AI Runtime Security Engineer - Orchestration Expert

Relha LLC; Austin, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

NXP Semiconductors seeks an Agentic Security Engineer to secure agentic AI systems, orchestration platforms, and runtime environments across enterprise and engineering domains. You will work with AI engineering, security, and architecture teams to ensure secure deployment aligned with NXP security standards and regulatory expectations.

The role emphasizes runtime security, policy enforcement, and observability, with hands-on work on AI runtime monitoring, tool execution security, and secure

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, cybersecurity, engineering, information technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity, application security, runtime security, or related engineering roles.
• 2+ years of experience securing or supporting AI/ML/GenAI applications, platforms, or services.
• Hands-on experience with AI/ML platforms, APIs, orchestration frameworks, or cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure.

Responsibilities

• Translate security requirements and operational risks into runtime enforcement and execution control mechanisms.
• Contribute to secure adoption of agentic AI capabilities aligned with enterprise security and governance requirements.
• Support security architecture discussions for AI orchestration platforms and autonomous systems.
• Perform security assessments of agentic AI systems, orchestration frameworks, and enterprise integrations.
• Review integrations involving MCP servers, APIs, plugins, external tools, and enterprise platforms.
• Build and enhance observability capabilities including execution tracing, logging, auditing, and monitoring for AI agent activity.
• Support detection capabilities for insecure agent behavior, unsafe tool execution, and anomalous AI runtime activities.
• Collaborate with Enterprise, Security, Platform, DevOps, and AI engineering teams to support secure deployment of agentic AI systems.
• Assess risks related to unsafe tool execution, unauthorized actions, prompt injection, context manipulation, memory poisoning, and insecure agent behavior.

Skills

AI/ML concepts

Runtime security

Policy enforcement

Observability

Analytical thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or Cybersecurity

Master’s degree preferred

Tools

AWS

Azure

APIs

MCP integrations

Job description

NXP Semiconductors seeks an Agentic Security Engineer to secure agentic AI systems, orchestration platforms, and runtime environments across enterprise and engineering domains. You will work with AI engineering, security, and architecture teams to ensure secure deployment aligned with NXP security standards and regulatory expectations.

The role emphasizes runtime security, policy enforcement, and observability, with hands-on work on AI runtime monitoring, tool execution security, and secure