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The Distinguished Engineer, AI Tooling & Security will shape enterprise engineering practices, accelerate responsible AI adoption, and ensure that AI driven capabilities are developed, deployed, and operated securely at scale while enabling innovation and business growth.\nRole Summary\nCitizens is seeking a highly accomplished Distinguished Engineer, AI Tooling & Security to drive the design, engineering, and security of AI powered platforms and applications across the enterprise. This role combines deep software engineering expertise with advanced security knowledge to ensure AI solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and aligned with business objectives.\nAs a Distinguished Engineer, you will serve as a hands on technical leader and peer mentor, partnering with engineering, architecture, security, data, and business teams to shape the future of AI adoption at Citizens. You will lead the development of innovative solutions, establish engineering standards, influence strategic technology decisions, and advance secure AI capabilities across the organization.\nKey Responsibilities\nLead the design, development, and implementation of innovative software solutions, platforms, and tools that support enterprise AI initiatives.\nCollaborate with engineering and architecture teams to define scalable, secure, and maintainable technology solutions aligned with enterprise standards.\nBuild modern, cloud native applications and reusable components that accelerate business outcomes and technology innovation.\nIncorporate scalability, reliability, performance, observability, and maintainability into distributed systems and platform designs.\nChampion engineering excellence through code quality, automation, testing, and continuous improvement practices.\nServe as a senior technical leader and mentor, fostering a culture of innovation, accountability, and continuous learning.\nBuild and operationalize security controls that protect AI applications, models, agents, prompts, and outputs from misuse and abuse.\nSecure the full AI and machine learning lifecycle, including data ingestion, model development, training, deployment, monitoring, and runtime operations.\nDesign safeguards against emerging AI threats, including prompt injection, data poisoning, model inversion, adversarial attacks, and unauthorized data exposure.\nStrengthen identity, authentication, authorization, and access management controls for AI systems, APIs, services, and cloud environments.\nSecure integrations between AI platforms and enterprise applications, databases, APIs, and SaaS solutions to prevent unauthorized access and data exfiltration.\nImplement encryption, tokenization, data masking, and privacy preserving controls to protect sensitive information used by AI systems.\nDevelop monitoring, logging, detection, and alerting capabilities to identify anomalous AI behaviors, policy violations, and security threats.\nHarden cloud platforms, containers, orchestration environments, and infrastructure supporting AI workloads.\nEvaluate security risks associated with third party AI platforms and services, ensuring appropriate governance and control frameworks.\nIntegrate automated security validation, adversarial testing, and model robustness assessments into engineering and deployment pipelines.\nLead technical investigations and response activities related to AI security incidents, model misuse, and data exposure events.\nCollaborate with architecture, governance, risk, compliance, and engineering teams to align AI security practices with regulatory requirements and business objectives.\nRequired Qualifications\n10+ years of software engineering, platform engineering, security engineering, or data engineering experience.\nDemonstrated success leading large scale engineering initiatives and influencing technical direction across multiple teams.\nStrong understanding of AI, machine learning, generative AI, and agentic AI architectures and implementation patterns.\nExperience developing secure, cloud based applications and services.\nStrong programming experience in Python and proficiency in at least one additional modern programming language.\nExperience working with large scale data platforms and analytical workloads.\nHands on experience with AWS cloud technologies and securing sensitive workloads.\nStrong Linux and scripting experience, including Bash.\nExperience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, or similar technologies.\nDeep understanding of application security, cloud security, identity and access management, API security, and secure software development practices.\nKnowledge of AI security principles, model governance, threat modeling, and secure deployment patterns.\nStrong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.\nExcellent communication, 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