Remote AI Security Engineer – Guardrails & Tooling Expert

Alpaca; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary & Stock Options

Health Benefits

New Hire Home-Office Setup: One-time $

Monthly Stipend: $150 per month via a 

Job summary

Alpaca is seeking an AI Security Engineer to own technical security controls for how we use AI. You will secure AI agents, guardrails, and integrations, and help develop AI-powered security tooling across a distributed security team.

You will ensure consistent controls as AI use expands and collaborate with engineers, DevOps, GRC, and AI enablement groups. The role emphasizes identity and access controls for AI systems, security logging, threat detection, and incident response.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of security engineering, application security, or cloud security roles.
• Hands-on experience securing LLM applications, AI agents, or AI developer tools.
• Understanding of AI-specific risks, such as prompt injection, data leakage, excessive agency, and insecure tool use.
• Experience with identity and access controls for services and non-human identities, including OAuth, service accounts, and secrets management.
• Programming experience in Python or another general-purpose language.
• Experience with CI/CD security checks and cloud-native deployments.
• Experience with security operations or incident response.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, especially when explaining risk to non-security builders.
• Comfortable working cross-functional and making pragmatic security decisions.
• Willing to participate in an on-call rotation.
• Experience building AI-assisted workflows for security operations.
• Experience building security telemetry for AI systems.

Responsibilities

• Define AI access controls and secure AI platforms, including guardrails and logging.
• Develop and enforce security requirements for internal AI applications and integrations.
• Review new AI applications for security risks and provide practical requirements for builders.
• Build AI-powered tooling to support detection, investigation, and response.
• Ensure telemetry and logging requirements for AI systems; enforce approved configurations.
• Lead AI-specific aspects of security incidents, such as data exposure or agent misuse.

Skills

Security engineering

AI security

LLM security

IAM for non-human identities

Python

CI/CD security

Security operations

Communication

On-call readiness

AI workflows

Security telemetry

Tools

Kubernetes

Python

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Alpaca is seeking an AI Security Engineer to own technical security controls for how we use AI. You will secure AI agents, guardrails, and integrations, and help develop AI-powered security tooling across a distributed security team.

You will ensure consistent controls as AI use expands and collaborate with engineers, DevOps, GRC, and AI enablement groups. The role emphasizes identity and access controls for AI systems, security logging, threat detection, and incident response.