AI Security Engineer -- AI & Agentic Security

Onward Search; Woonsocket (RI); Remoto; USD 140.000 - 190.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

401(k) Program

Commuter Benefit

eLearning and Training

Descrizione del lavoro

Onward Search is seeking an AI Security Engineer to guide secure adoption of chatbots, GenAI, and agentic workflows. The position is remote and out-of-region, with a focus on translating evolving risks into policies, controls, and practical security guidance.

You will work on gateway security, threat tracking, incident response, and compliance, supporting threat modeling and vendor evaluations while ensuring alignment with security reference architectures.

Competenze

• 5+ years of software engineering experience (Python or equivalent).
• 3+ years in AI/ML or GenAI security, or equivalent information security experience.
• Working knowledge of prompt injection, jailbreaking, unsafe outputs, tool-use abuse, and related risks.
• Experience with cloud security across two of AWS, GCP, and Azure, including native AI/ML tooling.
• Ability to write specific, testable security requirements and translate them into automated controls (policy-as-code, CI/CD gates).

Mansioni

• Provide risk-based security guidance for chatbots, RAG, copilots, and agentic workflows.
• Develop testable AI security policies and enforce them via policy-as-code and CI/CD gates.
• Track emerging AI tools, protocols, vulnerabilities, and threats to provide timely security recommendations.
• Design protections for AI/ML/GenAI systems, including guardrails for prompt injection and data leakage.
• Support incident response, threat modeling, compliance activities, and vendor evaluations.

Conoscenze

Python

AI/ML security

Cloud security

Regulatory compliance

Descrizione del lavoro

We are hiring an AI Security Engineer -- AI & Agentic Security, a temporary opportunity, for our client. This is a remote, out-of-region role. This position guides secure adoption of chatbots, GenAI, and agentic workflows by translating evolving risks into policies, controls, and practical security guidance. It also supports gateway security, threat tracking, incident response, and compliance.

There is no application deadline for this role.

AI Security Engineer -- AI & Agentic Security Responsibilities:

• Provide risk-based security guidance for chatbots, RAG, copilots, fine-tuning, and agentic workflows.
• Develop testable AI security policies and implement automated enforcement through policy-as-code, CI/CD gates, gateway controls, and DLP.
• Track emerging AI tools, protocols, frameworks, vulnerabilities, and threats to provide timely security recommendations.
• Design and operate protections across AI, ML, GenAI, and agentic systems, including guardrails for prompt injection, unsafe outputs, unauthorized tool execution, and data leakage.
• Support threat modeling, incident investigations, detection engineering, compliance activities, vendor evaluations, and AI security reference architecture.

AI Security Engineer -- AI & Agentic Security Qualifications:

• Strong software engineering experience, including at least 5 years of experience and proficiency in Python or an equivalent programming language.
• At least 3 years of AI/ML or GenAI security experience, or equivalent hands‑on information security experience with a demonstrated transition into AI security.
• Working knowledge of prompt injection, jailbreaking, unsafe outputs, tool‑use abuse, identity misuse, agentic workflow escalation, and frameworks including NIST AI RMF, MITRE ATLAS, and OWASP LLM or Agentic Top 10.
• Experience with cloud security across at least two of AWS, GCP, and Azure, including native AI/ML security tooling, plus familiarity with OAuth 2.0/2.1, OIDC, mTLS, and workload or non-human identity concepts.
• Demonstrated ability to write specific, testable security requirements, translate them into automated controls, independently evaluate emerging technologies, and work within HIPAA or equivalent compliance obligations.

Perks and Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance.
• Life Insurance.
• 401(k) Program.
• Commuter Benefit.
• eLearning and Ongoing Training.
• Education Reimbursement.

Eligibility requires working over 30 hours per week on an assignment lasting at least 10 weeks.