AI Security Architect — Safeguard AI/ML at Scale with Equity

Deel; Reggio Emilia; Hybrid; EUR 107,000 - 161,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock grant opportunities

Flexible office membership (IWG)

Equity in a high-growth SaaS company

Competitive salary in USD

Job summary

Deel is seeking an AI Security Lead to safeguard AI-enabled systems and ML infrastructure across our global SaaS environment. You will define security standards, drive threat modeling, and deploy AISPM and AIDR solutions to enable safe AI tooling while maintaining compliance.

You will collaborate with engineering, product, IT, and security teams to ensure secure development, DevSecOps practices, and robust data protection in AI contexts. This role offers a hybrid work model with global impact.

Qualifications

• Experience in AI security and securing AI/ML workflows.
• Proficiency in threat modeling and security assessments for AI systems.
• Knowledge of AISPM, AIDR concepts.
• Experience with CI/CD security, dependency scanning, and software supply chain security.
• Familiarity with data loss prevention and data protection in AI contexts.
• Understanding of SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR or similar regulatory frameworks.
• Ability to collaborate across engineering, product, IT and security teams.
• Penetration testing experience targeting AI/ML systems.
• Ability to design guardrails for safe internal AI tool usage.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the AI security strategy across infrastructure and product ecosystem.
• Lead threat modeling and security assessments for AI/ML models, LLM integrations, and agentic AI systems.
• Evaluate and deploy AISPM and AIDR solutions.
• Secure MCP server deployments with authentication, data flow controls, and supply chain risk assessments.
• Own security review and enablement for internal AI tool adoption including guardrails.
• Develop and enforce policies for safe AI tool usage across the organization.
• Secure internal development through CI/CD hardening, dependency scanning, and security reviews.
• Plan and execute AI-focused penetration testing, including prompt injection and adversarial simulations.
• Design and implement DLP controls for AI environments and data handling.
• Review AI-related connectors, plugins, and third-party integrations.
• Collaborate with SOC and IR teams to build AI-specific detection rules and playbooks.
• Monitor AI threat landscape and translate risks into actionable controls and policies.
• Contribute to compliance efforts for SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR and other regulations.

Skills

AI security

Threat modeling

AISPM

AIDR concepts

CI/CD security

Dependency scanning

Data protection in AI

Regulatory compliance (SOC 2 ISO 27001

Cross-functional collaboration

Penetration testing AI systems

Tools

Security tooling

Job description

Deel is seeking an AI Security Lead to safeguard AI-enabled systems and ML infrastructure across our global SaaS environment. You will define security standards, drive threat modeling, and deploy AISPM and AIDR solutions to enable safe AI tooling while maintaining compliance.

You will collaborate with engineering, product, IT, and security teams to ensure secure development, DevSecOps practices, and robust data protection in AI contexts. This role offers a hybrid work model with global impact.