Remote AI Security Architect - GenAI Risk & Governance

Sysmatch; Portugal; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Personalized onboarding

Regular feedback

Dynamic international project

Competitive salary package

Career development opportunities

Collaborative culture

Exclusive discounts network

Team-building events

Job summary

Sysmatch is seeking an AI Security Architect for a remote role based in Portugal. You will review GenAI use cases, define security requirements for platforms, APIs, and data flows, and perform architecture reviews and threat modelling to ensure robust controls.

Collaborating with security, product, engineering, and data teams, you will implement auditable guardrails, strengthen data protection, and drive secure-by-design practices across AI solutions.

Qualifications

• Background in cybersecurity, ideally application security, product security, cloud security, or security architecture.
• Understanding GenAI / LLM-based solutions from a security and risk perspective.
• Experience with security reviews, architecture reviews, threat modelling, and defining technical controls.
• Experience with IAM, API security, secrets management, logging, monitoring, and control validation.
• Knowledge of data protection, privacy, data minimization, and secure handling of sensitive data.
• Ability to challenge technical implementations and validate that controls are effectively applied.

Responsibilities

• Support and review AI/GenAI use cases from design through production.
• Define security requirements for AI platforms, APIs, agents, tool use, and integrations.
• Perform architecture reviews, threat modelling, and security reviews of AI solutions.
• Validate integrations and deployments against security, privacy, logging, and auditability requirements.
• Identify and mitigate risks such as data leakage, unsafe tool use, and unbounded consumption.
• Define guardrails for data usage, especially for sensitive data, and ensure secure logging and audit trails.
• Contribute to AI security governance, standards, and secure-by-design patterns.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Application security

Cloud security

Security architecture

GenAI / LLM security

Threat modelling

IAM & API security

Logging & monitoring

Tools

Databricks

AWS

Azure

Job description

Sysmatch is seeking an AI Security Architect for a remote role based in Portugal. You will review GenAI use cases, define security requirements for platforms, APIs, and data flows, and perform architecture reviews and threat modelling to ensure robust controls.

Collaborating with security, product, engineering, and data teams, you will implement auditable guardrails, strengthen data protection, and drive secure-by-design practices across AI solutions.