AI Application Security Engineer: GenAI & RAG Security

NXP Semiconductors; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

NXP Semiconductors in Austin, TX, seeks an AI Application Security Engineer to secure AI-powered applications, GenAI solutions, and RAG pipelines across enterprise environments. You will focus on the application layer, including authentication, authorization, prompt handling, API integrations, and data access patterns.

You will collaborate with engineering, security, and architecture teams to implement scalable controls, conduct security assessments, and align with NXP security standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Cybersecurity, Application Security, Runtime Security, or related engineering roles.
• 2+ years of experience supporting or securing AI/ML/GenAI applications or platforms.
• Experience with SSDLC, security testing, and cloud-native security practices.

Responsibilities

• Conduct application security assessments and secure design reviews for AI-powered applications and GenAI solutions.
• Review AI integrations involving APIs, plugins, RAG pipelines, vector databases, and enterprise applications.
• Evaluate risks related to prompt injection, insecure outputs, data leakage, insecure APIs, and retrieval poisoning.
• Support secure software development lifecycle (SSDLC) practices for AI applications and AI-enabled development workflows.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to implement secure coding practices, application-layer controls, and secure authentication and authorization mechanisms.
• Support AI application penetration testing, API security testing, and remediation activities.
• Assist with validating secure use of AI coding assistants and AI-enabled development tools.

Skills

AI/GenAI security

API security

Cloud-native security

SSDLC / secure coding

Threat modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

AWS

Azure

Job description

NXP Semiconductors in Austin, TX, seeks an AI Application Security Engineer to secure AI-powered applications, GenAI solutions, and RAG pipelines across enterprise environments. You will focus on the application layer, including authentication, authorization, prompt handling, API integrations, and data access patterns.

You will collaborate with engineering, security, and architecture teams to implement scalable controls, conduct security assessments, and align with NXP security standards.