Application Security Engineer, Synthesia
+ Stock options and bonus
AI video creation platform
Posted today
AI video creation platform
201-500 employees
Posted today
+ Stock options and bonus
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone to make video content - without cameras, microphones or studios.
Role
Who you are
- If you’re passionate about ethical use of AI, have experience in driving organizational wide application or product security programs, can dive deep technically with engineers and researchers and can communicate product risk tradeoffs clearly and with empathy, this is for you
- You have 5+ years of application security experience including design level guidance/threat modeling, code review and application security testing
- You have been part of the AppSec team for a fast-growing company and owned driving and scaling the program
- You have prior experience in understanding the unique security challenges posed by SaaS products
- You can read, and if required even write, production code in Python and Typescript, make iterative improvements, and identify and fix security vulnerabilities
- You have a track record of implementing automation in a security context
- You have built strong positive relationships with internal customer engineering teams as an application or product security engineer
- You have worked with product managers and engineers on balancing risks with product priorities such as velocity and user friction
- You have prior experience in understanding cloud security considerations for product engineering teams, particularly within AWS
What the job involves
- As an Application Security Engineer, you will join a small team of security engineers supporting the Product Engineering and Research and Development (RnD) departments
- You’ll work closely with product managers, engineers and researchers to help shape and ship secure by default product features
- Driven and impact-focused, you will take the initiative to communicate effectively with product managers and teams, ensuring alignment and addressing potential issues promptly
- As a member of a small team, you’ll also help set the strategy and direction for scaling the company wide application security program
- This is an opportunity to help actually influence how generative AI products are designed and built with security, ethics and AI safety at the forefront
- Building and maintaining partnerships with specific product engineering teams, as a reasonable, friendly and effective security advocate
- Leading threat modeling of top engineering priorities with security impact, supporting engineers in reviewing pull requests, weighing in on security impacting implementations, and answering ad-hoc application security questions
- Building guidance and implementing secure by default patterns/paved roads
- Contributing to improving and scaling our secure software development program
- Co-ordinating penetration testing and bug bounty programs
- Participating in product security incident response
- Supporting our Corporate Security team who oversees general Security Operations on any area overlapping with application security
Our take
Video is an integral part of companies’ marketing strategies, and the adoption of synthetic media has grown in popularity. As organisations are investing in videos, startups are building platforms to support the process. Synthesia is an AI-powered video generation platform that saves enterprises up to 100x the cost and time of producing a video.
The company leverages deep learning to simulate real videos and real actors without the need for costly infrastructure like camera crews, actors, cameras, studios, and a lengthy post-production process. Synthesia’s first product STUDIO launched in public beta in the summer of 2020 and it is now used by 30,000+ companies, including the BBC, Teleperformance, Amazon, and Reuters.
Notably, Prof. Matthias Niessner, one of the co-founders of the company, is behind some of the most well-recognised research projects in the field Deep Video Portraits and Face2Face. The company's intuitive interface has grown to become the #1 rated video creation platform, proving its strong ability to capitalise on the growing AI in media market – which is estimated to be worth $99.48 Billion by 2030.
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40% female employees
139% employee growth in 12 months
Company
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Opportunities to learn
"Ownership is key to how everyone works at Synthesia. Over the past 18 months since joining, I have been given ownership of a vast array of exciting..."
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Jun 2023
$90m
SERIES C
Dec 2021
$50m
SERIES B
Total funding: $156.7m
Company benefits
- đź“ŤYou will work in a hybrid setting with offices London, New York, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Munich & Zurich!
- đź’¸ Stock options in our fast-growing Series C start-up
- 🌴 25 days of annual leave + public holidays in the country where you are based
- 🎉 Fun culture with regular socials and company retreats (Portugal, Copenhagen & Barcelona!)
- 🍫 Office snacks and regular tasty lunches!
- 🤑 Generous referral scheme
- 🚀 A huge opportunity for career growth as you’ll help shape a market-defining product
- 🏥 Private Medical Insurance (Medical History Disregarded basis) including mental health support, dental & vision, cashback and gym discounts.
- 🍼 Paid parental leave entitling primary caregivers to 16 weeks of full pay, and secondary 5 weeks of full pay.
- 🧓 Pension contribution/salary sacrifice 🇬🇧
- 🚲 Cycle to work scheme (London) 🇬🇧
Company values
- Outcomes over Inputs & Plans: We value outcomes and iterations, not inputs
- Be an Owner: Acting like an owner is encouraged: Ask questions, challenge decisions and show leadership
- Make the Journey Fun: We strive for an informal, low hierarchy culture where we can all be our true selves.
- Default to Simple:Â Simple is better - until it's not. But in most cases we can stick to very simple solutions
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
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Leadership
Victor Riparbelli
(CEO)Experience working on growth and product at Aller Media and Founders. Co-founded Immersive Futures in 2016 and Coincall in 2017.
Steffen Tjerrild
(Co-Founder & COO & CFO)Former Investment Manager at Kukula Capital and Business Developer at Founders.
Matthias Niessner
(Co-Founder)Computer science professor at the Technical University Munich.
Lourdes Agapito
(Co-Founder)Professor of 3D Computer Vision at University College London.
People progressing
Joined Synthesia in June 2022 as a Customer Support Associate, promoted to a different department as a Customer Onboarding Manager in January 2024.
Joined Synthesia in April 2022 as an SDR. Promoted in January 2023 to a Senior SDR, and promoted again in January 2024 to a Strategic SDR lead for EMEA.
Joined Synthesia in April 2023, promoted to a different department as a Customer Success Manager in May 2024.
Joined Synthesia in October 2021 as a Customer Success Manager, promoted to a different department as an Account Executive in October 2022.
Joined Synthesia in December 2021 as a Customer Success Manager, promoted to a Senior Customer Success Manager in December 2022.
Joined Synthesia in December 2020 as a Full Stack Engineer, promoted to an Engineering Lead in December 2022.
Joined Synthesia in January 2018 as a Research Engineer, promoted to a Senior Research Engineer in March 2021.
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