, vulnerability research) or defensive engineering at a place that took it seriously.
- You have informed opinions on AI security: prompt injection, agent action boundaries, tool-use vulnerabilities, sandbox escape, and what changes when agents have persistent infrastructure access.
- You're fluent in the compliance frameworks customers care about (SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, CCPA) — not as the goal, but as a baseline you can drive efficiently before building well past it.
- You communicate clearly with both engineers and executives. Half this job is making security real with platform engineers; the other half is being credible to a CISO who needs to defend our platform internally.
- You have a track record of public technical output — writing, talks, CVEs, open-source contributions. (Strong plus, not required.)

## BACKGROUND WE'D LOVE TO SEE (NONE REQUIRED)

- 5+ years of security engineering, security architecture, or offensive security work
- Hands-on AWS security depth (IAM, KMS, networking, multi-account architectures)
- Designing or hardening multi-tenant SaaS platforms in enterprise contexts
- Leading SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, or comparable certification efforts
- Familiarity with SAP, ABAP, or enterprise application security generally
- Working directly with enterprise customer security teams (CISOs, DPOs, security architects)

## WHY JOIN

You'll work alongside top engineers, AI researchers, and SAP experts on security problems few teams get to touch. What you build protects systems that run inside the world's largest enterprises — and shapes what AI-native security looks like for mission-critical environments as the field matures.

We use Nova to build Nova, and you'll use Nova to attack Nova. You'll be a power user of your own tools, obsessed with finding what breaks before anyone else does.

We're a small, highly talent-dense team. We offer competitive compensation, meaningful equity, and full health, dental, and vision coverage.

If you read this and recognize the role you want, apply — even if you don't match every line.

## About Nova Intelligence

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Nova Intelligence provides an agentic AI platform for SAP teams to document, simplify, build, and test custom code, enabling faster S/4HANA transformation and a clean core.
- **Entity Type**: Private (raised $40M; backed by SAP.iO, Accel, and Chemistry)
- **Headquarters**: New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2024
- **Founders**: Emma Qian (CEO), Samuel Yang (CTO), Prof. Dr. Alexander Zeier (Chief Scientist)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Enterprise AI / SAP modernization
- **Target customers**: Global 2000 companies running SAP (B2B, Enterprise)
- **Mission or purpose**: “Revolutionizing how the world’s largest companies operate – in SAP and beyond” by merging deep SAP expertise with cutting-edge AI.

## Products & Services
- **Nova Platform (Agentic AI for SAP)**: An AI agent platform that accelerates SAP development, documentation, testing, and fit-to-standard analysis. Key capabilities:
  - **AI Coding & Debugging**: Generate and modernize ABAP Cloud and BTP CAP code, debug production issues, and perform unit testing.
  - **Fit-to-Standard Analysis**: Map custom code to SAP standard to reduce complexity and TCO.
  - **Documentation**: Automatically generate and maintain functional and technical documentation.
  - **Security Testing**: Zero-trust security model, automated security checks in CI/CD, dependency scanning, and penetration testing.
  - **Impact Analysis**: Understand how changes affect the entire SAP landscape.
  - **Clean Core Transformation**: Ensure upgrade-safe, standard-first customizations.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed
- **Key Metric**: $40M total funding (announced in 2025/2026)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Accel, Chemistry, SAP.iO (SAP’s venture arm)
- **Growth Signals**: 
  - 110% year-over-year headcount growth (now ~15 employees per LinkedIn)
  - Teams using Nova report 3x productivity boosts and 5x average gains across tasks
  - SOC 2 and GDPR compliant; zero-trust security infrastructure

## Competitive Advantages
- **Deep SAP Expertise**: Co-founded by the co-inventor of SAP HANA (Prof. Dr. Alexander Zeier) and a former Google DeepMind AI researcher (Emma Qian).
- **Silicon Valley + SAP Heartland Blend**: Combines best practices from top VCs with decades of SAP domain knowledge.
- **Security by Design**: Enterprise-grade encryption (TLS 1.3, AES-256), HSM-backed keys, role-based access, and audit logging.
- **Platform Lock-In with Clean Core**: Agents natively enforce SAP’s Clean Core strategy, making upgrades safer and reducing long-term TCO.
- **Speed as a Moat**: Claim to compress weeks of work into hours or days.

## Strategic Focus
- **Accelerating S/4HANA transformation** and reducing custom code complexity for large enterprises.
- **Expanding beyond SAP** into adjacent enterprise systems, as hinted by “in SAP and beyond.”
- **Building a category-defining company** in the $100B+/year SAP ecosystem, with plans to scale engineering, sales, and customer engineering teams.

## Why Work Here
- **Engineering Culture**: Flat, fast, AI-first – every engineer gets unlimited access to Codex/Claude Code. “Every line of code you ship powers systems that move billions of dollars.”
- **Compensation**: Top-of-market cash, meaningful early-stage equity, quarterly performance bonuses.
- **Work Environment**: Hybrid with offices in San Francisco and New York; global travel to meet customers and teammates (Zurich, Munich, Madrid, Mexico City).
- **Perks**: Medical, dental, vision, commuter benefits, annual company offsites.
- **Values**: “Debate fast, commit fully,” “customer obsessed,” “no task is beneath anyone,” and “speed is a moat.”
- **Team Composition**: Small but mighty – work alongside ex-founders, top AI researchers, and SAP veterans.

## Sources
1. [novaintelligence.com](https://www.novaintelligence.com/)
2. [novaintelligence.com/about](https://www.novaintelligence.com/about)
3. [novaintelligence.com/careers](https://www.novaintelligence.com/careers)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/novaintelligence](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/novaintelligence)
5. [linkedin.com/company/novaintelligence](https://www.linkedin.com/company/novaintelligence)

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