Lead AI Security Engineer — GenAI Data Protection

Citizens; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Retirement plan

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

Citizens is seeking a Principal Security Engineer to lead AI Security and GenAI data protection across the enterprise. The role focuses on owning the AI Gateway platform, driving evaluation, deployment, policy engineering, and governance in collaboration with Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Risk and Legal teams.

The Hybrid role operates across multiple hubs with expectations to balance security, usability, and business objectives while enabling responsible AI adoption.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/InfoSec/IT or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end AI Gateway capability across evaluation, deployment, and operations.
• Roll out phased AI security controls from monitoring to blocking and remediation.
• Engineer controls for GenAI prompts, file uploads, browser traffic, copilots, and apps.
• Implement inline remediation: redaction, quarantine, coaching, warning, blocking.
• Establish instance-aware controls to distinguish corporate vs personal accounts.
• Assess AI integration risks including MCP, non-human identities and third party integrations.
• Integrate AI Gateway telemetry with SIEM, SOAR, ITSM, identity platforms and data protection tools.
• Define governance standards, policy lifecycle, escalation paths, and ownership models.
• Measure program effectiveness: coverage, policy accuracy, false positives/negatives, audit evidence quality.
• Partner with leaders to implement coaching/enforcement with minimal disruption.
• Stay current on AI security threats and GenAI data loss trends.
• Contribute to standards, training materials, and enterprise communications.
• Support risk, audit, and regulatory readiness with defensible security evidence.

Skills

Bachelor's degree in CS/InfoSec/IT or,

7+ years in cybersecurity/InfoSec

2+ years in Data Protection/GenAI/AI-S

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

CISSP or CCSP or CISM or equivalent

Tools

SIEM

SOAR

ITSM

identity management

Job description

Citizens is seeking a Principal Security Engineer to lead AI Security and GenAI data protection across the enterprise. The role focuses on owning the AI Gateway platform, driving evaluation, deployment, policy engineering, and governance in collaboration with Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Risk and Legal teams.

The Hybrid role operates across multiple hubs with expectations to balance security, usability, and business objectives while enabling responsible AI adoption.