Principal AI Security Engineer

What you'll do

• Assess AI-specific risks and conduct security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and risk evaluations.
• Design and validate AI security controls, monitoring, logging, detection, and response processes.
• Translate governance requirements into technical safeguards, reusable guidance, and operational processes.

What they ask for

• Experience in a technical security discipline such as security engineering, cloud security, data security, application security, or detection engineering.
• Experience implementing, operating, or validating security controls and conducting security assessments or threat modeling.
• Experience translating security risks and governance requirements into practical safeguards and implementation plans.
• Strong understanding of data protection principles and strong analytical, communication, and collaboration skills.

Nice to have

• Experience securing AI platforms, agents, machine learning systems, or emerging technologies; knowledge of AI-specific threats and architectures.
• Familiarity with scripting, security automation, relevant standards or guidance, reusable security patterns, or AI security/governance certifications.

Pay

144,600–231,300 USD (yearly) base salary

Tools

DLP, SIEM, APIs, Model Context Protocol, retrieval-augmented generation, NIST AI RMF, NIST Cybersecurity Framework, ISO/IEC 27001

AI focus

Secures AI platforms, agents, integrations, data sources, and infrastructure; addresses AI-specific threats and establishes controls, monitoring, and governance for safe AI adoption.