AVP Penetration Testing — AI/LLM Security Lead

LPL Financial; Fort Mill (SC); On-site; USD 129,000 - 214,000; Full time

Job summary

LPL Financial is seeking an AVP Penetration Tester on the Cyber Security team to lead and execute internal penetration testing focused on LLM, agentic applications, and associated APIs. The role involves hands-on testing, stakeholder collaboration, and delivering remediation guidance across complex systems.

Ideal candidates will have deep technical security expertise, experience guiding pentest efforts end-to-end, and the ability to communicate findings clearly to IT stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience conducting application/API and network-based penetration-testing engagements.

Responsibilities

• Partner with product stakeholders to drive end-to-end pentesting activities.

Skills

Penetration testing

AI/LLM security

Security tooling

Threat modeling

Education

Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in Information Security/Engineering/CS

OSCP/OSI/OSCE/GWAPT/GXPN certification

Tools

Burp Suite

Promptfoo

HexStrike

Claude

CAI

Garak

Pyrit

Kali Linux

Nessus

Metasploit

Cobalt Strike

Mitre Atlas

OWASP Top 10 for LLM

Job description

LPL Financial is seeking an AVP Penetration Tester on the Cyber Security team to lead and execute internal penetration testing focused on LLM, agentic applications, and associated APIs. The role involves hands-on testing, stakeholder collaboration, and delivering remediation guidance across complex systems.

Ideal candidates will have deep technical security expertise, experience guiding pentest efforts end-to-end, and the ability to communicate findings clearly to IT stakeholders.