Senior AI Runtime Security Lead

Vanguard; Malvern (Chester County); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard seeks a Senior Manager, AI Runtime Security to lead strategy, engineering, and operationalization of runtime protections for enterprise AI systems. You will scale capabilities guarding AI apps and autonomous agents in production, including guardrails, behavioral attestation, and rogue agent detection.

Ideal candidate brings deep cloud security expertise, experience leading enterprise security teams, and a proven track record securing large SaaS environments across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience securing endpoints, cloud platforms and SaaS environments.
• Deep experience with AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP) security architectures
• Experience leading security engineering or cyber operations teams in enterprise environments
• Strong understanding of AI systems, AI runtime controls, and modern AI security risks
• Familiarity with AI guardrails, AI gateways, behavioral monitoring, and runtime enforcement technologies
• Experience integrating security controls into production platforms and operational workflows
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a team of engineers and analysts focused on AI runtime protection and operational AI security controls
• Define and execute strategy for AI runtime security, including guardrails, behavioral attestation, and rogue agent detection
• Operationalize AI runtime controls across AI gateways, APIs, and production environments
• Partner with IT, platform engineering, and cybersecurity teams to integrate detection, response, containment, and kill-switch capabilities
• Build scalable security operations processes to enforce AI runtime protections in real time across deployed AI systems
• Drive integration of runtime telemetry into enterprise monitoring and incident response workflows
• Establish security standards and best practices for securing AI-enabled applications and agentic systems
• Collaborate across architecture, cloud, and engineering teams to embed AI security controls into enterprise platforms

Skills

Security leadership

Cloud security

AI security

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Security monitoring

AWS

Azure

GCP

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Vanguard seeks a Senior Manager, AI Runtime Security to lead strategy, engineering, and operationalization of runtime protections for enterprise AI systems. You will scale capabilities guarding AI apps and autonomous agents in production, including guardrails, behavioral attestation, and rogue agent detection.

Ideal candidate brings deep cloud security expertise, experience leading enterprise security teams, and a proven track record securing large SaaS environments across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.