Full-Time

Head of Security

Updated on 1/16/2025

Anyscale

Anyscale

201-500 employees

Platform for scaling AI workloads

Enterprise Software
AI & Machine Learning

Compensation Overview

$238k - $285kAnnually

Senior, Expert

San Francisco, CA, USA

Position requires onsite presence in San Francisco.

Category
Cybersecurity
IT & Security
Requirements
  • Experience with enterprise application security and have built secure products for enterprise businesses
  • Experience with corporate security
  • Leadership experience
  • Extensive experience with cloud providers
  • Software development experience (ability to build *and* assess things)
  • Strong communication skills and can effectively share your work with a broader audience through writing and speaking
  • You have engaged and led certification processes (e.g., HIPAA, SOC, SOC2 FedRAMP)
Responsibilities
  • Help us build and ship our first product
  • Take charge of application security, including everything from architecting and building secure products to designing our incident response policy to securely configuring our cloud providers
  • Take charge of corporate security, including everything from creating offboarding policies to making sure our software tools are locked down to ensuring our devices have reasonable endpoint protection
  • Work with the rest of the engineering team to make sure we have the necessary context to avoid introducing security bugs

Anyscale provides a platform designed to scale and productionize artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) workloads. Its main product, Ray, is an open-source framework that helps developers manage and scale AI applications across various fields, including Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and computer vision. Ray allows companies to enhance the scalability, latency, and cost-efficiency of their AI operations, with some users reporting improvements of over 90% in these areas. Anyscale primarily serves clients in the AI and ML sectors, including major companies like OpenAI and Ant Group, who utilize Ray to train large models and improve their ML platforms. The company operates on a software-as-a-service (SaaS) model, charging clients a subscription fee for access to the Ray platform. Anyscale's goal is to provide a valuable tool that enables organizations to efficiently scale their AI workloads and optimize their operational performance.

Company Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$252.5M

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2019

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

5%

1 year growth

-13%

2 year growth

-22%
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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Anyscale's $100M Series C funding indicates strong investor confidence and growth potential.
  • Partnership with Nvidia enhances performance and cost-efficiency for AI deployments.
  • Anyscale Endpoints offers 10X cost-efficiency for popular open-source LLMs.

What critics are saying

  • ShadowRay vulnerability in Ray framework poses significant security risk with no patch.
  • OctoML's OctoAI service increases competition in AI infrastructure market.
  • Dependency on Nvidia's technology could be risky if Nvidia faces issues.

What makes Anyscale unique

  • Anyscale's Ray framework scales AI applications from laptops to cloud seamlessly.
  • Ray is widely used in Generative AI, LLMs, and computer vision fields.
  • Anyscale's SaaS model provides recurring revenue through subscription fees for Ray platform.

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Benefits

Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance

401K retirement savings

Flexible time off

FSA and Commuter benefits

Parental and family leave

Office & phone plan reimbursement