Senior AI Security Architect - Secure AI & Cloud Systems

State Street; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

State Street is seeking an AI Security Architect to design, implement, and review security controls for AI, ML, and GenAI across its technology environment. You will collaborate with engineering, product security, and platform teams to ensure secure, compliant delivery of AI capabilities.

The role targets security professionals with solid foundations in application, cloud, or product security who want to deepen expertise in AI security architecture and risk management.

Qualifications

• 5–7 years of experience in application security, product security, cloud security, or security engineering.
• Experience securing cloud-native applications or platforms in an enterprise environment.
• Exposure to AI/ML or data-driven systems, including model usage, APIs, or analytics platforms.
• Familiarity with secure software development practices and DevSecOps concepts.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the design and implementation of secure architecture patterns for AI/ML and Generative AI systems, including data pipelines, model access, and AI-enabled applications.
• Support the development and documentation of AI security standards, reference architectures, and guardrails.
• Participate in architecture and design reviews for AI-related initiatives, providing security guidance under senior architect direction.
• Partner with engineering teams to ensure security requirements are considered early in solution design.
• Perform AI-focused threat modeling for AI services, models, and data flows.
• Identify security risks such as data leakage, prompt injection, insecure model access, OSS vulnerabilities, and misuse scenarios.
• Work with senior architects and security partners to recommend appropriate mitigations and compensating controls.
• Support integration of AI security controls into software development and DevSecOps workflows.
• Assist in defining security requirements and validation checks for AI pipelines and platforms.
• Help develop repeatable patterns and templates that enable teams to adopt AI securely with less friction.
• Assist with security reviews for emerging AI capabilities, including GenAI tools, internal AI services, and developer productivity use cases.
• Stay informed on AI security trends, tooling, and common risk patterns through research and internal knowledge sharing.
• Contribute ideas and observations on improving AI security practices across the organization.
• Ensure AI security designs align with internal policies and external standards (e.g., NIST, ISO, FFIEC concepts).
• Support audit, risk, and compliance efforts by helping document architecture decisions and controls.

Skills

AI security concepts

Security risk assessment

Threat modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or related field

Relevant security or cloud certifications

Job description

State Street is seeking an AI Security Architect to design, implement, and review security controls for AI, ML, and GenAI across its technology environment. You will collaborate with engineering, product security, and platform teams to ensure secure, compliant delivery of AI capabilities.

The role targets security professionals with solid foundations in application, cloud, or product security who want to deepen expertise in AI security architecture and risk management.