AI Security Specialist — Safeguarding Research AI Tools

CIMMYT; Ciudad de México; On-site; MXN 600,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Year-end bonus (40 days)

Vacation premium

Life and medical insurance

Supermarket coupons

Savings fund

IMSS / Infonavit benefits

Job summary

CIMMYT is seeking a hands-on AI Security Specialist to lead the rules for how AI is used, assess tools, and secure environments where researchers build and test AI.

You will join a cybersecurity team that supports an international research organization working across many countries, setting security baselines, monitoring AI threats, and guiding vendor assessments to manage data protection and compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information security or a related field.
• At least 6 years in information security, including at least 2 years securing AI, machine-learning or cloud data workloads.
• Hands-on experience assessing AI tools or services for data handling and security risk.
• Experience working with non-technical stakeholders to set and apply security rules.
• Required: at least one recognized security certification, such as CISSP, CCSP or Microsoft AZ-500.
• Preferred: an AI governance or AI security certification, such as ISACA AAISM, IAPP AIGP or ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Implementer. If not held, it must be obtained within 12 months of appointment.
• Advanced English level.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain CIMMYT's standards for the secure and acceptable use of AI.
• Assess AI tools, services and supplier AI features for security and data protection risk before adoption.
• Define security and data protection requirements for enterprise AI assistants and agents.
• Maintain an inventory of AI tools and applications in use across the organization.
• Set and review security baselines for research environments that build or test AI.
• Monitor AI-specific threats and test AI applications before release.
• Define AI security requirements for contracts and supplier assessments.
• Lead the technical response to AI-related security incidents and contribute to staff awareness on safe use of AI.

Skills

Information security

AI security

Cloud security

Risk assessment

Stakeholder communication

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Master's degree (advantage)

Job description

CIMMYT is seeking a hands-on AI Security Specialist to lead the rules for how AI is used, assess tools, and secure environments where researchers build and test AI.

You will join a cybersecurity team that supports an international research organization working across many countries, setting security baselines, monitoring AI threats, and guiding vendor assessments to manage data protection and compliance.