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Our company is the culmination of several successful firms, each a leader in its own right in cloud, artificial intelligence, and data. This convergence of talent and expertise is how we help businesses reach their own \"inflection point,\" where chaotic data becomes a strategic asset, complexity becomes clarity, and AI becomes an engine for growth. Our ultimate vision is to be the catalyst for a future where every business operates as an intelligent enterprise, with autonomous systems unlocking human potential.\nAt 66degrees, we believe in thriving through challenges and winning together. These values not only guide us in achieving our goals as a company but also for our people. We are dedicated to creating a significant impact for our employees by fostering a culture that sparks innovation and supports professional and personal growth along the way.\nOverview of Role\nIn this role, you will manage multiple aspects of AI information security operations, response, and engineering with a specialized focus on securing AI/ML systems and infrastructure. This position will contribute to a team focusing on incident response, playbook development and execution, operational engineering, AI governance, tooling maintenance, and serving as a key participant in Information Security and AI governance programs. You will work in close collaboration with all IT and AI/ML teams to design and support effective Information Security Operations for International, with emphasis on emerging AI threats and generative AI security.\nResponsibilities\nManages and is responsible for the successful completion of all tasks in assigned projects.\nContribute to the Security Operations and Engineering Team focused on maintaining the security integrity of the client's mission critical suite of applications.\nAvailable 24/7 for any critical security incident response that may arise which requires immediate resolution.\nWork to ensure security tooling within environments is operational and operating at needed levels of service and availability.\nEnsure operational practices provide a sound foundation that utilizes tools and processes for rapid identification of security events to address and mitigate risks.\nAssist in Plan, organize, and execute multiple responsibilities to achieve project goals and provide technical leadership to move operational projects to completion.\nContribute to security requirements, standards, procedures, and reference architectures to comply with policies and technical standards.\nDevelop and maintain incident response playbooks specific to AI/ML security threats including prompt injection, model poisoning, data exfiltration, and adversarial attacks.\nMonitor and secure generative AI systems, large language models (LLMs), and AI-powered applications within environments.\nContribute to AI governance frameworks and policies ensuring responsible AI practices and compliance with AI-specific security standards.\nAnalyze and evaluate security implications of new AI/ML tools and platforms before deployment to production environments.\nParticipate in AI threat intelligence activities and stay current with emerging AI security vulnerabilities and attack methodologies.\nConduct post-incident analysis for AI-related security events and develop preventive measures specific to AI threat vectors.\nReview and validate AI model security properties, including robustness against adversarial inputs and data privacy protections.\nQualifications\nManages and is responsible for the successful completion of all tasks in assigned projects.\nContribute to Security Operations and Engineering Team focused on maintaining the security integrity of mission critical suite of applications.\nServe as a key engineering contributor for AI operations, building and maintaining the tooling, pipelines, and telemetry that support secure deployment of AI/ML systems.\nWork to ensure security tooling within environments is operational and operating at needed levels of service and availability.\nEngineer operational practices, tooling, and detection pipelines that provide a sound foundation for identifying and addressing AI/ML security events.\nContribute to “Continuous Improvement and Posture Management” efforts, in respect to information security tooling, response playbooks, and systems.\nAssist in Plan, organize, and execute multiple responsibilities to achieve project goals and provide technical leadership to move operational projects to completion.\nContribute to security requirements, standards, procedures, and reference architectures to comply with policies and technical standards.\nEngineer detection logic and playbooks specific to AI/ML security threats including prompt injection, model poisoning, data exfiltration, and adversarial attacks.\nMonitor and secure generative AI systems, large language models (LLMs), and AI-powered applications within environments.\nContribute to AI governance frameworks and policies ensuring responsible AI practices and compliance with AI-specific security standards.\nAnalyze and evaluate security implications of new AI/ML tools and platforms before deployment to production environments.\nParticipate in AI threat intelligence activities and stay current with emerging AI security vulnerabilities and attack methodologies.\nAssist in configuration of AI/ML system telemetry and logging for comprehensive security event detection and forensic analysis.\nReview and validate AI model security properties, including robustness against adversarial inputs and data privacy protections.\nPlease note, we cannot sponsor or transfer any visas, of any kind, at this time.\n66degrees is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to actual or perceived race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, national origin, age, weight, height, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability status or other legally protected class.\nAI Transparency & Disclosure\nAs an AI transformation partner, 66degrees leverages intelligent solutions to enhance our recruitment experience. We utilize AI tools-including LinkedIn Recruiter’s Hiring Assistant and interview transcription technologies-to assist with sourcing, role analysis, and capturing interview highlights.\nThese tools augment our process, but we \"Commit to Our Craft\" by ensuring all final hiring decisions are made by our human Talent Team. 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