AI Security Engineer - Enterprise AI & LLM Safeguards

Salt; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 350,000 - 600,000; Full time

Job summary

Salt is seeking a Cybersecurity Specialist with hands-on AI Security experience to assess and secure enterprise AI solutions, LLM applications, and agentic AI integrations in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

You will lead security risk assessments, architecture reviews, and threat modelling across AI platforms and cloud environments, collaborating with AI engineering, cloud, governance, and security teams to ensure production-ready, compliant security postures.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, CS, IT, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of cybersecurity engineering experience in cloud, application, or data security.
• Hands-on exposure to AI/ML, LLM security, or agentic AI platforms.
• Strong understanding of AI security threats, threat modelling, risk assessments, architecture reviews, and security testing.
• Hands-on knowledge of Azure security services, Azure AI, RBAC, managed identities, APIs, encryption, and secrets management.
• Familiarity with OWASP LLM security guidance and AI-specific vulnerabilities.
• Scripting in Python or PowerShell, with exposure to automated security testing or CI/CD security controls.
• Strong analytical, documentation, and stakeholder communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Conduct cybersecurity risk assessments for AI/ML solutions, LLM applications, agentic AI systems, and third-party AI integrations.
• Perform security architecture reviews, threat modelling, and design assessments across AI applications, APIs, data flows, and cloud environments.
• Identify and test AI-specific vulnerabilities, including prompt injection, jailbreaks, sensitive data leakage, excessive agency, and insecure integrations.
• Assess agentic AI and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations, including identity, permissions, tool execution, sandboxing, and human approval controls.
• Validate security controls for data protection, encryption, identity and access management, secrets management, network security, and API protection.
• Assess RAG architectures, vector databases, AI connectors, model integrity, and AI supply-chain risks.
• Support AI security monitoring, incident investigations, and the identification of unauthorized AI usage.
• Track vulnerabilities and remediation activities, document findings, and provide actionable security recommendations.
• Ensure AI solutions meet applicable UAE cybersecurity policies and data protection requirements.

Skills

Azure security

RBAC

Managed identities

APIs security

Encryption

Secrets management

Threat modelling

CI/CD security

Python scripting

PowerShell scripting

AI security

Cloud security

Security testing

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/CS/IT/Engineering

Tools

Azure Security Center

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Salt is seeking a Cybersecurity Specialist with hands-on AI Security experience to assess and secure enterprise AI solutions, LLM applications, and agentic AI integrations in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

You will lead security risk assessments, architecture reviews, and threat modelling across AI platforms and cloud environments, collaborating with AI engineering, cloud, governance, and security teams to ensure production-ready, compliant security postures.