Hands-on AI Security Lead for Research Environments

CIMMYT - International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center; Ciudad de México; On-site; MXN 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Year-end bonus (40 days)

Vacation premium (56%)

Life and medical insurance

Supermarket coupons

Savings fund

Social Mexican benefits (IMSS, SAR /In

Job summary

CIMMYT seeks a hands-on AI Security Specialist to lead the rules for how AI is used with CIMMYT's information, assess AI tools and services before adoption, 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 and careers. This role emphasizes data protection and collaboration with non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in information security with AI or cloud data workloads.
• Hands-on experience assessing AI tools for data handling and security risk.
• Experience explaining security rules to non-technical stakeholders.
• One recognized security certification is required.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain CIMMYT's standards for secure and acceptable AI use.
• Assess AI tools, services and supplier features for security risk before adoption.
• Define security requirements for enterprise AI assistants and data handling.
• Maintain an inventory of AI tools and applications across the organization.
• Lead incident response to AI-related security events and raise staff awareness.

Skills

Info security

AI security

Stakeholder comms

Cloud data workloads

Education

Security certification (CISSP/CCSP/AZ-500)

AI governance or AI security cert (ISACA AAISM, IAPP AIGP, ISO/IEC 42001 Lead Implementer)

Tools

Azure

AWS

Job description

CIMMYT seeks a hands-on AI Security Specialist to lead the rules for how AI is used with CIMMYT's information, assess AI tools and services before adoption, 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 and careers. This role emphasizes data protection and collaboration with non-technical stakeholders.