Senior AI Security Architect: Threat Modeling & Defenses

Waters Corporation; Milford (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Waters Corporation, a global leader in life sciences, is seeking a Principal AI Security Analyst to drive security at the intersection of AI and cybersecurity. Lead threat modeling for AI/ML systems, manage AIRS tooling, and shape frameworks ensuring resilience against adversarial attacks across large-scale models.

You will collaborate with ML engineering, platform, and product teams, enforce AI security policies, and advance defenses against model extraction, data poisoning, and prompt

Qualifications

• 8+ years in cybersecurity with 3+ years focused on AI/ML security.
• Hands-on experience with AI security tooling such as AIRS or similar.
• Deep understanding of LLM architectures and threat classes.
• Proficiency in Python; ability to review model code/pipelines.
• Experience with threat modeling frameworks and cross-functional security programs.
• Cloud-native environment experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure).

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end threat modeling for AI/ML systems including LLMs and inference infrastructure.
• Tune and operate AIRS to detect and block adversarial inputs in real time.
• Manage AI Access Security policies and DLP for shadow-AI visibility.
• Implement AI gateway layer for rate limiting, access controls, and observability.

Skills

AI/ML security

Threat modeling

Python

Cloud security

Security program leadership

Tools

Palo Alto AIRS

AI gateway security tools

Job description

Waters Corporation, a global leader in life sciences, is seeking a Principal AI Security Analyst to drive security at the intersection of AI and cybersecurity. Lead threat modeling for AI/ML systems, manage AIRS tooling, and shape frameworks ensuring resilience against adversarial attacks across large-scale models.

You will collaborate with ML engineering, platform, and product teams, enforce AI security policies, and advance defenses against model extraction, data poisoning, and prompt