Senior Agent Security Architect for Enterprise AI

Tencent; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Tencent is seeking an experienced Agent Security Expert in Singapore to lead the architecture and security roadmap for an enterprise AI workloads protection product. You will operate at the intersection of application security, AI safety, and systems engineering to enable safe autonomous agents across digital infrastructure.

You will own end-to-end security design, implement runtime guardrails, and mentor engineers while collaborating with product and threat intelligence teams to address

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on security engineering or related field with a track record of production security components.
• Deep expertise in at least two of: application security, cloud-native security, IAM, or security operations.
• Proficient in Go, Python, Rust, or C++, with experience building high-concurrency security services or detection pipelines.
• Strong working knowledge of the LLM/Agent stack — RAG architectures, function calling, MCP protocol, and related agent frameworks.
• Experience shipping enterprise security products (EDR, CNAPP, AI-SPM or equivalent); familiarity with sandboxing, eBPF, or container isolation is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end technical architecture of our Agent security product, balancing detection coverage, latency, and operational overhead.
• Design and implement runtime guardrails including prompt injection defense, tool-call interception, and credential leak prevention.
• Architect security capabilities for MCP protocol, tool-chain supply-chain security, and defense against tool poisoning.
• Build automated red-teaming pipelines to discover vulnerabilities and harden defenses before production.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and threat intel teams to translate attack patterns into shipped features and mentor juniors.

Skills

Go

Python

Rust

C++

Security engineering

High-concurrency

LLM/Agent stack

Job description

Tencent is seeking an experienced Agent Security Expert in Singapore to lead the architecture and security roadmap for an enterprise AI workloads protection product. You will operate at the intersection of application security, AI safety, and systems engineering to enable safe autonomous agents across digital infrastructure.

You will own end-to-end security design, implement runtime guardrails, and mentor engineers while collaborating with product and threat intelligence teams to address