Lead MLSecOps Engineer: Secure AI/ML Pipelines (Hybrid)

Motion Recruitment; Roseland (NJ); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

401(k) match

Paid time off

HSA

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Lead MLSecOps Security Engineer to own secure AI/ML development across hybrid environments in the US. The role blends software engineering with advanced AI security, including agentic AI, LLM threat modeling, and CI/CD security integrations.

9–12 month contract-to-hire with onsite in Roseland, NJ or Alpharetta, GA. The ideal candidate brings hands-on Python and backend security, strong communication, and experience securing AI/ML pipelines and workflows.

Qualifications

• 8+ years IT or cybersecurity experience.
• 5+ years hands-on software engineering.
• Strong Python/backend development experience.
• Hands-on AI/ML and MLOps experience.
• Experience with AI coding agents and tools (GitHub Copilot, etc.).
• Understanding of Agentic AI, autonomous workflows and RAG.
• Knowledge of OWASP AI/ML and LLM vulnerabilities.

Responsibilities

• Design and secure AI/ML pipelines for model evaluation, deployment and inference.
• Evaluate and secure AI coding agents and autonomous workflows.
• Develop security guardrails for AI-assisted software development platforms.
• Establish an Agentic Development Lifecycle security framework.
• Assess security risks for models, agents, prompts, datasets, and AI apps.
• Develop Python code and automation for AI/ML security.

Skills

IT security

Software engineering

Python

AI/ML security

Agentic AI / AI coding agents

LLM security

CI/CD security

Cloud/container security

Education

CEH

CISSP

CSSLP

GCIA

GPEN

GWAPT

Tools

MLflow

Kubeflow

SageMaker

Databricks

Job description

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Lead MLSecOps Security Engineer to own secure AI/ML development across hybrid environments in the US. The role blends software engineering with advanced AI security, including agentic AI, LLM threat modeling, and CI/CD security integrations.

9–12 month contract-to-hire with onsite in Roseland, NJ or Alpharetta, GA. The ideal candidate brings hands-on Python and backend security, strong communication, and experience securing AI/ML pipelines and workflows.