AI Risk and Security Architect

Socket.dev; Scottsdale (AZ); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Bounteous, a global AI Services firm with onsite Scottsdale operations, seeks an AI Risk and Security Architect to lead governance, risk management, and regulatory analysis across the AI lifecycle. The role collaborates with security, privacy, legal, architecture, and business teams to ensure policy alignment and audit readiness.

The ideal candidate has 3–5 years of hands-on AI governance experience and demonstrates expertise in NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, and risk reporting to executives.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of hands-on experience in AI governance and risk management.
• Experience with policy execution, risk registers, and audit readiness.
• Familiarity with model/agent lifecycle governance, privacy and regulatory analysis.

Responsibilities

• Support AI risk intake, assessment, classification.
• Track mitigation evidence and policy alignment.
• Maintain AI inventory quality and governance reporting.
• Coordinate with security, privacy, legal, architecture and business stakeholders.

Skills

NIST AI RMF

ISO/IEC 42001

Model risk management

Privacy analysis

Regulatory analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline

Job description

Bounteous is a global AI Services firm where agentic engineering and human experience converge to deliver transformative business outcomes for the enterprise. We help organizations design, build, and scale AI-driven products, platforms, and processes. With more than 5,000 team members worldwide, Bounteous delivers AI that sticks, powering adoption and outcomes that move organizations from experimentation to true transformation. Bounteous is backed by New Mountain Capital, a New York-based growth-oriented investment firm that emphasizes business building.

Job Title: AI Risk and Security Architect

Location: Scottsdale, Arizona (Onsite - 5 Days/Week)
Job Type: Fulltime
Domain: Retail

About the Role:

Senior AI governance and risk management professional with 3–5 years of relevant hands-on experience in AI governance, risk management, responsible AI, policy execution, risk registers, control evidence, audit readiness, model or agent lifecycle governance, privacy and regulatory analysis, and executive risk reporting.

Required skills include NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, model risk management, privacy analysis, and regulatory analysis.

Primary Responsibilities

Support AI risk intake, assessment, classification, mitigation tracking, approval evidence, policy alignment, AI inventory quality, governance reporting, escalation preparation, and coordination with security, privacy, legal, architecture, and business stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline.
• Equivalent work experience may be considered.

Information Security Responsibilities

• Promote and enforce awareness of key information security practices, including acceptable use of information assets, malware protection, and password security protocols
• Identify, assess, and report security risks, focusing on how these risks impact the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information assets
• Understand and evaluate how data is stored, processed, or transmitted, ensuring compliance with data privacy and protection standards (GDPR, CCPA, etc.)
• Ensure data protection measures are integrated throughout the information lifecycle to safeguard sensitive information

Bounteous is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Bounteous does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.Bounteous is willing to sponsor eligible candidates for employment visas.