Addepar
Staff AI Security Engineer
$159K–$249K
Remote, USA +1 · Remote · Staff · Full-time · Posted Aug 12, 2026
- Location
- Remote, USA
Remote - United States - Experience
- 9+ years in the listed security roles.
About the job
Leads AI-focused security initiatives, advising on secure AI architecture and building protections, controls, and governance across Addepar’s products and internal workflows.
What you'll do
- Advise on AI security trends and architectures, and help secure AI use across the platform and internal productivity initiatives.
- Design and implement AI guardrails and defenses against AI-based threats, including supply chain compromises; guide AI governance and security use.
- Lead security enhancements, architecture, automation, risk remediation, cross-functional enablement, and team mentorship.
What they ask for
- 9+ years of dedicated experience in security engineering, application security, infrastructure security, data security, or cloud security roles.
- Proven ability to turn ambiguous security problems into structured plans and execute them to completion.
- Deep expertise in AI, including AWS services, LLMs, MCP, agentic agents, frameworks, governance and regulations, attacks, guardrails, and costs.
- Strong experience with AWS, especially security services, and with authentication and authorization protocols and securing non-human identities.
Nice to have
- AI-based certification such as AAISM, AAIA, or CAISP; knowledge of NIST AI Framework, EU Artificial Intelligence Act, MITRE ATLAS, or OWASPP Top 10 for LLMs.
- Software engineering background; bachelor's or master's degree focused on Information Systems, Computer Science, or Security.
Pay
$159,000 — $249,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
AWS Services, LLM’s, MCP, Agentic Agents, Amazon Web Services, NIST AI Framework, EU Artificial Intelligence Act, MITRE ATLAS
AI focus
AI security strategy and architecture, platform and internal AI enablement, defenses and guardrails against AI risks, AI governance, and using AI to improve security.
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