Automotive Security Backend AI Engineer (f/m/x)

BMW Group; New Germany (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation pay

Christmas bonus

Profit sharing

Flexible hours

6 weeks annual leave

Overtime pay

BMW & MINI discounts

Benefits portal

Job summary

The BMW Group in Minnesota is seeking an Automotive Security Backend AI Engineer to advance our agentic AI toolchains for vulnerability assessment of backend systems. You will design AI-driven methods to identify vulnerabilities in source code and backend functionalities and contribute to scalable security analyses across the platform.

Response will include CI/CD automation with GitHub Actions/GitLab CI and IaC tooling, plus collaboration with security experts and software engineers to

Qualifications

• University degree in Computer Science or related IT field.
• Several years of professional Automotive Cybersecurity experience.
• Experience building and maintaining agentic AI toolchains.
• Experience with static/dynamic code analysis, fuzzing, and penetration testing tools.
• Hands-on experience with AWS/Azure, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD and IaC tools.
• Business-fluent German and English language skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain an agentic AI toolchain for automated vulnerability assessment of backend systems.
• Design automated methods for identifying vulnerabilities in source code and backend functionalities using AI models.
• Expand AI-powered analysis, fuzzing, and penetration testing workflows to enhance security capabilities.
• Integrate new analysis techniques, models, and AI agents into the existing toolchain.
• Design intuitive frontends to enable security experts and engineers to leverage the toolchain.
• Automate build, deployment, and testing with CI/CD pipelines and IaC frameworks.
• Implement closed-loop feedback to optimize future analysis cycles.

Skills

Automotive cybersecurity

AI toolchains

Static/dynamic analysis

Fuzzing

Penetration testing

Cloud platforms

Containerization

CI/CD

German & English

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Job description

Innovation Is Imagining What No One Else Can.At the BMW Group, everything starts with passion. It turns a profession into a vocation. It drives us to keep reinventing mobility and bring innovative ideas onto the roads. Enthusiasm for joint projects turns a team into a strong unit where every opinion is valued. It is only when expertise, highly professional processes and enjoyment of work unite that we can shape the future together.Our team is responsible for IT security across the entire ConnectedDrive Offboard Platform. We are a multidisciplinary group of internal software engineers and product owners who develop and operate cybersecurity processes and solutions, while driving IT security governance across the platform.

What awaits you?

• You develop and maintain an agentic AI toolchain for the automated vulnerability assessment of our backend systems.
• You design automated methods for identifying vulnerabilities in source code and backend functionalities using both commercial and open-source AI models.
• By expanding AI-powered analysis, fuzzing, and penetration testing workflows, you continuously enhance our security assessment capabilities.
• You integrate new analysis techniques, models, and AI agents into the existing toolchain in a targeted and scalable manner.
• Through the design of intuitive frontends, you enable both security experts and software engineers to easily leverage the capabilities of the toolchain.
• You automate build, deployment, and testing processes using CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and Infrastructure-as-Code frameworks (e.g., Terraform, Ansible).
• In addition, you implement closed-loop feedback and learning mechanisms to continuously optimize future analysis cycles.

What should you bring along?

• University degree in Computer Science or a comparable IT-related field.
• Several years of professional experience in Automotive Cybersecurity.
• Strong expertise in building, operating, and maintaining agentic AI toolchains using both commercial and open-source technologies.
• Experience in developing or operating complex security toolchains (e.g., static and dynamic code analysis, fuzzing, and penetration testing tools).
• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure), containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker/Kubernetes), as well as CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions/GitLab CI).
• Business-fluent German and English language skills.

What we offer?

• Challenging projects with which we are shaping the mobility of tomorrow together.
• Wide range of personal and professional development opportunities.
• Attractive, fair and performance-related remuneration.
• High level of job security.
• Annual special payments such as vacation pay, Christmas bonus, and profit sharing.
• Flexible working hours including 6 weeks annual leave and overtime compensation.
• Discounted BMW & MINI conditions.
• Many other benefits at bmw.jobs/benefits

Start date: from now on

Working hours: Full-time

If you apply, the next stages of the recruiting process include online testing and an interview with the hiring manager (either virtual or in person).

At the BMW Group, we place great importance on equal treatment and equal opportunities. Our recruiting decisions are based on the personality, experience, and skills of the applicants.

Learn more here.

Automotive Security Backend AI Engineer (f/m/x)