Applied AI Security Engineer: Guardrails & Sandboxes

Waabi; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 118,000 - 168,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Health benefits

Unlimited vacation

WFH support

Catered meals

Team events

Job summary

Waabi, an AI‑driven leader in autonomous transportation, seeks a security‑minded software professional to own AI security controls and guardrails across the company. You will establish layered guardrails, inventory AI‑to‑service connections, and partner with engineers to bake secure‑by‑default workflows into everyday use.

You will evaluate new AI tools and integrate secure access patterns, while maintaining data access controls and policy documentation to support rapid AI adoption with safety

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Professional software development experience, with solid fundamentals in how services, APIs, and permissions fit together.
• Hands‑on experience using AI coding/productivity tools (Claude, Copilot, Gemini, or similar) in business‑critical workflows.
• Working knowledge of core security concepts — least privilege, sandboxing, trust boundaries, threat modeling basics.
• Strong communication skills - you work with engineers as a partner.

Responsibilities

• Audit how AI tools and MCP integrations are used across the company, and map where they touch sensitive systems, data, or credentials for the purpose of defining policy.
• Design and implement layered guardrails - enterprise‑level system prompts, scoped permissions, sandboxing patterns - that constrain AI behavior before it ever reaches a user’s request.
• Maintain an inventory of both MCP servers and AI‑to‑service connections and their data access controls, with a clear model of what each one can access and why.
• Partner directly with users across the organization to bake secure‑by‑default patterns into their AI‑assisted workflows so that written policy doesn’t just sit on a shelf.
• Evaluate new AI tools, plugins, and integration requests, and figure out the secure way to say yes.
• Continuously test and red‑team your own guardrails - assume they’ll be pushed on, and find the gaps before someone else does.
• Document guidance and patterns that a non‑security audience can actually follow without needing a security background.

Skills

Software development fundamentals

Security mindset

Cross-functional collaboration

Threat modeling

AI tools familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Claude

Copilot

Gemini

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

Job description

Waabi, an AI‑driven leader in autonomous transportation, seeks a security‑minded software professional to own AI security controls and guardrails across the company. You will establish layered guardrails, inventory AI‑to‑service connections, and partner with engineers to bake secure‑by‑default workflows into everyday use.

You will evaluate new AI tools and integrate secure access patterns, while maintaining data access controls and policy documentation to support rapid AI adoption with safety