Production AI Security Engineer

Amazon Web Services (AWS); Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 159,000 - 202,000; Full time

Job summary

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Security Engineer for the AWS Forward Deployed Engineering security team to help secure production AI systems deployed in customer environments. You will write code, review architectures, and implement security controls as part of hands-on delivery.

You will work with senior security engineers, own security deliverables from day one, and collaborate across AI deployments in customer environments, with up to 25% travel to support multiple engagements.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of threat modeling, secure coding, identity management, software development, cryptography, or security experience
• 2+ years troubleshooting systems issues, analyzing logs, or automating basic tasks with command‑line tools
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
• 2+ years scripting, programming, and security code review in common languages
• 2+ years identifying security issues and developing mitigation plans
• 2+ years hands on building AI/agentic systems

Responsibilities

• Conduct security design reviews, code reviews, and architecture assessments for production AI systems under guidance from senior security engineers
• Perform threat modeling and penetration testing for AI/ML applications deployed in customer environments; identify vulnerabilities and fixes before production
• Build and maintain security automation: scanning tools, CI/CD security gates, guardrail testing scripts, secrets detection, and dependency vulnerability checks
• Implement security controls for AI-specific threats: prompt injection prevention, output filtering, data isolation, model API endpoint hardening, and guardrail configuration
• Support security incident response for FDE-delivered production AI systems; assist with triage, root cause analysis, and remediation under senior engineer guidance
• Document security findings, patterns, and remediation guidance as reusable playbooks and runbooks that benefit future FDE engagements
• Contribute to the FDE security accelerator library: reusable modules, templates, and reference configurations that help FDE engineers build secure AI systems faster
• Requires up to 25% travel

Skills

Threat modeling

Secure coding

Identity management

Software development

Automation scripting

AI/agentic systems

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Tools

Python

CI/CD tooling

Cloud security tooling

Job description

Amazon Web Services, Inc. is seeking a Security Engineer for the AWS Forward Deployed Engineering security team to help secure production AI systems deployed in customer environments. You will write code, review architectures, and implement security controls as part of hands-on delivery.

You will work with senior security engineers, own security deliverables from day one, and collaborate across AI deployments in customer environments, with up to 25% travel to support multiple engagements.