Principal AI Security Engineer - GenAI Data Protection

Citizens; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental and vision coverage

Retirement plans

Parental leave

Flexible work arrangements

Education reimbursement

Wellness programs

Generous paid time off

Job summary

Citizens is seeking a Principal Security Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and enterprise rollout of its AI Security and GenAI data protection capability. You will serve as the technical owner of the AI Gateway platform, driving evaluation, deployment, policy engineering, and governance across sanctioned and unsanctioned AI usage.

The role collaborates with Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Technology, Risk, Privacy, Legal, and business teams to reduce data loss risk while enabling

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Information Technology, or related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 7+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity, information security engineering, or related technical disciplines.
• 2+ years of hands on experience with Data Protection, SSE, SASE, CASB, DLP, AI Security, GenAI Security, or similar inline security technologies.
• Direct AI Gateway experience strongly preferred.
• Deep understanding of GenAI data flows and security risks across prompts, uploads, browser traffic, embedded copilots, APIs, AI agents, and third party integrations.
• Strong knowledge of SIEM, SOAR, ITSM, identity management, and security orchestration workflows.

Responsibilities

• Own the end to end AI Gateway capability across evaluation, proof of concept, deployment, configuration, policy tuning, operational support, and continuous improvement.
• Develop phased rollout from monitor mode to blocking using data to establish baselines and controls.
• Engineer and tune controls for GenAI prompts, file uploads, browser traffic, and sanctioned/unsanctioned AI apps.
• Implement inline remediation controls including redaction, quarantine, coaching, warning, and blocking.
• Establish instance aware controls distinguishing corporate vs personal accounts to reduce data leakage risk.
• Integrate AI Gateway telemetry with SIEM, SOAR, ITSM, identity platforms, and data protection solutions.

Skills

Bachelor's degree in CS/InfoSec/IT

7+ years cybersecurity experience

2+ years AI security/Data protection

Experience with enterprise security R

Strong communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

SIEM

SOAR

ITSM

Identity management

Cyera Omni

Netskope AI Security

Python

PowerShell

Job description

Citizens is seeking a Principal Security Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and enterprise rollout of its AI Security and GenAI data protection capability. You will serve as the technical owner of the AI Gateway platform, driving evaluation, deployment, policy engineering, and governance across sanctioned and unsanctioned AI usage.

The role collaborates with Cybersecurity, Data Protection, Technology, Risk, Privacy, Legal, and business teams to reduce data loss risk while enabling