Privacy and Security Technical Assurance Lead, RCI

Google; Dublin; Presencial; EUR 112.000 - 114.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Equity

Bonus target

Benefits

Descripción de la vacante

Google Ireland is seeking a senior AI security assurance leader to drive testing programs and risk mitigation across AI/ML and traditional systems. You will collaborate with legal, policy, and product teams to ensure robust controls and governance for responsible generative AI, privacy, and security strategies.

You will manage complex assurance initiatives from inception to completion, reporting to risk committees and executive stakeholders, with a strong emphasis on program management and

Formación

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of cybersecurity, technical assurance, IT audit, penetration testing, or second line of defense risk management experience.
• Experience planning and executing enterprise-wide technical projects with legal, policy, or compliance partners.
• Experience designing and executing security control testing methodologies and risk assessments for software, infrastructure, or AI/ML systems.
• Experience with cybersecurity regulations (EU Digital Services Act, EU AI Act, NIS2, DORA).

Responsabilidades

• Provide independent oversight as a critical second line of defense.
• Lead AI security testing programs and communicate results to leadership and stakeholders.
• Translate testing insights into engineering recommendations for Generative AI and ML models.
• Collaborate with Legal to align assurance activities with global AI regulations.
• Design and scale security assurance frameworks using scripting and tooling.

Conocimientos

Security testing

Cross-functional planning

Regulatory awareness

Threat modeling

Educación

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

Advanced degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, AI, or related field

Descripción del empleo

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.


• 7 years of experience in cybersecurity, technical assurance, IT audit, penetration testing, or working within a second line of defense risk management function.


• Experience with enterprise-wide/cross-functional technical project planning and execution, including partnering with legal, policy, or compliance teams.


• Experience designing and executing security control testing methodologies and risk assessments for software, infrastructure, or AI/ML systems.


• Experience with cybersecurity adjacent regulations (e.g., EU Digital Services Act, EU AI Act, NIS2, DORA).

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.


• 7 years of experience in cybersecurity, technical assurance, IT audit, penetration testing, or working within a second line of defense risk management function.


• Experience with enterprise-wide/cross-functional technical project planning and execution, including partnering with legal, policy, or compliance teams.


• Experience designing and executing security control testing methodologies and risk assessments for software, infrastructure, or AI/ML systems.


• Experience with cybersecurity adjacent regulations (e.g., EU Digital Services Act, EU AI Act, NIS2, DORA).

Preferred qualifications

• Advanced degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.


• Professional AI security or audit certifications such as CISSP, CISA, CISM, AIGP, AAIA, ISO 27001/42001 Lead Auditor or equivalent technical certifications.


• Experience working within a technology company or \"Big Tech\" ecosystem, navigating complex, hyper-scale infrastructure and distributed risk environments.


• Proven track record in compliance engineering, DevSecOps, or security automation, with experience building custom tools for automated evidence gathering and audit readiness.


• Deep technical understanding of AI/ML specific vulnerabilities (e.g., adversarial attacks, training data extraction, prompt injection).

About The Job

The Risk, Compliance and Integrity organization (RCI) brings together critical compliance, assurance, risk, and governance functions across the company to help meet compliance needs and enable our businesses to innovate securely. Operating as a critical second line of defense, we manage our operations through risk-based prioritization, separate technical validation, oversight, and consistent engagement with product engineering and legal counsel.

In this role, you will drive key AI Security assurance testing programs. You will require a deep understanding of AI/ML architectures, offensive security testing methodologies, and threat modeling, coupled with the ability to test existing and emerging cybersecurity and AI controls. As a second-line leader, you will need the ability to collaborate effectively across the engineering organization, provide constructive issues, and influence at all levels.

In addition to a deep technical security foundation, you will require exceptional program management capabilities, and demonstrated ability to track, report on, and effectively manage complex technical assurance initiatives from inception to completion, which includes defining clear testing objectives, establishing metrics, monitoring the first line's remediation progress, and ensuring timely and accurate reporting to engineering stakeholders and risk committees.

Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training.

Ireland: €112000 - €114000 (EUR) + 15% bonus target + equity + benefits

Responsibilities

Learn more about benefits at Google .

• Provide separate oversight and issues as a critical second line of defense function, establishing and maintaining technical assurance testing frameworks for AI/ML and traditional security ecosystems.


• Lead AI security by effectively communicating testing results, control deficiencies, and mitigation strategies to technical leadership, legal counsel, and executive stakeholders.


• Translate testing insights into actionable engineering recommendations and partner with first-line research and product teams to continuously optimize privacy and security strategies for Generative AI and traditional ML models.


• Collaborate with the Legal department to evaluate the compliance implications of identified AI privacy and security risks, ensuring all assurance efforts align with internal policies and evolving global AI regulations.


• Design, implement, and scale security assurance frameworks, leveraging scripting and custom tooling to programmatically validate that AI safeguards and guardrails perform as intended.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form .