Lead AI Security Engineer-APS

Responsibilities

About the Role-

We are seeking a Lead AI Security Engineer to drive the security of next-generation AI systems, GenAI platforms, LLM-powered applications, and AI-enabled enterprise solutions. The role combines Artificial Intelligence, secure software engineering, and offensive application security to identify, assess, and mitigate risks across AI applications and modern software ecosystems.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on AI/software engineer who can build and secure AI systems, apply AI for vulnerability discovery and code analysis, and use offensive security techniques to validate real-world risk. This role is focused on securing AI-led applications and platforms rather than performing traditional infrastructure penetration testing.

·         Lead AI security assessments for GenAI applications, LLM integrations, AI agents, RAG architectures, and AI-powered enterprise platforms.

·         Perform AI red teaming to identify prompt injection, jailbreaks, indirect prompt attacks, data leakage, insecure tool use, agent abuse, RAG poisoning, and model interaction risks.

·         Design adversarial test cases and evaluation methods to validate AI system resilience, trust boundaries, and guardrail effectiveness.

·         Assess AI application flows, model input/output handling, retrieval layers, plugins/tools, orchestration components, and data exposure risks.

·         Define practical mitigation patterns for AI risks, including secure prompt design, policy controls, input/output validation, grounding checks, logging, monitoring, and abuse prevention.

·         Build AI-powered security automation for vulnerability discovery, source code analysis, threat analysis, test generation, and remediation acceleration.

·         Develop reusable frameworks, evaluation harnesses, guardrail testing utilities, and workflow automation for secure AI development.

·         Integrate AI security validations into SDLC, DevSecOps, CI/CD, SAST, DAST, and code review pipelines.

·         Experiment with frontier AI models and emerging AI frameworks to create scalable security assessment capabilities.

·         Partner with product engineering teams to embed secure AI engineering practices from design through production.

·         Conduct secure design reviews, threat modeling, code reviews, and vulnerability assessments for AI-led applications, APIs, microservices, and cloud-native platforms.

·         Use offensive security techniques to validate exploitability, business impact, and remediation effectiveness.

·         Apply knowledge of OWASP Top 10, OWASP API Security, CWE, CVE, CVSS, MITRE ATT&CK, and application security testing methodologies.

·         Use tools such as Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, Nmap, Wireshark, Metasploit, Nessus, Kali Linux, and relevant AI security testing utilities where applicable.

·         Collaborate with engineering and architecture teams to prioritize fixes and strengthen secure coding practices.

·         Lead AI security initiatives across multiple engineering and cybersecurity stakeholders.

·         Define standards, playbooks, testing methodologies, and secure AI development guidelines.

·         Mentor engineers and security practitioners on AI security, secure coding, and practical AppSec techniques.

·         Contribute to security strategy for responsible, secure, and scalable AI adoption across enterprise systems.

Profile required

·         Strong hands-on experience with GenAI, LLMs, AI agents, RAG architectures, embeddings, vector databases, and AI application patterns.

·         Experience developing AI-powered applications, AI workflows, agents, copilots, or automation solutions using modern AI frameworks and APIs.

·         Good understanding of AI security risks such as prompt injection, jailbreaks, data leakage, malicious retrieval, insecure tool execution, model abuse, and adversarial testing.

·         Experience with LLM evaluation, guardrail testing, responsible AI controls, model interaction security, and AI governance concepts.

·         Ability to translate AI security research into practical engineering controls and testing approaches.

·         8+ years of experience across software engineering, AI engineering, cybersecurity engineering, or application security.

·         Strong development experience in Python, Java, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, C#, or similar languages.

·         Experience building APIs, microservices, cloud-native applications, automation frameworks, and enterprise-grade software solutions.

·         Strong understanding of secure SDLC, DevSecOps, CI/CD, automated testing, Git workflows, and engineering best practices.

·         Practical knowledge of penetration testing, SAST, DAST, secure code review, threat modeling, and vulnerability validation.

·         Understanding of web application security, API security, authentication, authorization, HTTP, TCP/IP networking, and common exploitation techniques.

·         Hands-on exposure to tools such as Burp Suite, OWASP ZAP, Nmap, Metasploit, Nessus, Wireshark, Kali Linux, or equivalent platforms.

·         Ability to assess vulnerabilities, explain real-world impact, and work with engineering teams to implement effective remediation.

·         Experience securing AI workloads or applications on Azure, AWS, or GCP.

·         Knowledge of Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker/container security, secrets management, identity security, and cloud security controls.

·         Exposure to configuration reviews against CIS benchmarks and relevant enterprise security standards.

·         Experience securing GenAI platforms, AI agents, copilots, LLM applications, or AI-driven cybersecurity products.

·         Experience building AI-assisted security tooling, AI-based code analysis systems, or automated security testing platforms.

·         Certifications such as AI security/red teaming certifications, OSCP, OSWE, GWAPT, CISSP, CSSLP, GIAC, or equivalent practical experience.

·         Background in vulnerability research, AI red teaming, application security research, or secure AI architecture.

·         AI-first engineer who understands how to build, test, and secure AI systems.

·         Strong software developer with the ability to create scalable tools, automation, and secure engineering patterns.

·         Practical AppSec/offensive security mindset with enough hands-on depth to validate vulnerabilities and guide remediation.

·         Comfortable working with architects, developers, cybersecurity experts, and leadership stakeholders.

·         Curious, experimental, self-driven, and comfortable operating in fast-evolving AI and cybersecurity domains.