AI Security Engineer: Secure AI/ML at Enterprise Scale

Amgen; Portugal; Hybrid; EUR 52,000 - 71,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Amgen Total Rewards Plan

Job summary

AMGEN Capability Center Portugal in Lisbon is seeking an AI Security Engineer to design and implement security controls across AI/ML pipelines and platforms. You will work with AI engineers, data scientists, and security teams to secure end-to-end AI workflows in enterprise-scale environments.

The role focuses on threat modeling, automation, and securing generative AI and agentic AI systems, using AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes within a hybrid work model in Lisbon.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in cybersecurity, security engineering, or related discipline.
• Strong programming/scripting ability to build tooling and integrations.
• Experience with cloud-native technologies, especially AWS.
• Knowledge of AI/ML lifecycle and security considerations.
• Familiarity with security risks in LLMs and GenAI.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement AI security controls for AI/ML apps, platforms, and APIs.
• Deploy security tooling and automation in AWS to integrate security testing into workflows.
• Integrate security into MLOps/LLMOps, CI/CD pipelines, and automated validation.
• Threat model AI systems and translate risks into engineering mitigations.
• Secure generative AI and agentic AI systems, including RAG, vector stores, and tools.
• Evaluate AI security tech: runtime protection, data protection, observability, posture mgmt.
• Implement infrastructure-as-code security controls using Terraform or similar.
• Collaborate with AI/platform teams to remediate security issues.
• Provide security reviews and practical engineering recommendations.
• Monitor for misuse patterns and emerging attack techniques in AI activities.

Skills

AI security

Cloud security

Threat modeling

DevSecOps

Python scripting

Security tooling

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science / Cybersecurity / Engineering

Tools

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Job description

AMGEN Capability Center Portugal in Lisbon is seeking an AI Security Engineer to design and implement security controls across AI/ML pipelines and platforms. You will work with AI engineers, data scientists, and security teams to secure end-to-end AI workflows in enterprise-scale environments.

The role focuses on threat modeling, automation, and securing generative AI and agentic AI systems, using AWS, Docker, and Kubernetes within a hybrid work model in Lisbon.