AI Security Engineer (Remote in the U.S.)

guidepointsecurity; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

GuidePoint Security North Central region is seeking a skilled AI Security Engineer to join our Automation and AI Practice. You will assist clients in designing, implementing, securing, and operating generative AI security solutions across governance, testing, and deployment.

The role involves collaborating with AppSec, Cloud Security, and IAM teams to deliver secure AI services, conduct threat modeling, and provide architecture reviews for AI platforms and tools.

Qualifications

• Experience securing AI platforms and related tooling.
• Knowledge of AI governance, IR and risk assessment.
• Familiarity with threat modeling for AI workloads.

Responsibilities

• Conduct secure configuration reviews of enterprise AI platforms against control domains.
• Lead threat modeling exercises for AI workloads.
• Assess AI coding tools and development environments for security.
• Advise on securely integrating SaaS AI services into applications.
• Evaluate data ingestion pipelines and vector databases for security and privacy.
• Conduct shadow AI discovery engagements.

Skills

Threat modeling

Security assessments

AI governance

Secure coding practices

Cloud security

Tools

Claude Enterprise

OpenAI ChatGPT Enterprise

Microsoft Copilot

Claude Code

OpenAI Codex

Cursor

MCP servers

Job description

GuidePoint Security provides trusted cybersecurity expertise, solutions and services that help organizations make better decisions and minimize risk. By taking a three-tiered, holistic approach for evaluating security posture and ecosystems, GuidePoint enables some of the nation's top organizations, such as Fortune 500 companies and U.S. government agencies, to identify threats, optimize resources and integrate best-fit solutions that mitigate risk.

General Description

The GuidePoint Security North Central region is seeking a skilled AI Security Engineer to join our growing AI Security Services team within the Automation and AI Practice. You will assist customers in the design, implementation, security, and operational management of generative AI security solutions - including AI governance assessments, LLM and agent security testing, shadow AI discovery, agentic workflow development, and architecture reviews.

About the North Central AI Security Practice

You will work closely with peers across multiple domains including AppSec, Cloud Security, and Identity and Access Management to deliver holistic and secure solutions adhering to industry best practices. This role offers the opportunity to contribute directly to the continued growth of our AI security practice and its expanding service portfolio.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• AI Security Architecture & Assessment: Conduct secure configuration reviews and security assessments of enterprise AI platforms (e.g., Anthropic Claude Enterprise, OpenAI ChatGPT Enterprise, Microsoft Copilot) against established control domains - including identity and provisioning, network and access enforcement, data protection and retention, and audit and compliance - identifying vulnerabilities, attack surfaces, and gaps against industry frameworks (e.g., OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS)
• Threat Modeling for AI Systems: Lead threat modeling exercises specific to AI workloads, covering prompt injection, model inversion, data poisoning, supply chain risks, excessive agency, privilege escalation through tool chaining, and unauthorized cross-application data movement across SaaS, self-hosted, and local AI deployments
• AI Coding Tool & Development Environment Security: Assess AI coding tools and development environments - including Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Open Code, Cursor, and MCP servers - for sandbox isolation, plugin allowlisting, secrets access, network egress controls, and CI/CD pipeline security
• Secure AI Integration Guidance: Advise client teams on securely integrating SaaS AI services and APIs (e.g., OpenAI, Azure OpenAI, AWS Bedrock) into enterprise applications, including safe handling of credentials, outputs, and user data
• Data Security & Privacy Controls: Evaluate and recommend controls for data ingestion pipelines, RAG architectures, and vector databases to prevent unauthorized data exposure, leakage through model outputs, or non-compliant data processing - including zero data retention enforcement, sensitivity labeling, data classification, and encryption key management
• Shadow AI Discovery: Conduct shadow AI discovery engagements to inventory unsanctioned AI tool usage and assess associated data exposure risks across client environments
• Security Controls & Guardrails Evaluation: Evaluate security controls and guardrails across AI platforms, including identity and access management, DLP integration, conditional access policies, SIEM and logging configurations, human-in-the-loop mechanisms, and AI-specific runtime protections
• Agentic Workflow Development: Design, build, and deploy AI agent workflows including use-case design, agent architecture, and integration with security tooling and automation platforms
• Security Architecture Reviews: Perform security architecture reviews for organizations deploying AI agents that connect to tools, data sources, or other agents via MCP or agentic frameworks, delivering reference architectures and recommendations
• Security Documentation & Deliverables: Develop and deliver engagement artifacts including secure configuration review reports, prioritized findings registers, AI security control matrices, reference architectures, risk assessments, control frameworks, and secure enablement roadmaps
• Strategic AI Security Roadmap: Contribute to the development of long-term AI security strategies for clients, including prioritized remediation roadmaps, capability maturity assessments, and investment recommendations
• Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement: Serve as a trusted security advisor bridging business stakeholders, AI/ML engineers, IT operations, and information security teams - conducting stakeholder interviews and facilitating knowledge transfer sessions covering AI platform administration, troubleshooting, and operational runbooks
• AI Threat Landscape Monitoring: Continuously track emerging AI security research, adversarial techniques, regulatory developments, and vendor security advisories (e.g., Anthropic, OpenAI, Microsoft