Forward-Deployed AI Security Engineer

Amazon Inc.; Mountain View (CA); On-site; USD 167,000 - 213,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a hands-on Security Engineer for AWS Forward Deployed Engineering to secure production AI systems deployed in customer environments. You will write code, review architectures, and test systems, owning real security deliverables from day one.

Mentorship is available as you learn AI security by doing it at enterprise scale. Role entails security reviews, tooling development, and incident response with up to 25% travel.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of threat modeling, secure coding, identity management, and related security experience.
• 2+ years troubleshooting systems issues, logs, or automation using command line tools.
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 2+ years scripting, programming, and security code review in common languages.
• 2+ years identifying security issues and developing mitigation plans.
• 2+ years hands-on building AI/agentic systems.

Responsibilities

• Conduct security design reviews, code reviews, and architecture assessments for production AI systems.
• Perform threat modeling and penetration testing for AI/ML applications deployed in customer environments; identify vulnerabilities and work with engineers to fix.
• Build and maintain security automation: scanning tools, CI/CD security gates, guardrail testing scripts, secrets detection, and dependency checks.
• Implement security controls for AI-specific threats: prompt injection prevention, output filtering, data isolation, and model endpoint hardening.
• Support security incident response for FDE-delivered production AI systems; assist with triage, root cause analysis, and remediation.
• Document security findings, patterns, and remediation guidance as reusable playbooks and runbooks.
• Contribute to the FDE security accelerator library: reusable modules, templates, and reference configurations.
• Requires up to 25% travel.

Skills

Threat modeling

Secure coding

Security reviews

Python scripting

IAM policy

AI/agentic systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

AWS technologies

CI/CD security tools

Job description

Amazon.com Services LLC is seeking a hands-on Security Engineer for AWS Forward Deployed Engineering to secure production AI systems deployed in customer environments. You will write code, review architectures, and test systems, owning real security deliverables from day one.

Mentorship is available as you learn AI security by doing it at enterprise scale. Role entails security reviews, tooling development, and incident response with up to 25% travel.