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

Citi; Belfast; Hybrid; GBP 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global bank in Northern Ireland is looking for a skilled professional to join their GenAI Security team. This role involves engineering solutions that enhance security capabilities for AI applications, ensuring they are protected against adversarial attacks. You will leverage your programming expertise, collaborate with various stakeholders, and develop security testing frameworks. The job offers a hybrid work model, competitive salary, and extensive benefits including annual leave and private medical care.

Benefits

27 days annual leave

Discretional annual performance-related bonus

Private Medical Care

Employee Assistance Program

Pension Plan

Paid Parental Leave

Special discounts for employees

Qualifications

• Highly motivated self-starter.
• Significant industry work experience is required.
• Experience in containerized deployment.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance the GenAI prompt security platform.
• Build and automate a security testing framework.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Engineering and Operations.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Problem-solving skills

Communication skills

Programming in Python and/or Go

Experience in Generative AI

Cyber engineering experience

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience

Tools

Git

Maven

Jenkins

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

Job Description

Discover your future at Citi Working at Citi is far more than just a job. A career with us means joining a team of more than 230,000 dedicated people from around the globe. At Citi, you'll have the opportunity to grow your career, give back to your community and make a real impact.

Job Overview

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

Visit our Global Benefits page to learn more. 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.

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