Remote AI Security Engineer — Secure Dev & Threat Modeling

Society of Defense Financial Management; San Antonio, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 131,000 - 237,000; Full time

Job summary

Kudu Dynamics, a Leidos Owned Company, seeks an AI Security Integration Engineer to own the security posture of our environments where we build, test, and deliver advanced AI-cyber capabilities. You will be embedded with software engineers, reverse engineers, and vulnerability researchers, hardening the infrastructure, supply chains and pipelines while guiding secure development.

The role focuses on bridging traditional security with programmatic defense, scaling threat detection, and leading

Qualifications

• 15+ years hands-on experience securing and hardening Linux systems (OS and network).
• Expertise in at least one scripting language (Python preferred).
• Knowledge of network protocols, cryptographic fundamentals, and key management.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and containerization (Ansible/Terraform, Docker/Kubernetes).
• Experience administering or securing a CI/CD system (GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar).

Responsibilities

• Own the security posture of environments where we build, test, and deliver AI capabilities.
• Embed with software engineers, reverse engineers, and vulnerability researchers to harden infrastructure.
• Guide build integrity and supply chain reviews for threat modeling of tooling.
• Maintain tool security posture using continuous ATO review workflows and pipelines.
• Support ATO and continuous vulnerability management.

Skills

Security engineering

Tooling security

Security ownership

Hardening

Cloud/on-prem security

Threat modelling

NIST RMF

Linux security

Python

Networking cryptography

IaC / Containers

CI/CD security

Accredited environments

Penetration testing

SIEM

Embedded systems

Reverse engineering

Certifications

Agent identity

Sandboxing

AI RMF

LLM for compliance

Tools

Ansible/Terraform

Docker/Kubernetes

Job description

Kudu Dynamics, a Leidos Owned Company, seeks an AI Security Integration Engineer to own the security posture of our environments where we build, test, and deliver advanced AI-cyber capabilities. You will be embedded with software engineers, reverse engineers, and vulnerability researchers, hardening the infrastructure, supply chains and pipelines while guiding secure development.

The role focuses on bridging traditional security with programmatic defense, scaling threat detection, and leading