AI Security Architect / Engineer

TruTalent.ai; Hyderabad; On-site; INR 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

TruTalent.ai is seeking an AI security engineer who is passionate about mitigating risks in AI agents, GenAI applications, and agentic systems. This hands-on role focuses on researching threats, prototyping security controls, and turning ideas into working product capabilities.

You will design security measures to combat prompt injection, tool misuse, and data leakage, while aligning with security architectures and industry frameworks.

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of AI/LLM and Agentic AI security.
• Experience securing AI agents, GenAI applications, APIs, tools, and data access.
• Knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, D3FEND, ATLAS, OWASP LLM Top 10 and NIST AI RMF.
• Understanding of prompt injection, tool misuse, excessive agency, data leakage, authorization, and runtime security risks.
• Hands-on prototyping, testing, evaluating, and building security controls.

Responsibilities

• Research and analyze emerging security threats targeting AI agents, GenAI applications, and agentic systems.
• Design and prototype security controls to mitigate risks such as prompt injection, tool misuse, excessive agency, and data leakage.
• Conduct threat modeling and define security architecture for AI/LLM-based systems.
• Evaluate and implement security frameworks (MITRE ATT&CK, D3FEND, ATLAS, OWASP LLM Top 10, NIST AI RMF).
• Secure AI agents, GenAI applications, APIs, tools, and data access layers.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate security controls into the product lifecycle.

Skills

AI security

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Security controls prototyping

Hands-on security testing

Prompt injection awareness

Tools

MITRE ATT&CK

D3FEND

ATLAS

OWASP LLM Top 10

NIST AI RMF

Job description

We're looking for someone passionate about solving the emerging security challenges around AI agents, GenAI applications, and agentic systems. This is a hands-on engineering role — we want someone who can research a security problem, prototype solutions, evaluate technologies, and turn ideas into working product capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Research and analyze emerging security threats targeting AI agents, GenAI applications, and agentic systems
• Design and prototype security controls to mitigate risks such as prompt injection, tool misuse, excessive agency, and data leakage
• Conduct threat modeling and define security architecture for AI/LLM-based systems
• Evaluate and implement security frameworks (MITRE ATT&CK, D3FEND, ATLAS, OWASP LLM Top 10, NIST AI RMF)
• Secure AI agents, GenAI applications, APIs, tools, and data access layers
• Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate security controls into the product lifecycle

Must Have

• Strong understanding of AI/LLM and Agentic AI security
• Experience securing AI agents, GenAI applications, APIs, tools, and data access
• Knowledge of frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, D3FEND, and ATLAS; OWASP Top 10 / LLM Top 10; NIST security and AI risk frameworks
• Understanding of prompt injection, tool misuse, excessive agency, data leakage, authorization, and runtime security risks
• Experience with threat modeling and security architecturelt;i>Ability and willingness to prototype, test, evaluate, and build security controls hands-onlt;i>

Nice To Have

• Experience with SAST / SCA tools
• Vulnerability management
• Security control implementation
• Penetration testing