Principal AI Security Engineer: AI Guardrails & Modeling

Kyndryl Inc.; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 180,000 - 342,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Comprehensive benefits

Learning & development

Job summary

Kyndryl is seeking a Principal AI Security Engineer to secure internal AI solutions, agents, copilots, model platforms, and frontier AI capabilities. This hands-on senior technical role will write code, build controls, integrate into enterprise platforms, and translate security requirements into reusable guardrails and measurable risk reduction.

The position involves leading engineering depth, conducting AI threat modeling, implementing IAM and data access controls, and mentoring teams across

Qualifications

• 10+ years in security engineering or related fields.
• Experience implementing authentication, authorization, secrets management, API security.
• Experience with AI risk landscape and technical controls.
• Experience with Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud, IaC, and CI/CD.
• Ability to conduct threat modeling and translate findings into engineering solutions.
• Development experience in Python, Java, C#, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy controls for AI applications, agents, copilots, and shared AI platforms.
• Build reusable services, APIs, libraries, policy checks, automation, and platform integrations.
• Implement identity, authorization, secrets, data access, tool-use, egress, rate-limiting, logging, and human-approval controls.
• Perform AI threat modeling and technical security reviews and drive remediation.
• Build adversarial tests and automated checks for prompt injection, unsafe tool execution, misuse, and control bypass.
• Integrate AI security telemetry, detections, alerts, and response workflows.
• Lead through engineering depth, reusable patterns, mentoring, and enterprise influence.

Skills

Security engineering

Application security

Cloud security

Software engineering

Platform engineering

Python

Java

C#

Go

JavaScript/TypeScript

Tools

Azure

AWS

Google Cloud

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD

Security tooling

Job description

Kyndryl is seeking a Principal AI Security Engineer to secure internal AI solutions, agents, copilots, model platforms, and frontier AI capabilities. This hands-on senior technical role will write code, build controls, integrate into enterprise platforms, and translate security requirements into reusable guardrails and measurable risk reduction.

The position involves leading engineering depth, conducting AI threat modeling, implementing IAM and data access controls, and mentoring teams across