Lead AI Security Engineer - AI Lifecycle Guardian

Citizens; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Citizens is seeking a Principal AI Security Engineer in Irving, TX, to lead security design and implementation for AI-centric solutions. You will collaborate with architects and developers to ensure scalable, secure, and compliant AI systems across hybrid environments.

The role emphasizes safeguarding the full AI lifecycle, incident response leadership, and cross-functional governance alignment with regulatory requirements. Requires strong AI/ML, DevOps, and cloud experience.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data intensive applications or data engineering
• Experience implementing large-scale tech enhancements or pivots
• Excellent understanding of AI/ML patterns and techniques
• Excellent understanding of DevOps
• Understanding of Python and at least one other programming language
• Experience with IT infrastructure and cloud development
• Experience with APIs
• Experience designing highly available and resilient solutions, automation, and performance improvements
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
• Experience in 2–3 of infrastructure, security, DevOps, application development, database technologies, cloud computing

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with engineering teams and governance to align AI security with business goals
• Design, modify, develop and implement software solutions meeting strategic goals
• Incorporate security and scalability into distributed service designs
• Evaluate and prevent vulnerabilities during software development
• Lead incident response for AI systems and potential data exposure events
• Secure AI lifecycle from data ingestion to deployment and runtime
• Strengthen identity and access controls for AI systems
• Secure integrations between AI components and enterprise systems
• Protect data via encryption, tokenization, and privacy-preserving techniques
• Monitor AI systems for anomalies and policy violations
• Harden cloud infrastructure supporting AI workloads

Skills

Data engineering

AI/ML patterns

DevOps

Python

Cloud development

APIs

Security best practices

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Software Engineering / related discipline

Job description

Citizens is seeking a Principal AI Security Engineer in Irving, TX, to lead security design and implementation for AI-centric solutions. You will collaborate with architects and developers to ensure scalable, secure, and compliant AI systems across hybrid environments.

The role emphasizes safeguarding the full AI lifecycle, incident response leadership, and cross-functional governance alignment with regulatory requirements. Requires strong AI/ML, DevOps, and cloud experience.