Principal AI Security Engineer, Cyber Defense

Servicenow; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 221,000 - 387,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health plans

401(k) match

ESPP

Family leave

Job summary

ServiceNow in Santa Clara, CA seeks a hands-on Cyber Defense Engineering architect to tackle hard, undefined security problems for a platform used by thousands of enterprises. You’ll craft threat models, AI security controls, and governance, partnering with the product AI security team to apply frontier research internally.

Senior experience is required: 15+ years in security, 5+ years in software architecture, and a proven ability to set technical direction across AI security, IAM, and

Qualifications

• 15+ years in security engineering with AI-threat focus.
• 5+ years of software engineering and enterprise-scale architecture.
• Ability to set technical direction across multiple security domains.

Responsibilities

• Architect Internal AI Security Strategy for internal AI adoption.
• Drive secure implementation with IAM, endpoint, cloud, and infra teams.
• Lead AI threat modeling for complex internal AI surfaces.
• Define governance and policy for sanctioned and shadow AI.
• Collaborate with AI security research to apply findings internally.
• Modernize blue and red team practices and security automation.
• Mentor engineers across Cyber Defense Engineering.

Skills

AI security

Threat modeling

Security architecture

Enterprise security

Education

Bachelor's / Master's / PhD in CS or related field

Tools

LangChain

LangGraph

Job description

ServiceNow in Santa Clara, CA seeks a hands-on Cyber Defense Engineering architect to tackle hard, undefined security problems for a platform used by thousands of enterprises. You’ll craft threat models, AI security controls, and governance, partnering with the product AI security team to apply frontier research internally.

Senior experience is required: 15+ years in security, 5+ years in software architecture, and a proven ability to set technical direction across AI security, IAM, and