Senior AI Security Engineer - Secure-by-Design AI Products

Firmus; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

the company Technologies seeks a Senior AI Security Engineer embedded in the AI & Applications team to secure the design, development, release, and operation of AI products and applications. You will collaborate with AI engineers, product managers, and platform teams to embed security controls across workflows and APIs.

You will work with DevOps and Platform teams to ensure secure Kubernetes environments, CI/CD pipelines, and runtime security, while leading vulnerability management for AI

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in security engineering, application security, cloud security, platform security, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience embedding security practices into software engineering or product development teams.
• Strong understanding of application security, API security, secure SDLC, threat modeling, vulnerability management, and security automation.
• Practical understanding of AI and LLM security risks including prompt injection, data leakage, and model abuse.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product, application, and engineering teams to define secure-by-design architectures for AI-powered products and services.
• Threat-model LLM-enabled workflows and safeguard against prompt injection, data exfiltration, and cross-tenant access.
• Design secure patterns for identity, credentials, tool allowlists, and auditability.
• Secure RAG and enterprise-knowledge workflows including data ingestion, indexing, and retention controls.
• Define security controls for user-facing AI products including authentication, authorization, consent, and audit trails.
• Secure model-serving APIs with workload identity, access controls, quotas, and logging.

Skills

Security engineering

Application security

Cloud security

Kubernetes security

CI/CD security

Python

Go

Threat modeling

Tools

Kubernetes security tooling

SBOMs

CI/CD tooling

Job description

the company Technologies seeks a Senior AI Security Engineer embedded in the AI & Applications team to secure the design, development, release, and operation of AI products and applications. You will collaborate with AI engineers, product managers, and platform teams to embed security controls across workflows and APIs.

You will work with DevOps and Platform teams to ensure secure Kubernetes environments, CI/CD pipelines, and runtime security, while leading vulnerability management for AI