AI AppSec Engineer Lead

Capital Group; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 226,893 - 363,029; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous health benefits

Flexible work options

Professional development resources

Job summary

A leading financial services company is seeking a Lead AI AppSec Engineer in Los Angeles to secure AI applications and solutions. You'll work closely with multiple teams to embed automated security checks in the AI development lifecycle. The ideal candidate should have over 8 years of experience in information security and a strong understanding of security risks for AI systems. The role offers comprehensive benefits including generous time-away, health benefits, and a competitive salary.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in information security, application security, or DevSecOps.
• Strong knowledge of security risks of Large Language Models.
• Experience automating security checks in CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Embed automated security checks into AI SDLC.
• Threat model complex AI systems and design security requirements.
• Review code for security vulnerabilities in AI systems.

Skills

Information security

Application security

Large Language Models security

Threat modeling

Automation in CI/CD

Programming (Python, Java, .NET)

Collaboration

Communication

Tools

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Cloud Services

Job description

Lead AI AppSec Engineer

Role Overview: As a Lead AI AppSec Engineer, you will work with application teams to ensure the security of custom and procured AI solutions. You will help enable Capital Group’s AI strategy by building and/or procuring solutions to protect a diverse set of enterprise AI platforms being built and deployed at Capital Group. You'll collaborate with platform engineering, security engineering, and risk teams to ensure that their solutions support scalable, secure adoption of AI. Additionally, you'll be expected to provide mentoring, advising diverse teams across the organization, and promoting AI Security principles across Capital Group.

Responsibilities

• Secure AI Development Lifecycle: procure and/or build technical solutions to embed automated security checks into the AI SDLC and ML‑Ops.
• AI Threat Modeling: threat model complex agentic and AI systems and design security requirements collaboratively with developers, architects, and business stakeholders.
• Code Analysis: review code for security vulnerabilities in the context of AI‑driven systems.
• Contribute to Standards and Policies: provide thought leadership for Information Security policies and standards for AI in collaboration with technology risk.
• AI/Agent SME: provide AI/Agent subject matter expertise for AI Incidents and Security Reviews, and help develop incident response playbooks for AI‑related security incidents.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in information security, application security, platform security, or penetration testing, DevSecOps, network security, and other security disciplines.
• Strong knowledge of security and safety risks of Large Language Models and AI Agents (OWASP LLM Top 10, etc.).
• 5+ years of experience automating security checks, including SAST, SCA, and DAST, directly into CI/CD pipelines.
• Extensive experience with STRIDE/other threat modeling frameworks, agile workflows, including Scrum and Kanban.
• Experience in at least one programming language (Python, Java, .NET).
• Effective partner and collaboration with stakeholder teams.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to outline security risks to leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience with technologies including Kubernetes, Containers, CI/CD, and Cloud Service Providers.
• Familiarity with key AI platform components such as AI gateways (Kong, Databricks Mosaic AI Gateway, custom API orchestration), Model Orchestration (e.g., LangChain, LlamaIndex).
• Familiarity with key AI regulatory frameworks such as NIST AI RMF, MITRE ATLAS, GDPR, EU AI Act.
• Information Security certifications (CISSP, SANS GIAC, CISA).

Benefits

• Generous time‑away and health benefits from day one, with the opportunity for flexible work options.
• 2‑for‑1 matching gifts for charitable contributions and the opportunity to secure annual grants for the organizations you love.
• On‑demand professional development resources that allow you to hone existing skills and learn new ones.

Compensation

Southern California Base Salary Range: $226,893 - $363,029. New York Base Salary Range: $240,519 - $384,830.

In addition to a highly competitive base salary per plan guidelines, restrictions and vesting requirements, you also will be eligible for an individual annual performance bonus, plus Capital's annual profitability bonus, and a retirement plan where Capital contributes 15% of your eligible earnings.

Temporary positions in the United States are excluded from the above mentioned compensation and benefit plans.

Equal Opportunity Employer

We are an equal opportunity employer. We comply with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit discrimination when making employment decisions. Our policies prohibit unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex (including gender and gender identity), pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status, AIDS/HIV status, political activities or affiliations, military or veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence, assault or stalking, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.