Hands-On AI Production Security Engineer

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Boston (MA); On-site; USD 159,000 - 202,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) matching

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. seeks a Security Engineer for AWS Forward Deployed Engineering to secure production AI systems deployed in customer environments. You will conduct security reviews, write tooling, model threats, and implement controls that protect AI systems built by FDE engineers.

This hands-on security engineering role focuses on code development, architecture reviews, and testing, with mentorship from senior engineers. Up to 25% travel to customer sites is expected.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of threat modeling experience, secure coding, identity management and authentication, software development, cryptography, system administration and network security experience
• 2+ years of troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks using command line tools (non‑internship) experience
• 2+ years of (non‑internship) scripting, programming, and security code review in common programming languages experience
• 2+ years of work in identifying security issues and risks, and developing mitigation plans experience
• 2+ years hands on building AI/agentic systems

Responsibilities

• Conduct security design reviews, code reviews, and architecture assessments for production AI systems under guidance from senior security engineers
• Perform threat modeling and penetration testing for AI/ML applications deployed in customer environments; identify vulnerabilities and work with engineers to implement fixes before production release
• Build and maintain security automation: scanning tools, CI/CD security gates, guardrail testing scripts, secrets detection, and dependency vulnerability checks
• Implement security controls for AI‑specific threats: prompt injection prevention, output filtering, data isolation, model API endpoint hardening, and guardrail configuration
• 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

Skills

Threat modeling

Secure coding

Identity management

AI/agentic systems

Security code review

Scripting

Troubleshooting logs

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

AWS technologies

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. seeks a Security Engineer for AWS Forward Deployed Engineering to secure production AI systems deployed in customer environments. You will conduct security reviews, write tooling, model threats, and implement controls that protect AI systems built by FDE engineers.

This hands-on security engineering role focuses on code development, architecture reviews, and testing, with mentorship from senior engineers. Up to 25% travel to customer sites is expected.