AI Production Security Engineer (Forward‑Deployed)

Amazon; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 154,000 - 208,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon's AWS Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) seeks a Security Engineer to help secure production AI systems deployed in customer environments. You will conduct threat modeling, design reviews, automation development, and incident response to protect AI workloads.

Join a team that builds scalable security patterns and reusable playbooks, collaborating with engineers across bedrock-powered deployments and customer ecosystems. Travel up to 25% is expected.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of threat modeling, secure coding, identity management, authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration, or network security experience.
• 2+ years troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non-internship).
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 2+ years of scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages.
• 2+ years of work identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans.
• 2+ years hands on building AI/agentic systems.

Responsibilities

• Conduct security design reviews, code reviews, and architecture assessments for production AI systems under guidance from senior security engineers.
• Perform threat modeling and penetration testing for AI/ML applications deployed in customer environments; identify vulnerabilities and work with FDE engineers to implement fixes before production release.
• Build and maintain security automation: scanning tools, CI/CD security gates, guardrail testing scripts, secrets detection, and dependency vulnerability checks for forward-deployed AI systems.
• Implement security controls for AI-specific threats: prompt injection prevention, output filtering, data isolation, model API endpoint hardening, and guardrail configuration.
• Support security incident response for FDE-delivered production AI systems; assist with triage, root cause analysis, and remediation under senior engineer guidance.
• Document security findings, patterns, and remediation guidance as reusable playbooks and runbooks that benefit future FDE engagements.
• Contribute to the FDE security accelerator library: reusable modules, templates, and reference configurations that help FDE engineers build secure AI systems faster.
• Requires up to 25% travel.

Skills

Threat modeling

Secure coding

Identity management

Software development

Cryptography

System administration

Network security

Scripting

AI/agentic systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Amazon's AWS Forward Deployed Engineering (FDE) seeks a Security Engineer to help secure production AI systems deployed in customer environments. You will conduct threat modeling, design reviews, automation development, and incident response to protect AI workloads.

Join a team that builds scalable security patterns and reusable playbooks, collaborating with engineers across bedrock-powered deployments and customer ecosystems. Travel up to 25% is expected.