Senior AI & App Security Engineer - Agentic Systems

Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Retirement savings options

Wellness programs

Job summary

CVS Health seeks a Staff Application Security Engineer - AI & Agentic Systems to secure the next generation of AI-enabled applications and agentic workflows. You will partner with engineering, product, platform, and data teams to embed security into design, development, and operation of AI-driven solutions.

As a senior technical contributor, you will define secure design patterns, conduct threat modeling, guide secure development practices, and support responsible AI security controls across the

Qualifications

• 7+ years designing, building, or securing enterprise-scale applications and platforms.
• 5+ years of application security experience, including threat modeling, secure design, code review, and vulnerability management.
• 5+ years of programming experience in Python, Java, JavaScript, C#, or Go.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain application and AI security standards, best practices, and guardrails.
• Promote secure-by-design principles across application and AI development lifecycles.
• Establish secure design patterns for AI agents, prompt management, tool integrations, memory handling, and autonomous workflows.
• Partner with engineering teams to identify and mitigate AI-specific security risks such as prompt injection, model abuse, data leakage, and unauthorized agent actions.
• Serve as a subject matter expert supporting the security of AI-enabled applications and agentic systems.
• Review architectures utilizing large language models, retrieval augmented generation pipelines, AI agents, and AI-powered workflows.
• Define and recommend identity, authorization, data protection, observability, and governance controls for AI environments.

Skills

Enterprise-scale security

Application security

Programming: Python/Java/JS/C#/Go

AI security

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

CVS Health seeks a Staff Application Security Engineer - AI & Agentic Systems to secure the next generation of AI-enabled applications and agentic workflows. You will partner with engineering, product, platform, and data teams to embed security into design, development, and operation of AI-driven solutions.

As a senior technical contributor, you will define secure design patterns, conduct threat modeling, guide secure development practices, and support responsible AI security controls across the