Lead Security Engineer - AI/ML

Testing Site - JPMC; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in Ireland seeks a Lead Security Engineer to join the Cybersecurity & Technology Controls for AI/ML. You will be a core technical contributor delivering secure software solutions, focusing on preventing misuse and securing AI systems across the enterprise.

You will design secure architectures, perform threat modeling and adversarial testing, collaborate with product, data science, cyber, and risk teams, and drive adoption of secure design, logging, monitoring, and automated

Qualifications

• Formal training or certification in public cloud environments and AI services.
• Experience with threat modeling, discovery, vulnerability, and penetration testing.
• Knowledge of IAM, OIDC, SAML and security controls.
• Proficiency with IaC tools like Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Proficient in Python scripting and AI/ML concepts.

Responsibilities

• Develop security strategies, red-teaming programs, and scalable solutions.
• Design secure AI/ML architectures and review designs for adversarial resilience.
• Reduce AI security vulnerabilities by following standards and testing protocols.
• Collaborate with product, data science, cyber, legal, and risk teams on AI use cases.
• Conduct threat modeling, adversarial testing on generative AI and ML systems.
• Provide guidance on secure design, logging, monitoring, and controls.
• Define AI red-teaming playbooks and metrics for safe rollout.
• Work with platform and cloud security to ensure secure infra.
• Engage with external researchers and standards bodies on AI threats.
• Foster a diverse, inclusive team culture.

Skills

Public Cloud concepts

Cloud-native AI services (e.g., Bedroc

Threat modeling

Vulnerability testing

IAM / OIDC / SAML

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Terraform

CloudFormation

Python scripting

AI/ML concepts

AI red teaming design

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

Take on a crucial role whereyou'llbe a key part of a high-performing team delivering secure software solutions. Make a real impact as you help shape the future of software security at one of the world's largest and most influential companies.As a Lead Security Engineer at JPMorgan Chase within the Cybersecurity & Technology Controls for AI/ML, you are an integral part of team that works to deliver software solutions that satisfy pre-defined functional and user requirements with the added dimension of preventing misuse, circumvention, and maliciousbehavior. As a core technical contributor, youare responsible forcarrying out critical technology solutions with tamper-proof, audit defensible methods across multiple technical areas within various business functions.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance security strategies, red teaming programs, and solution designs, while troubleshooting technical issues and creating scalable solutions.
• Design secure, high-quality AI and software architectures, reviewing and challenging designs and code to ensure adversarial resilience.
• Reduce AI and LLM security vulnerabilities by adhering to industry standards and emerging AI safety research, evolving policies, testing protocols, and controls.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across product, data science, cyber, legal, and risk to understand AI use cases and recommend modifications during periods of heightened vulnerability or regulatory change.
• Conduct discovery, threat modeling, and adversarial testing on generative AI, RAG pipelines, and ML systems to identify vulnerabilities such as prompt injection, jailbreaking, and data poisoning.
• Provide guidance on secure design, logging, monitoring, and compensating controls for AI applications and platforms.
• Define and implement AI red teaming methodologies, playbooks, and success metrics, establishing mechanisms for continuous testing and safe rollout of new AI models and features.
• Work with platform and cloud security teams to ensure secure infrastructure configuration and alignment with enterprise security architecture.
• Engage with external researchers, vendors, and standards bodies to track emerging AI threats and bring best practices into the organization.
• Foster a team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect.
• Collaborate within a cross-functional team to develop relationships, influence senior stakeholders, and drive alignment on AI risk tolerance and mitigation priorities.

Required Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Formal training or certification in Public Cloud environment concepts and advanced hands-on experience with cloud-native AI services (e.g., Bedrock).
• Experience with threat modeling, discovery, vulnerability, and penetration testing (e.g., MITRE ATLAS, OWASP Top 10 for LLMs) and foundational cybersecurity concepts such as IAM, Authentication, OIDC, SAML.
• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions like Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Proficiency in Python scripting.
• Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts and trends, with knowledge of AI red teaming foundational concepts to design and implement exercises for complex AI architectures.
• Ability to conceptualize, design, validate, and communicate creative technical solutions to enterprise-level security problems, including building internal tools, dashboards, and automation for red teaming activities.

Preferred Qualifications, Capabilities, and Skills

• Expertise in planning, designing, and implementing AI red teaming exercises and enterprise-level security solutions for generative AI, LLMs, and ML systems.
• Experience with specialized AI security/red teaming tools and frameworks (e.g., PyRIT, Garak, custom LLM evaluation harnesses) and contributions to AI security or open-source security projects.