Senior AI Governance Engineer

Janus Henderson Investors; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Health and wellbeing benefits

Wellhub membership

Volunteer time

Professional development assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Parental leave

Employee events

Beverages and snacks

Job summary

Janus Henderson Investors is hiring for a Senior AI Governance Engineer to embed governance into the platform, including policy-as-code, deployment gates, and secure defaults. You will own identity, access, and permission patterns across agents, models, and tools, while building evidence, telemetry, and evaluation layers for risk and audit needs.

You will collaborate with Risk, Legal, Privacy, and Compliance to translate business requirements into technical design, ensuring compliant, scalable,

Qualifications

• At least six years in software, platform, or security engineering with production experience.
• Strong Python and SQL skills, plus API, IaC, and CI/CD hands-on ability.
• Expertise in identity and access management, authentication, authorization, RBAC, and least privilege.
• Practical knowledge of technical controls, secure defaults, deployment gates, and audit trails.
• Hands-on cloud experience, ideally Azure, with logging and data protection.
• Ability to translate stakeholder needs into concrete technical design.
• Solid understanding of generative AI, agentic systems, prompts, and tool usage.
• Judgement to apply proportionate controls based on actual risk and clear communication.

Responsibilities

• Build governance into the platform through policy-as-code, deployment gates, and secure defaults.
• Design identity, access, and permission patterns across agents, models, and tools.
• Create evidence, telemetry, and evaluation layers to support risk and audit testing.
• Collaborate with Risk, Legal, Privacy, and Compliance to translate needs into technical requirements.

Skills

Software engineering

Python

SQL

APIs

IaC

CI/CD

Identity and access management

Security controls

Azure

Stakeholder management

Generative AI

Agentic systems

Risk-based decision making

Tools

OPA / Rego

Job description

Janus Henderson Investors is hiring for a Senior AI Governance Engineer to embed governance into the platform, including policy-as-code, deployment gates, and secure defaults. You will own identity, access, and permission patterns across agents, models, and tools, while building evidence, telemetry, and evaluation layers for risk and audit needs.

You will collaborate with Risk, Legal, Privacy, and Compliance to translate business requirements into technical design, ensuring compliant, scalable,