AI Security Engineer: Build Safe AI, Equity & Local Bonus

OLIX; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity and ownership

Proximity bonus

Retirement benefits

Job summary

OLIX is hiring an AI Security Engineer to map our AI footprint, secure agents and data flows, and harden our cloud compute for AI workloads. You will implement controls against AI threats, ensure least-privilege access, and make AI security measurable through ISO 42001 processes and SIEM integration.

You will work in a high-ownership role, define security guardrails for AI adoption, and collaborate across teams to accelerate safe AI tool usage. Hybrid office setup may apply in London.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in security engineering, application security or cloud security, with at least 2 years securing AI or ML systems, LLM applications or agents.
• Hands-on knowledge of LLM-specific threats and their mitigations.
• Experience securing agentic systems: tool permissions, MCP servers, credentials and human approval steps.
• AWS security experience and identity experience, ideally Okta.
• Software engineering in Python or TypeScript.
• Daily use of AI coding tools and agents in your own work.
• Nice to have: ISO 42001 or NIST AI RMF familiarity, or hardware/deep-tech background.

Responsibilities

• Map the AI footprint: build and maintain the inventory of AI tools, models, agents and data flows across the company.
• Secure agents: give every agent a managed identity, least-privilege access, logged actions and the right human approvals.
• Build controls against AI threats: prompt injection, data leakage, model and package supply chain, unsafe agent actions and shadow AI.
• Secure AI infrastructure: harden the cloud compute our teams use to build and run AI workloads.
• Make AI security measurable: run our ISO 42001 self-assessment and feed AI security events into our SIEM.
• Enable safe adoption: review new AI tools within days and publish the guardrails teams need.

Skills

AI security

LLM threats

AWS security

Okta identity

Python/TypeScript

Agent security

Living near office

Job description

OLIX is hiring an AI Security Engineer to map our AI footprint, secure agents and data flows, and harden our cloud compute for AI workloads. You will implement controls against AI threats, ensure least-privilege access, and make AI security measurable through ISO 42001 processes and SIEM integration.

You will work in a high-ownership role, define security guardrails for AI adoption, and collaborate across teams to accelerate safe AI tool usage. Hybrid office setup may apply in London.