AI Security Architect — Secure-by-Design & Governance

Lenovo; Morrisville (NC); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Lenovo is seeking an Advisory Engineer, AI Security to lead the security architecture and assurance for AI models and AI-driven products. You will define secure-by-design patterns, perform threat modelling, and drive remediation with cross-functional teams across cloud environments and data pipelines.

Ideally you bring 8+ years in product or cloud security, hands-on AI security expertise, and the ability to translate findings into actionable engineering guidance while travelling ~5% for

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, artificial intelligence, data science, software engineering, mathematics, or a related field
• 8+ years in product security, application security, cloud security, security engineering or a closely related discipline

Responsibilities

• Drive delivery of the AI Security Architecture and Assurance roadmap, defining priorities, milestones, technical deliverables and success measures; track remediation actions through to closure.
• Define secure-by-design technical standards, reference architectures, control patterns and assessment methodologies for AI models, LLM and agentic AI systems and AI development platforms.
• Lead security architecture reviews, threat modelling and technical assurance for high-risk AI systems, products and material changes.
• Establish and improve model-assurance requirements for third-party and open-weight models, including provenance, supply-chain risk, deployment configuration, vulnerabilities, updates and compensating controls.
• Define security requirements and technical evaluation criteria for AI security tooling; partner with operational teams on implementation, integration and lifecycle management.
• Support material AI security incidents and convert lessons learned into improved controls, standards and engineering guidance.
• Occasional domestic and international travel (approx. 5%) for meetings and collaboration.

Skills

AI security

Security architecture

Threat modelling

Cloud security

CI/CD security

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Job description

Lenovo is seeking an Advisory Engineer, AI Security to lead the security architecture and assurance for AI models and AI-driven products. You will define secure-by-design patterns, perform threat modelling, and drive remediation with cross-functional teams across cloud environments and data pipelines.

Ideally you bring 8+ years in product or cloud security, hands-on AI security expertise, and the ability to translate findings into actionable engineering guidance while travelling ~5% for