Remote Director, AI Security Strategy & Risk

digitalocean98; United States; Remote; USD 230,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligibility

Equity compensation

Job summary

DigitalOcean is seeking a remote Principal Engineer focused on securing AI/ML systems at cloud scale, reporting to the VP, Deputy CISO. You will lead AI security strategy, adversarial testing, and governance while partnering with product security, engineering, and data science teams, and serve as internal escalation point for AI security risk.

Responsibilities include defining AI security strategy and multi-year roadmap, building AI risk and governance framework, leading adversarial testing,

Qualifications

• 10+ years in cybersecurity with 4-5 years focused on AI/ML security in production cloud environments.
• Demonstrated track record of defining and driving AI or security programs at an organizational level.
• Strong programming skills in Python and Go, with a track record of building security tooling and automation.
• Hands-on experience with AI red-team tooling and model supply-chain frameworks.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Mathematics, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the AI security strategy and multi-year roadmap, including risk prioritization across the portfolio.
• Architect and lead the AI Risk & Governance framework, establishing policies, standards, and controls for responsible AI/ML development and deployment.
• Lead adversarial testing and AI red teaming including jailbreaking, prompt injection, evasion, and poisoning scenarios.
• Threat-model across the AI lifecycle: data ingestion, training and fine-tuning, evaluation, model serving, RAG, agent frameworks, and post-deployment monitoring.
• Build, deploy, and serve in-house AI/ML models, guardrails, tooling, and automations alongside data science teams.
• Represent AI security at executive and board-level briefings, communicating risk posture in business terms.
• Lead engagement with the external AI security community and define the organization's position on emerging topics like agentic AI and model supply chain risk.

Skills

Adversarial ML

Python

Go

Security tooling

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Info Security/Math

Tools

AI red-team tooling

Model supply-chain frameworks

Job description

DigitalOcean is seeking a remote Principal Engineer focused on securing AI/ML systems at cloud scale, reporting to the VP, Deputy CISO. You will lead AI security strategy, adversarial testing, and governance while partnering with product security, engineering, and data science teams, and serve as internal escalation point for AI security risk.

Responsibilities include defining AI security strategy and multi-year roadmap, building AI risk and governance framework, leading adversarial testing,