Sr. AI Security Engineer

BioSpace; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 260,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

Mental health support

Family building benefits

Generous PTO

Savings & investments

Location-specific perks

Job summary

Moderna is seeking a Senior AI Security Engineer to define and implement the security approach for AI adoption across the enterprise. You will develop guardrails, architecture patterns, and assessment methods to enable safe, scalable AI deployment and perform risk assessments of AI apps and agentic workflows.

You will partner with engineering, platform, digital, and security teams to drive secure design decisions, identify gaps, and lead baseline security reviews across traditional domains such

Qualifications

• 7+ years of cybersecurity experience with a focus on security and risk assessment.
• Experience in hybrid network environments (on-prem and cloud) security architectures.
• Proven ability to translate AI risk into enterprise security strategy and governance controls.
• Experience leading security reviews across AI applications and agentic workflows.
• Excellent written and verbal communication to explain complex risks to engineers and leaders.
• Experience in large-scale or regulated environments preferred.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to and help operationalize the enterprise AI security strategy, including target-state architecture, design principles, governance guardrails, and scalable security patterns for safe AI adoption.
• Develop practical security standards and architectural guidance for AI systems, including model usage, agentic workflows, data access, identity boundaries, and operational controls.
• Lead risk assessments and security reviews of existing AI applications, AI-enabled products, and agentic solutions, identifying material risks related to data exposure, excessive privilege, insecure integrations, unsafe outputs, prompt abuse, and runtime behavior.
• Execute baseline security reviews across traditional technology domains such as code, cloud, networking, APIs, identity, and application architecture to support broader enterprise security needs.
• Identify systemic control gaps, recommend pragmatic remediation strategies, and influence roadmaps to improve security outcomes across AI and non-AI environments.
• Provide clear technical leadership and executive-ready guidance on AI risk, architectural tradeoffs, and enterprise security priorities.

Skills

Cybersecurity

AI security

Risk assessment

Hybrid networks

Executive communication

Leadership

Cloud security

Security strategy

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

The Role:

As a Senior AI Security Engineer, your primary responsibilitywill be to help define and implement the enterprise security approach for AI adoption. You will develop practical security principles, architectural patterns, guardrails, and assessment approaches that help the organization deploy AI capabilities safely, consistently, and at scale. This role will also performrisk assessments of existingAIapplications, agentic workflows, model-integrated services, and supportingdata and access patterns. In addition, the role must be capable of executing baselinesecurityreviewsacross more traditional domains such ascode, cloud,networking, APIs, identity, and applicationdesign when needed.You will partneracrossengineering, platform, digital, and security teams to shape secure designdecisions and reduce risk across both emerging AI capabilities and the broader technology estate.

Here’s What You’ll Do

• Contributeto andhelpoperationalizethe enterprise AI security strategy, including target-state architecture, design principles, governance guardrails, and scalable security patterns for safe AI adoption.
• Develop practical security standards and architectural guidance for AI systems, including model usage, agentic workflows, integration patterns, data access, identity boundaries, and operational controls.
• Lead risk assessments and security reviews of existing AI applications, AI-enabled products, and agentic solutions,identifyingmaterial risks related to data exposure, excessive privilege, insecure integrations, unsafe outputs, prompt abuse, and runtime behavior.
• Execute baseline security reviews across traditional technology domains such as code, cloud, networking, APIs, identity, and application architecture to support broader enterprise security needs.
• Identifysystemic control gaps, recommend pragmatic remediation strategies, and influence roadmaps to improve security outcomes across AI and non-AI environments.
• Provideclear technical leadership and executive-ready guidance on AI risk, architectural tradeoffs, and enterprise security priorities.

Here’s What You’ll Bring to The Table

• 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with a focus on network security, application security, and risk assessment.
• Expertisein hybrid network environments, including on-prem and cloud security architectures (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Experience defining security strategy and architecture for enterprise technology initiatives, with the ability to build practical standards, patterns, and guardrails that scale.
• Demonstratedexpertisein AI security, including security assessment of AI applications, model-integrated services, agentic workflows, data handling patterns, and attack paths unique to AI-enabled systems.
• Strong ability to translate emerging AI risk into enterprise security strategy, architectural guidance, governance controls, and risk-based adoption decisions.
• Sufficient technical breadth to execute solid baseline security reviews across traditional domains including code, cloud, networking, APIs, identity, and application architecture.
• Ability toidentifyinsecure design decisions, translate technical findings into prioritized recommendations, and influence remediation across multiple teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex architectural and risk issues to engineers, architects, and senior leaders.
• Demonstrated leadership, strong judgment, and comfortoperatingin ambiguous environments with rapidly evolving technology and risk.
• Experience in large-scale or regulated environments is strongly preferred.

Pay & Benefits

At Moderna, we believe that when you feel your best, you can do your best work.

That’s why our benefits and well-being resources are designed to support you—at work, at home, and everywhere in between.

• Competitive healthcare, plus voluntary benefit programs to support your unique needs
• A holistic approach to well-being with access to fitness, mindfulness, and mental health support
• Family building benefits, including fertility, adoption, and surrogacy support
• Generous paid time off, including vacation, bank holidays, volunteer days, sabbatical, global recharge days, and a discretionary year-end shutdown
• Savingsandinvestments to help you plan for the future
• Location-specific perks and extras

The benefits offered may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Moderna and the country where you work.

About Moderna

Since our founding in 2010, we have aspired to build the leading mRNA technology platform, theinfrastructure to reimagine how medicines are created and delivered, and a world-class team. We believe in giving our people a platform to change medicine and an opportunity to change the world.

By living our mission, values, and mindsets every day, our peopleare the driving force behind our scientific progress and our culture.Together, we are creating a culture of belonging and building an organization that cares deeply for our patients, our employees, the environment, and our communities.

We are proud to have been recognized as a Science Magazine Top Biopharma Employer, a Fast Company Best Workplace for Innovators, and a Great Place to Work in the U.S.

As we build our company, we have always believed an in-person culture is critical to our success. Moderna champions the significant benefits of in-office collaboration by embracing a 70/30 work model. This 70% in-office structure helps to foster a culture rich in innovation, teamwork, and direct mentorship. Join us in shaping a world where every interaction is an opportunity to learn, contribute, and make a meaningful impact.

Moderna is a smoke-free, alcohol-free, and drug-free work environment.

Moderna is a place where everyone can grow.

Moderna is committed to equal opportunity in employment and non-discrimination for all employees and qualified applicants without regard to a person's race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, ancestry or citizenship, ethnicity, disability, military or protected veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, marital or familial status, or any other personal characteristic protected under applicable law. We consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.

We’re focused on attracting, retaining, developing, and advancing our employees. By cultivating a workplace that values diverse experiences, backgrounds, and ideas, we create an environment where every employee can contribute their best.

Moderna is committed to offering reasonable accommodation or adjustments to qualified job applicants with disabilities. Any applicant requiring an accommodation or adjustment in connection with the hiring process and/or to perform the essential functions of the position for which the applicant has applied should contact the Accommodations and Adjustments team at [e-mail].