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You'll design safeguards that protect AI agents, retrieval pipelines, prompts, tools, memory, and model interactions from misuse while ensuring every AI response remains explainable, auditable, and aligned with enterprise security and compliance requirements. This role focuses on securing AI systems, not simply securing infrastructure.\nThe Agentic AI platform is designed to help engineers understand, analyze, and modernize one of the most consequential legacy software systems still operating today.\nOur platform enables engineers to ask questions in plain English and receive explainable, verifiable answers traced directly back to decades of production source code. Rather than replacing engineers, we're building AI that accelerates engineering through transparency, traceability, and intelligent reasoning.\nWe're building an AI-native engineering platform supporting the modernization of mission-critical healthcare systems serving millions of Veterans nationwide.\nThe platform is designed for deployment across federal enterprise environments and is being engineered to align with FedRAMP security controls, Zero Trust principles, and federal compliance requirements.\nYou'll work alongside AI architects, software engineers, platform engineers, cybersecurity engineers, and product leaders to embed AI security into every stage of development from experimentation through production deployment. We’re building an AI platform where security, transparency, and trust are foundational, not afterthoughts.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nSecure Agentic AI Systems\nDesign and implement security controls for autonomous and multi-agent AI systems.\nSecure agent orchestration, tool execution, memory, and external integrations.\nIdentify and mitigate emerging AI-specific attack vectors and vulnerabilities.\nProtect AI Models and Knowledge Systems\nSecure Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines, embeddings, vector databases, and enterprise knowledge repositories.\nDesign controls that prevent unauthorized knowledge access, data leakage, and information exposure.\nImplement secure handling of sensitive enterprise and healthcare data throughout AI workflows.\nAI Threat Modeling\nPerform threat modeling for AI applications, agent architectures, prompts, APIs, and retrieval systems.\nAssess risks associated with prompt injection, jailbreak attempts, indirect prompt attacks, tool misuse, hallucinations, data poisoning, model abuse, and adversarial inputs.\nDevelop mitigation strategies that reduce AI-specific security risks while maintaining usability.\nResponsible AI & Governance\nBuild guardrails that improve trustworthy AI behavior.\nDesign policy enforcement, human-in-the-loop approval workflows, content filtering, and AI governance mechanisms.\nHelp define organizational standards for responsible AI development and deployment.\nAI Observability & Monitoring\nDesign monitoring capabilities that detect abnormal agent behavior, misuse, prompt manipulation, and anomalous model interactions.\nImplement logging, traceability, and audit capabilities supporting explainability and regulatory compliance.\nBuild mechanisms for continuous AI risk assessment and operational visibility.\nSecure AI Development\nPartner with software engineers to integrate AI security into development workflows.\nConduct security reviews of AI features before production deployment.\nPromote secure AI engineering practices across the product organization.\nWhat We’re Looking For:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, Information Security, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent professional experience).\n7+ years of software engineering, cybersecurity engineering, AI engineering, or application security experience.\nExperience designing secure cloud-native or distributed software systems.\nExperience with Large Language Models (LLMs), AI applications, or Agentic AI platforms.\nExperience securing APIs, microservices, and enterprise applications.\nKnowledge of OWASP Top 10 and secure software development practices.\nUnderstanding of AI-specific security risks including:Prompt injection\nJailbreaking\nData poisoning\nModel abuse\nAdversarial inputs\nHallucination mitigation\nSensitive data leakage\n\nExperience with cloud security across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.\nStrong programming experience in Python or TypeScript.\nExcellent communication and collaboration skills.\nA mindset of both a security engineer and a software engineer.\nExperience with solving problems that don’t yet have established playbooks.\nAbility to stay current with emerging AI threats and defensive techniques.\nExperience with ownership of complex technical challenges.\nAbility to collaborate effectively across engineering disciplines.\nCapability to influence how secure AI systems are built in highly regulated environments.\nStrong ability to balance innovation with responsible engineering.\nNice to Have:\nExperience securing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) systems.\nExperience with AI guardrails and policy engines.\nFamiliarity with frameworks such as LangGraph, LangChain, CrewAI, Semantic Kernel, AutoGen, or LlamaIndex.\nExperience with vector databases including Pinecone, Weaviate, Qdrant, Milvus, or Azure AI Search.\nExperience implementing AI observability, evaluation, or monitoring solutions.\nExperience with NIST AI Risk Management Framework (AI RMF), Responsible AI practices, or AI governance frameworks.\nExperience supporting Federal Government or healthcare environments.\nFamiliarity with Zero Trust Architecture and secure DevSecOps practices.\nProfessional certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, Security+, GIAC, or cloud security certifications are a plus.\nWhat’s In It for You?\nThe Opportunity to support high-visibility federal missions\nA culture that values innovation, growth, and collaboration\nAccess to cutting-edge tools and technologies\nComprehensive benefits for you and your family\nA career path that rewards ambition and performance\nIf you’re ready to push boundaries, sharpen your skills, and join a team that is passionate about building what’s next, we’d love to meet you. Apply today and let’s build a future together!\nLTS shares salary ranges to promote transparency. Compensation ranges are provided for informational purposes, and final compensation may vary based on experience, skills, location, and role requirements.\nLTS is committed to offering eligible employees comprehensive benefits that will provide them with options intended to meet their needs and the needs of their family.","description_format":"text","description_chars":6813,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Information Security","Civil Defense","IT Consulting & Digital Transformation","Occupational Health"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-07-30T17:07:45Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":25,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.567,"p_room":0.44,"age_days":77,"expected_fill_days":52,"reasons":["conf:2","win:tail","crowd:"],"computed_at":"2026-10-16T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/lts-agentic-ai-security-engineer-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/lts-agentic-ai-security-engineer-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-16T20:10:21Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":674,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-17T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":3483},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=3483"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Flts-agentic-ai-security-engineer-2"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Flts-agentic-ai-security-engineer-2"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Flts-agentic-ai-security-engineer-2"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/lts-agentic-ai-security-engineer-2\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Flts-agentic-ai-security-engineer-2"}]}