AI Security Engineer II

Spotify AB; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the audio streaming sector seeks an AI Security Engineer to enhance AI security across their systems. The role involves developing best practices, conducting threat assessments, and collaborating with teams to ensure secure AI operations. Ideal candidates will have 3+ years in security engineering, particularly in AI/ML contexts.

Benefits

Extensive learning opportunities

Flexible share incentives

Global parental leave, fully paid for six months

Employee assistance program

Flexible public holidays

Qualifications

• 3+ years professional experience in security engineering and AI/ML systems.
• Familiar with embedding security into MLOps practices.
• Strong foundation in cryptography, cloud security, and application security.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement security best practices and automated tooling.
• Conduct threat modeling and security reviews for AI systems.
• Integrate security into the development lifecycle across teams.

Skills

Security Engineering

MLOps

Cryptography

Cloud Security

Application Security

Risk Assessment

Threat Modeling

Security Research

Job description

Spotify is seeking a passionate and skilled AI Security Engineer to join the Security team and work closely with the teams building the next generation of AI powered experiences. You will be at the forefront of securing systems that impact hundreds of millions of users daily. You'll tackle unique security challenges at scale, ensuring the resilience, integrity, and trustworthiness of models, data pipelines and systems that drive personalized user experiences to delight users.

Locations

• London
• Stockholm

Job type

Permanent

What You'll Do

• Champion and contribute to the development and implementation of security best practices, standards, and automated tooling for secure AI/ML development and deployment within Spotify's infrastructure.
• Partner closely with squads across the company to integrate security seamlessly into their development lifecycle, from ideation to deployment and monitoring.
• Conduct threat modeling, security reviews, and risk assessments for Spotify's diverse range of generative AI and machine learning systems.
• Identify, analyze, and drive mitigation for vulnerabilities specific to AI/ML, including data poisoning, adversarial examples and model extraction.
• Stay ahead of the curve on the rapidly evolving landscape of AI security threats, academic research, vulnerabilities, and mitigation strategies relevant to Spotify's scale and domain.
• Contribute to security incident response activities involving AI systems.
• Develop and deliver security guidance and awareness training tailored to AI/ML practitioners at Spotify.
• Evaluate, prototype, and integrate specialized security tools for AI/ML systems.

Who You Are

• 3+ years of professional experience with security engineering and embedding security into MLOps and AI/ML powered systems.
• You are comfortable writing code to integrate security tools and automate your work with modern software development practices.
• Strong foundation in core security domains such as cryptography, cloud security and application security.
• Good understanding of common security risks, attack vectors, and vulnerabilities specific to AI/ML systems and how to mitigate them.
• You are comfortable working with diverse stakeholders and explaining security concepts to non-expert audiences.
• Demonstrable experience with security research on AI/ML systems and applications.
• Experience integrating security tooling into production systems at scale.
• Familiarity with common agentic AI frameworks.

Where You'll Be

• This role is based in London or Stockholm.
• We offer you the flexibility to work where you work best! There will be some in person meetings, but still allows for flexibility to work from home.

Extensive learning opportunities, through our dedicated team, GreenHouse.

Flexible share incentives letting you choose how you share in our success.

Global parental leave, six months off - fully paid - for all new parents.

All The Feels, our employee assistance program and self-care hub.

Flexible public holidays, swap days off according to your values and beliefs.

Learn about life at Spotify

You are welcome at Spotify for who you are, no matter where you come from, what you look like, or what’s playing in your headphones. Our platform is for everyone, and so is our workplace. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be forward-thinking! So bring us your personal experience, your perspectives, and your background. It’s in our differences that we will find the power to keep revolutionizing the way the world listens.

Spotify transformed music listening forever when we launched in 2008. Our mission is to unlock the potential of human creativity by giving a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art and billions of fans the chance to enjoy and be passionate about these creators. Everything we do is driven by our love for music and podcasting. Today, we are the world’s most popular audio streaming subscription service with a community of more than 500 million users.