Director, AI Security & Secure-by-Design Architecture

employerdirecthealthcare; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Lantern is seeking a Director, Application & AI Security to own security across software and AI systems, enabling fast shipping with safe defaults. You will lead a growing team including security engineers, architecture, DevSecOps and product security, building secure-design standards and risk-based gatekeeping while protecting PHI and data-egress for third-party models.

Location: Hybrid in Dallas, TX, requiring 3 days per week in the office, with a mandate to scale secure practices across

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 and tool-use risk, and data-egress control for third-party model providers, with working fluency in the OWASP LLM

Responsibilities

• Own application security across the development lifecycle, covering static, dynamic, and interactive analysis (SAST/DAST/SCA/IAST), code and dependency security, API security, and runtime protections such as WAF and API gateways, all delivered through engineering teams rather than filed as findings.
• Own AI and ML security, including model and agent security, prompt-injection and tool-use risk, and data-egress controls for third‑party model providers, plus continuous AI security posture management informed by the OWASP LLM Top 10, MITRE ATLAS, and AI risk‑management standards (NIST AI RMF, ISO/IEC 42001).
• Own security architecture and threat modeling, including secure‑by‑design review and ownership of cryptographic standards.
• Own DevSecOps and pipeline security, with scanning as a default in CI/CD and MLOps/LLMOps pipelines, release gating calibrated to risk, and software supply chain and SBOM practice.
• Own the security‑review intake as a single front door with risk‑based triage, reported against a turnaround commitment, so security accelerates the business rather than bottlenecking it.
• Own the application and AI security tool stack and the secure‑design standards behind it.

Skills

Application security leadership

AI/ML security

Security architecture

DevSecOps

Team management

Job description

Lantern is seeking a Director, Application & AI Security to own security across software and AI systems, enabling fast shipping with safe defaults. You will lead a growing team including security engineers, architecture, DevSecOps and product security, building secure-design standards and risk-based gatekeeping while protecting PHI and data-egress for third-party models.

Location: Hybrid in Dallas, TX, requiring 3 days per week in the office, with a mandate to scale secure practices across