Director, AI & Application Security

Lantern; New York (NY); Hybride; USD 200 000 - 275 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Medical Insurance

Vision Insurance

Short & Long Term Disability

Life Insurance

401k with company match

Flexible Time Off

Résumé du poste

Lantern is seeking a Director of Application & AI Security to lead a growing security function in a hybrid New York, NY environment. You will own application security across the full development lifecycle and lead AI/ML security efforts, including model security, data-egress controls, and secure design standards across engineering teams.

You will drive secure SDLC processes, threat modeling, and risk-based triage while building out a team of experts in security architecture, DevSecOps, and

Qualifications

• A minimum of 8 years application or product security.
• A minimum of 3 years leading a team with function-level accountability.
• Demonstrated AI and ML security ownership at production scale, including model and agent security, prompt-injection defense, tool-use risk, or data-egress control for third-party LLM providers, with familiarity with OWASP LLM Top 10 and AI risk-management standards.
• Secure SDLC leadership across static, dynamic, and interactive analysis, dependency and SBOM practice, and remediation delivered through engineering teams.
• Security architecture and threat-modeling depth, including secure-by-design reviews.
• DevSecOps and pipeline security with default scanning in CI/CD and risk-calibrated release gating.
• API security experience on platforms handling regulated data.
• Track record of delivering security as paved roads and secure defaults rather than gates, with evidence of adoption.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field or equivalent professional experience.

Responsabilités

• Own application security across the development lifecycle, covering static, dynamic, and interactive analysis, code and dependency security, API security, and runtime protections.
• Own AI and ML security, including model and agent security, prompt-injection risk, tool-use risk, and data-egress controls for third-party model providers, with continuous AI security posture management.
• Own security architecture and threat modeling, including secure-by-design reviews and cryptographic standards ownership.
• Own DevSecOps and pipeline security, with default scanning in CI/CD and MLOps/LLMOps pipelines, release gating calibrated to risk, and SBOM practice.
• Own the security-review intake as a front door with risk-based triage and turnaround commitments.
• Own the application and AI security tool stack and the secure-design standards behind it.

Connaissances

Application security

Team leadership

AI/ML security

Secure SDLC

Security architecture

DevSecOps

API security

Security roadmap

Formation

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

Outils

Snyk

GitHub Advanced Security

AI security posture management

Code scanning

Description du poste

Lantern is seeking a Director of Application & AI Security to lead a growing security function in a hybrid New York, NY environment. You will own application security across the full development lifecycle and lead AI/ML security efforts, including model security, data-egress controls, and secure design standards across engineering teams.

You will drive secure SDLC processes, threat modeling, and risk-based triage while building out a team of experts in security architecture, DevSecOps, and