Amazon
AI Security Engineer, AWS Security - AISec
$178K–$227K
Austin, TX · Full-time · Posted Oct 2, 2026
- Experience
- 4+ years in systems troubleshooting/log analysis/command-line automation; 5+ years in security risk identification and mitigation; 4+ years in scripting, programming, and security code review. Non-internship experience specified for each.
About the job
Secures Amazon’s AI applications by guiding security strategy and design, reviewing code, and building tools and practices that reduce risk.
What you'll do
- Develop and maintain threat models; conduct manual and automated security code reviews.
- Build AI security automation tools and provide architecture guidance, training, and outreach to development teams.
- Research and assess security risks, recommend mitigations, and influence security processes and priorities.
What they ask for
- 4+ years of non-internship experience troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating complex tasks using command line tools.
- 5+ years of experience identifying security issues and risks and developing mitigation plans.
- 4+ years of non-internship experience in scripting, programming, and security code review.
- Knowledge of at least two of Scala, Java, Python, C/C++, or Go; industry-based security vulnerability identification, attack patterns, and remediation experience; and experience as a mentor, tech lead, or engineering team lead.
Nice to have
- Experience applying threat modeling or other risk identification techniques, or equivalent.
- Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services.
Pay
178,400.00 - 226,700.00 USD annually (base salary)
Tools
Java, Python, JavaScript, Scala, C/C++, Go
AI focus
Secure AI applications through security strategy, threat modeling, code review, architecture guidance, automation, research, and developer training.
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