Chief Security & AI Governance Architect

Enthought, Inc.; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful impact

Agentic AI exposure

World-class colleagues

Continuous learning

Global offices in Austin, Cambridge, &

Flexible hybrid work

Competitive compensation and benefits

Job summary

Enthought, Inc. in Austin, TX is seeking a Head of Security (AI & Infrastructure) to own information security posture, policy, and day-to-day security operations. You will shape access controls for agent usage, protect customer data and IP, and author AI and security policies auditors verify.

The role blends hands-on security with policy and governance in a practical, agent-first environment. The position leads incident response, IAM design, audits agent activity, and reviews IaC, CI/CD, and

Qualifications

• Experience designing security for cloud-native environments.
• Ability to translate customer requirements into concrete controls.
• Proven track record in security policy development and enforcement.
• Hands-on security operations leadership in AI-enabled projects.

Responsibilities

• Design end-to-end security and AI governance for cloud infra and deployments.
• Own AI policy including approved tools, providers, and data-handling rules.
• Define guardrails for agent operations, credentials, audit trails, and blast radius.
• Prevent data leakage via prompts, tool calls, and web searches from agent actions.
• Establish audit capability over agent activity for verifiability.
• Evaluate MCP servers, agent tools, and AI services with automated assessments.
• Own security standards and configuration baselines across systems and deployments.
• Lead incident response and maintain the IR plan.

Skills

Security governance

Cloud architecture

Identity and access management

Incident response

AI governance

Policy writing

Tools

MCP servers

AI services

CI/CD tools

Secrets management

Job description

Enthought, Inc. in Austin, TX is seeking a Head of Security (AI & Infrastructure) to own information security posture, policy, and day-to-day security operations. You will shape access controls for agent usage, protect customer data and IP, and author AI and security policies auditors verify.

The role blends hands-on security with policy and governance in a practical, agent-first environment. The position leads incident response, IAM design, audits agent activity, and reviews IaC, CI/CD, and