Senior Software Engineer - Build AI Tools (Python, GoLang)

Citi; Belfast City District; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

27 days annual leave

Discretional annual bonus

Private Medical Care & Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Pension Plan

Parental Leave

Employee discounts

Learning & development resources

Job summary

Citi is shaping its GenAI security capabilities within a dedicated GenAI Security team. The role focuses on engineering secure, scalable prompt security for AI/LLM applications and working with vendor products to strengthen defenses. You will partner with Engineering and Operations to deliver robust security across Citi.

The position emphasizes cloud technology, containerization, and DevSecOps practices in a dynamic environment, with opportunities to influence architecture and design.

Qualifications

• Degree or equivalent work experience in a relevant field.
• Strong programming in Python or Go with related tooling.
• Experience designing secure APIs and libraries.
• Developer with cross-functional collaboration experience.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and enhance a GenAI prompt security platform.
• Build and automate a security testing framework for LLM use cases.
• Own scalable security solutions across the organisation.
• Collaborate with Engineering and Operations in multiple time zones.

Skills

Python

Go

Problem-solving

Interpersonal skills

Generative AI

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

Git

Maven

IDEs

Jenkins

Bitbucket

Job description

Citi, the world leading global bank, has approximately 200 million customer accounts and a presence in more than 160 countries and jurisdictions worldwide. Citi provides consumers, corporations, governments, and institutions with a broad range of financial products and services, including consumer banking and credit, corporate and investment banking, securities brokerage, transaction services, and wealth management. Citi enables clients to achieve their strategic financial objectives by providing them with cutting-edge ideas, best-in-class products and solutions, and unparalleled access to capital and liquidity.

The Team:

Cloud Technology Services (CTS) is responsible for looking after Citi’s Cloud programme across Public and Private Cloud. It has several new and exciting programmes utilising cutting edge cloud and container technologies, with a view to ensuring that our offerings are best in class and enable our wider business lines and clients alike.

The job:

This role sits within the newly formed GenAI Security team, which is responsible for ensuring, maintaining, and improving the security of our GenAi Prompt security capabilities within the firm. You will be responsible for engineering solutions that strengthen and broaden our security capabilities in an environment that is changing daily whilst also working with vendor products to achieve the same aims. You will have the opportunity to partner with key Engineering teams, alongside Operations and Site Reliability Engineering.

Effective capabilities that combine security and engineering excellence are key to success.

What the role covers:

• Designing, developing, optimizing, and enhancing a GenAI prompt security platform to protect firm AI/LLM-based applications from adversarial attacks and prompt injections.
• Building and automating a security testing framework to validate protection mechanisms for various LLM use cases.
• Owning solutions that are expected to operate and perform at scale across the organisation.
• Collaboration with multiple stakeholders and partners across Engineering and Operations as well as partner teams within the wider Citi organisation, across different time zones.

Job Skills/ Qualifications:

• Highly motivated self-starter with excellent interpersonal and problem-solving skills
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Significant relevant industry work experience
• Experience of the full lifecycle of design, implementation and running of enterprise software solutions involving cross functional team collaboration
• Expertise in a major programming language such as Python and/or Go, and associated tooling (Git, Maven, IDEs, Jenkins, Bitbucket etc)
• Expertise in designing and implementing secure APIs and libraries.
• Experience in Generative AI, LLM frameworks, LLM prompt engineering and/or adversarial testing is a bonus.
• Experience with Cyber engineering and Operations, which could include DevSecOps or MLSecOps.
• Experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, scaling) of new and current systems
• Experience in containerized deployment (Kubernetes, OpenShift etc).
• Expertise with DevOps, CI/CD and agile methodology

What we can offer you:

By joining Citi, you will not only be part of a business casual workplace with a hybrid working model (up to 2 days working at home per week), but also receive a competitive base salary (which is annually reviewed), and enjoy a whole host of additional benefits such as:

• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• A discretional annual performance related bonus
• Private Medical Care & Life Insurance
• Employee Assistance Program
• Pension Plan
• Paid Parental Leave
• Special discounts for employees, family, and friends
• Access to an array of learning and development resources

Alongside these benefits Citi is committed to ensuring our workplace is where everyone feels comfortable coming to work as their whole self, every day. We want the best talent around the world to be energized to join us, motivated to stay and empowered to thrive.

Job Family Group:

Technology

Job Family:

Systems & Engineering

Most Relevant Skills

Please see the requirements listed above.

Other Relevant Skills

For complementary skills, please see above and/or contact the recruiter.

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