Senior AI Security Engineer: Build Safe AI

EY; Grand Rapids (MI); Hybrid; USD 107,000 - 177,000; Full time

Job summary

EY seeks a security professional to shape AI governance across data, tools, and processes. You will embed security throughout the lifecycle, prove controls under adversarial conditions, and replace one‑off reviews with reusable, measurable patterns and evidence.

You will work with product and engineering teams to design practical security controls, build reusable patterns, and support risk‑aware decision making while ensuring delivery alignment and business value.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant security experience across product, cloud, platform, or detection security.
• Threat modeling and turning attack paths into practical engineering measures.
• Experience securing modern applications, cloud environments, identities, data, and pipelines.
• Hands‑on automation: security tests, telemetry, reference implementations.

Responsibilities

• Set the security direction with reusable AI security patterns and threat models.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to identify attack paths and shape controls.
• Design practical patterns for identity, access, isolation, approvals, and recovery.
• Embed security across data lifecycle ensuring confidentiality, integrity, provenance, and access control.
• Integrate automated security tests, policy gates, and traceable changes into pipelines.
• Run focused red-team exercises and translate findings into repeatable tests and patterns.
• Provide clear evidence and actionable guidance to improve platform security.
• Advise on residual risk with concise technical recommendations while maintaining risk ownership.

Skills

Security engineering

AI threat judgment

Control engineering

Adversarial mindset

Automation capability

Pragmatic influence

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

EY seeks a security professional to shape AI governance across data, tools, and processes. You will embed security throughout the lifecycle, prove controls under adversarial conditions, and replace one‑off reviews with reusable, measurable patterns and evidence.

You will work with product and engineering teams to design practical security controls, build reusable patterns, and support risk‑aware decision making while ensuring delivery alignment and business value.