AI Security Engineer — Build Guardrails for Safe AI

Plaid Inc.; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Plaid Inc. is seeking a security-focused professional to serve as the first line of defense for our AI systems. You will review AI technologies for risks, design guardrails and identity controls, and implement detection systems to enable aggressive AI use without compromising safety.

Ideal candidates have hands-on experience securing AI, familiarity with guardrails, AI identities, and prompt-injection mitigation, and 3–6 years of related work. Join a team dedicated to secure AI at scale.

Qualifications

• Must-have: hands-on experience securing AI technologies, including at least one of: deploying guardrails or sandboxes; managing AI identities; detecting or mitigating prompt injection; running AI security reviews; implementing AI security tooling; 3-6 years of experience.

Responsibilities

• Review AI systems and integrations for security risk before and after deployment.
• Design and deploy guardrails, sandboxes, and other controls that contain what AI agents can do.
• Build or implement systems to track and manage AI identities, so we know what access every AI has been granted and can balance risk with agility.
• Detect and mitigate prompt injection across Plaid's AI surface area.
• Run AI-focused security reviews and set the bar other teams build to.

Job description

Plaid Inc. is seeking a security-focused professional to serve as the first line of defense for our AI systems. You will review AI technologies for risks, design guardrails and identity controls, and implement detection systems to enable aggressive AI use without compromising safety.

Ideal candidates have hands-on experience securing AI, familiarity with guardrails, AI identities, and prompt-injection mitigation, and 3–6 years of related work. Join a team dedicated to secure AI at scale.