Job Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.

Job Description

Join the team redefining how the world experiences design.
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Where And How You Can Work

Our flagship campus is in Sydney. We also have a campus in Melbourne and co-working spaces in Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. But you have choice in where and how you work, we trust our Canvanauts to choose the balance that empowers them and their team to achieve their goals.

What You’d Be Doing In This Role

As Canva scales change continues to be part of our DNA. But we like to think that's all part of the fun. So this will give you the flavour of the type of things you'll be working on when you start, but this will likely evolve.
We're building a specialized AI Security capability to address the unique challenges that come with deploying AI and machine learning at scale. As a Staff Security Engineer, you'll operate at the intersection of security engineering and AI innovation - pioneering current approaches to emerging AI security challenges and driving novel research into evolving threats and attack techniques. You'll serve as a technical authority across Canva, setting strategic direction for AI security and defining the frameworks, standards, and secure-by-design patterns that enable safe AI adoption across both our product and broader business landscape.



You'll be working closely with engineering, product, AI research, and business stakeholders in a high-impact role where you'll shape how Canva secures AI both now and for the future.

At The Moment, This Role Is Focused On

- Define the strategic direction and security frameworks for AI systems at scale, and lead the design and implementation of controls across model training pipelines, inference endpoints, and AI-powered features across Canva's platform
- Lead novel research into emerging AI security threats and attack vectors, and drive threat modelling, vulnerability assessments, and penetration testing focused on risks such as prompt injection, model poisoning, and data extraction
- Serve as the technical authority for AI security across Canva by leading security reviews and code assessments for AI use cases, identifying risks and providing actionable recommendations to mitigate potential threats
- Drive the strategy and development of detection rules and response playbooks tailored to AI-specific security incidents and anomalous behaviour, ensuring they scale across Canva’s AI footprint
- Lead organisation-wide AI security standards and best practices by collaborating with stakeholders across the business (including executive leadership) to embed secure-by-design workflows, and mentor and guide other security engineers working on AI initiatives

You're probably a match if

- You bring deep technical expertise in AI security, with a track record of novel research and innovation - and the

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📌 Staff Security Engineer- AI Security (remote across Australia)
🏢 Canva
📍 Australia