AI Security Architect — Lead Secure AI & Risk

Rockefeller Capital Management; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 225,000; Full time

Job summary

Rockefeller Capital Management is seeking an AI Cybersecurity Lead in New York to serve as the firm's senior technical authority for AI security. This hands-on leadership role focuses on secure AI design, governance, and risk management to enable rapid AI adoption while protecting data, models, and credentials.

You will architect secure AI systems, oversee threat modeling and incident response, and embed security across the AI development lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Judgment under ambiguity; ability to design enforceable controls for agentic systems where settled industry practice does not yet exist and distinguishes a real control from a policy statement.
• Builds working prototypes, reference patterns, and automation using Python, PowerShell, Terraform or Bicep, and GitHub Actions that engineering can adopt directly.
• Demonstrates strong detection engineering and secure SDLC experience, including security monitoring, logging requirements, vulnerability management, secure design reviews, and CI/CD pipeline security.
• Experience with AI threat modeling, adversarial testing, red teaming, or penetration testing, with focus on prompt injection, data exfiltration, and supply chain risk.

Responsibilities

• Own the firm's AI security strategy and serve as the senior technical authority on secure design and operation of AI, generative AI, and agentic systems.
• Design secure AI architectures and reusable security patterns for AI applications, retrieval systems, model integrations, agent frameworks, and MCP services.
• Establish and enforce security controls across agent execution, permissions, data access, secrets management, credential protection, and runtime containment.
• Lead AI threat modeling, adversarial testing, and security assessments covering prompt injection, jailbreaks, excessive permissions, and autonomous attack scenarios.
• Build AI detection and response capabilities with Security Operations, including monitoring, logging, investigations, and incident response for AI-related threats.
• Embed security throughout the AI development lifecycle, including governance, dependency management, secure orchestration, and deployment controls.
• Assess third-party AI platforms and services for security, privacy, data protection, and operational risk.
• Monitor emerging AI threats and regulatory developments, advise senior leadership, and document security standards, architecture, and risk assessments.

Skills

Judgment under ambiguity

Prototyping & automation

Python scripting

Technical communication

Gatekeeping

Azure security

AI threat modeling

CI/CD security

AI ecosystems security

Data protection

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline

Tools

Azure Entra ID

Azure OpenAI / AI Foundry

Key Vault

Defender for Cloud

Job description

Rockefeller Capital Management is seeking an AI Cybersecurity Lead in New York to serve as the firm's senior technical authority for AI security. This hands-on leadership role focuses on secure AI design, governance, and risk management to enable rapid AI adoption while protecting data, models, and credentials.

You will architect secure AI systems, oversee threat modeling and incident response, and embed security across the AI development lifecycle.