Advisory Engineer, AI Security & Governance

Lenovo; Farnborough; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday purchase

Private medical

Income protection

Positive work life balance

Learning and development

Life insurance

Cycle to work

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Mortgage advice and support

Referral bonus

Free onsite parking

Job summary

Lenovo is seeking an experienced Advisory Engineer, AI Security within the AI Governance and Product Security Office in the Chief AI Office. You will lead technical security assurance for agentic AI across Lenovo, translating risks into implementable controls and working with engineering teams through design, testing and remediation.

You will define standards for AI agents, perform risk assessments, and drive scalable assurance practices while collaborating with security and product groups

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, data science, software engineering, mathematics, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of experience in product security, application security, cloud security, security engineering or related discipline.
• Experience with agentic AI security risks and controls, including identity and access management, tool/API security, data flows, prompt injection, privilege boundaries, logging and human oversight.
• Experience designing or assessing security controls across cloud environments, APIs, CI/CD pipelines, identity services and data platforms.
• Working knowledge of OWASP guidance for LLM and agentic apps, MITRE ATLAS and cloud-provider AI security guidance.
• Ability to participate in incident response and product security operations as required.
• Relevant security certifications are advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Drive delivery of the Agentic AI Security and Assurance roadmap, including priorities, technical deliverables, adoption measures and remediation tracking.
• Define and maintain security standards, reference architectures and control patterns for AI agents, including identity, permissions, tool use, data access, memory, human oversight, logging and containment.
• Lead security risk assessments, threat modelling and assurance reviews for high-risk agentic AI use cases, platforms and material design changes.
• Develop and apply test scenarios for agentic AI threats.
• Define requirements for agentic AI discovery, inventory, runtime visibility, monitoring and control tooling; partner with operations teams on implementation and ongoing operation.
• Support investigation of material agentic-AI security events and incorporate lessons learned into standards, controls and assurance practices.
• Occasional domestic and international travel (approx. 5-20%) for meetings and collaboration.

Skills

Security engineering

Threat modelling

Cloud security

AI security

Incident response

CI/CD security

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/AI/DS/SE/math

Job description

Lenovo is seeking an experienced Advisory Engineer, AI Security within the AI Governance and Product Security Office in the Chief AI Office. You will lead technical security assurance for agentic AI across Lenovo, translating risks into implementable controls and working with engineering teams through design, testing and remediation.

You will define standards for AI agents, perform risk assessments, and drive scalable assurance practices while collaborating with security and product groups