Cybersecurity Principal | AI Security and Cyber Fraud Analytics (Remote)

The Home Depot; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Cybersecurity Principal Engineer to lead security for AI-driven and agentic systems. You will build advanced fraud detection and analytics models, and identify emerging threats such as deepfakes and AI impersonation.

You will drive adoption of AI security frameworks including NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001 while collaborating with engineering and business teams to sustain a secure environment for associates and customers.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing security controls in agentic-systems.
• Experience designing analytics pipelines and dashboards.
• Experience building Fraud-analytics systems and detection models.
• Experience detecting adversarial AI such as deepfakes and impersonation.
• Experience operationalizing AI governance and security frameworks (NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001, OWASP AIBOM).

Responsibilities

• Lead efforts to secure AI-driven and agentic systems and implement security controls.
• Develop advanced fraud detection models and analytics capabilities.
• Collaborate across teams to reduce vulnerabilities and incident risk.
• Align with enterprise security programs and governance.

Skills

Agentic-security controls

Analytics pipelines design

Fraud analytics & AI models

Adversarial AI detection

AI governance frameworks

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

NIST AI RMF

ISO/IEC 42001

OWASP AIBOM (CycloneDX AI extension)

Anomaly detection tools

Job description

Position Purpose

The Home Depot is hiring a Cybersecurity Principal Engineer to lead cutting-edge efforts in securing AI-driven and agentic systems. This role focuses on building advanced fraud detection and analytics models, identifying emerging threats like deepfakes and AI impersonation, and driving the implementation of leading AI security frameworks such as NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001.

Position Purpose

Req181344 The Home Depot is hiring a Cybersecurity Principal Engineer to lead cutting-edge efforts in securing AI-driven and agentic systems. This role focuses on building advanced fraud detection and analytics models, identifying emerging threats like deepfakes and AI impersonation, and driving the implementation of leading AI security frameworks such as NIST AI RMF and ISO/IEC 42001.

Qualifications/Knowledge

• Expertise designing and implementing security controls in agentic-systems: (e.g. non-human identity (NHI) security; least-agency authorization; agentic-system tools and tools specific-controls.
• Experience designing and implementing analytics pipelines and dashboards.
• Experience designing and implementing Fraud-analytics systems and detection models: (e.g. graph learning and link analysis; sequence and anomaly detection models; custom NLP embeddings, model calibration, drift monitoring, and designing & implementing explainable Ai).
• Experience designing and implementing detections for Adversarial use of Ai: (e.g. AI-impersonations attaks, deepfakes, and voice-cloning detection & prevention research and adversarial tooling.
• Experience operationalizing AI governance and Security Frameworks: NIST AI RMF and Generative AI Profile, ISO/IEC 42001, OWASP’s AIBOM (CycloneDX AI extension).

Protecting what matters most to our associates and consumers by securing our sensitive data and critical assets from current and emerging threats. At The Home Depot Cybersecurity consists of Architecture, Governance, Identity & Access Management, Internal Threat Operations, Issue and Compliance Management, Risk Assessment/Advisory, Security Consulting, Security Operations, Service Optimization and Strategic Planning.

Key Responsibilities

• 100% Deliver Execution, Plans & Aligns - Review, analyze, identify and provide solutions to mitigate potential security control gaps enterprise wide; Collaborate across teams to reduce vulnerabilities, risks and incident management; Partner with engineers, technology and business partners to implement and maintain a secure environment.

Direct Manager/Direct Reports

• This position typically reports to Distinguished Engineer or Sr. Director
• This position has 0 Direct Reports

Travel Requirements

• No travel required.

Physical Requirements

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Minimum Education

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Minimum Years Of Work Experience

• 10+

Competencies

• Decision Quality
• Plans and Aligns
• Develops Talent
• Manages Conflict