AI Security Lead: Safe, Scaled AI & Compliance

Deel; Lombardia; On-site; EUR 134,000 - 187,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock grant opportunities dependent on

Optional flexible office membership

Equity in a high-growth global SaaS

Inclusive, equal-opportunity employer

Job summary

Deel is seeking a senior security leader to safeguard AI-enabled systems and ML infrastructure across engineering, product, IT, and security teams. This role shapes security standards for AI adoption, assesses AI threats, and guides secure development and DevSecOps practices in a fast-scaling, globally distributed SaaS environment.

You will deploy AISPM and AIDR solutions, lead AI-focused threat modeling, and design guardrails for safe internal AI tool usage while contributing to compliance with

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

CI/CD security

Supply chain security

Data protection in AI

SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / GDPR

Cross-functional collaboration

Penetration testing AI/ML

Guardrails for internal AI tools

Tools

None

Job description

Deel is seeking a senior security leader to safeguard AI-enabled systems and ML infrastructure across engineering, product, IT, and security teams. This role shapes security standards for AI adoption, assesses AI threats, and guides secure development and DevSecOps practices in a fast-scaling, globally distributed SaaS environment.

You will deploy AISPM and AIDR solutions, lead AI-focused threat modeling, and design guardrails for safe internal AI tool usage while contributing to compliance with