Remote Enterprise AI Security Lead

Affirm; Chicago (IL); Remote; USD 195,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Stipends for tech setup

Flexible time off

Job summary

Affirm seeks a seasoned security engineer to design and oversee security architecture for AI/LLM systems, ensuring secure data flows, prompts, and tool permissions from design to deployment.

You will build guardrails, threat models, and policy-as-code, collaborating with Legal, Privacy, Compliance, IT and Engineering to scale risk-aware AI adoption. Remote-first in the US with strong compensation and benefits.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, evaluating, and maintaining security architecture for AI/LLM systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise AI security review process evaluating architecture and data flows, and embed security requirements into design stages.
• Threat model AI/LLM systems and data flows for risks and remediation.
• Review source code, prompts, configurations, and tool manifests; help build security-focused test cases and eval scenarios.
• Design and build guardrails and tooling for AI systems permission boundaries, authn/authz, data handling, logging, and policy-as-code.

Skills

Security engineer

Threat modeling

AI/LLM security

Enterprise security

Code review

Python

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS

OAuth2

SAML

Tools

Notion AI

Slack AI

Google Workspace AI

GitHub Copilot

CASB

IDP/Okta

OpenAI

Anthropic

GitHub

Jira

Job description

Affirm seeks a seasoned security engineer to design and oversee security architecture for AI/LLM systems, ensuring secure data flows, prompts, and tool permissions from design to deployment.

You will build guardrails, threat models, and policy-as-code, collaborating with Legal, Privacy, Compliance, IT and Engineering to scale risk-aware AI adoption. Remote-first in the US with strong compensation and benefits.