Senior AI Security Engineer — Cloud & ML

Toyota Motor Credit Corporation; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid holidays and PTO

Relocation assistance

Tuition reimbursement

Job summary

Toyota Financial Services is seeking an experienced cybersecurity professional to join our security engineering team in Plano, TX. You will configure, monitor, and refine AI security controls across enterprise cloud environments, partnering with data science and engineering teams to ensure secure AI deployments.

The role demands hands-on experience with AI/ML security, cloud security principles, and the ability to communicate complex risks to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 4–6 years of experience in cybersecurity, cloud security, or security engineering.
• Hands-on experience with cloud-based AI/ML services and platforms.
• Strong understanding of cloud security principles, architectures, and controls in enterprise environments.
• Experience configuring and operationalizing security detection and response tooling.
• Ability to conduct security architecture reviews and communicate findings to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Configure, deploy, and maintain AI-driven detection and response capabilities across the enterprise security environment.
• Monitor AI security tooling for anomalous behavior, false positives, and detection efficacy, tuning policies and rules to optimize performance.
• Develop and refine detection policies, response playbooks, and automated workflows for AI-powered threat identification.
• Conduct architecture reviews of AI and machine learning solutions proposed by engineering and data science teams.
• Provide security guidance and best practices to cross-functional teams adopting cloud-based AI services.
• Evaluate and recommend security controls for large language model deployments, including prompt injection mitigation, data leakage prevention, and model access governance.
• Partner with cloud engineering teams to ensure AI workloads follow security baselines and comply with enterprise standards.
• Develop and maintain AI security reference architectures, design patterns, and documentation for internal consumption.
• Advise application development, data science, and risk/compliance teams on secure integration of AI capabilities into their workflows.
• Contributes to the development of AI security policies, standards, and governance frameworks.
• Perform risk assessments on third-party AI tools and services being evaluated for business adoption.
• Championing a security-first mindset across the organization by delivering training, brown bags, and awareness sessions on AI security topics.
• Make contributions to management and solve intermediate to complex business problems.

Skills

Cybersecurity

Cloud security

Security engineering

AI/ML security

Communication

Cloud platforms

Tools

Cloud security tooling

Job description

Toyota Financial Services is seeking an experienced cybersecurity professional to join our security engineering team in Plano, TX. You will configure, monitor, and refine AI security controls across enterprise cloud environments, partnering with data science and engineering teams to ensure secure AI deployments.

The role demands hands-on experience with AI/ML security, cloud security principles, and the ability to communicate complex risks to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.