Security Engineer, Forward Deployed Engineering, AWS Forward Deployed Engineering

What you'll do

• Review AI system designs, code, and architectures; conduct threat modeling and penetration testing, and help remediate vulnerabilities.
• Build security automation and implement controls for AI-specific threats, including prompt injection, data isolation, and model endpoint hardening.
• Support incident response and document reusable security guidance, modules, and configurations.

What they ask for

• 2+ years in a combination of threat modeling, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration, or network security.
• 2+ years of non-internship experience troubleshooting systems, analyzing logs, or automating tasks using command line tools.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 2+ years of non-internship scripting, programming, and security code review; 2+ years identifying security risks and developing mitigations; and 2+ years hands-on building AI/agentic systems.

Nice to have

• Experience with security in service-oriented architectures/microservices and web services; AWS technologies.
• US government security clearance of top secret or above; compliance/security standards including PCI DSS, ISO 27001, HIPAA, and NIST; knowledge of at least two listed programming languages.

Pay

159,300.00 - 202,400.00 USD annually (base salary)

Tools

AWS, Python, Scala, Java, C/C++, Go, PCI DSS, NIST

AI focus

Secures production AI/ML and agentic systems, including RAG pipelines, orchestration, model integrations, prompt injection defenses, output filtering, data isolation, and guardrails.