AI Security & Governance Lead — Secure AI Enablement (Remote)

Alight Solutions; Belleville (IL); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Remote-friendly

Career growth opportunities

Continuing education

Job summary

Alight Solutions is seeking a leader to drive secure AI adoption by defining and evaluating AI‑specific security and risk controls across the AI lifecycle. This role bridges AI engineering, information security, privacy, and risk to manage model risk and data handling concerns.

You will align security guidance with evolving AI patterns, coordinate with third‑party governance, and shape practical controls for responsible AI implementation. Remote work is supported.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience in information security, technology risk, AI governance, model risk management, privacy engineering, or related roles.
• Strong understanding of AI architectures, Machine learning pipelines, Retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), Agentic and tool‑using AI patterns
• Demonstrated ability to translate technical AI and security concepts into clear control expectations and guidance.
• Experience working cross‑functionally with engineering, security, privacy, and risk teams.
• Practical, risk‑based mindset with strong judgment and attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Partnering directly with AI Engineers & Developers, Information Security and governance teams to define AI‑specific security and risk management standards covering AI/ML models, RAG solutions, and agentic architectures.
• Translating enterprise security principles and risk frameworks into AI‑appropriate guidance, addressing topics such as, model access control and abuse prevention, prompt and context security, data leakage, memorization, and inference risks, agent autonomy boundaries and safeguards.
• Define AI runtime monitoring and incident response expectations, aligned to (and extending as needed) existing incident response playbooks.
• Ensuring AI security guidance remains aligned with evolving technology patterns, external expectations, and internal architectures, and external expectations (e.g. NIST AI RMF/CSF, NYDFS AI Cybersecurity, ISO/IEC 42001)
• Contributing to the broader AI policy hierarchy by ensuring security requirements are clearly mapped to AI governance policies, controls and standards.

Skills

AI governance

Security risk management

Model risk management

Privacy engineering

Automation & controls

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Job description

Alight Solutions is seeking a leader to drive secure AI adoption by defining and evaluating AI‑specific security and risk controls across the AI lifecycle. This role bridges AI engineering, information security, privacy, and risk to manage model risk and data handling concerns.

You will align security guidance with evolving AI patterns, coordinate with third‑party governance, and shape practical controls for responsible AI implementation. Remote work is supported.