Senior AI Security Engineer - Cloud & ML Threat Detection

Toyota North America; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Team Member Vehicle Purchase Discount

Relocation assistance

Health care plans

Job summary

Toyota North America is seeking a Senior AI Security Engineer to secure AI workloads across cloud environments. You will configure AI-driven detection and response, review architectures, and guide engineering, data science, and risk teams.

Bring 4–6 years in cybersecurity or cloud security, hands-on AI/ML security experience, and strong communication to influence cross-functional teams. This role offers a collaborative culture and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Minimum 4–6 years 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.
• Experience configuring and operationalizing security detection and response tooling.
• Ability to conduct security architecture reviews for AI/ML solutions.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional influencing skills.
• Knowledge of major cloud platforms and security configurations.

Responsibilities

• Configure, deploy, and maintain AI-driven detection and response capabilities.
• Monitor AI security tooling, tune policies, and optimize detection efficacy.
• Develop detection policies, response playbooks, and automated workflows.
• Conduct architecture reviews of AI/ML solutions for security posture.
• Advise cross-functional teams on secure use of cloud-based AI services.
• Evaluate security controls for large language model deployments.
• Partner with cloud engineers to ensure secure AI workloads and baselines.
• Create AI security reference architectures and documentation.
• Advise on secure AI integration in development workflows.
• Contribute to AI security policies, standards, and governance.
• Perform risk assessments on third-party AI tools and vendors.
• Deliver training and awareness sessions on AI security.

Skills

Cybersecurity experience

Cloud security

Security engineering

AI/ML security

Security architecture

Communication skills

Cloud platforms

Tools

Model hosting

Inference APIs

Agent frameworks

Job description

Toyota North America is seeking a Senior AI Security Engineer to secure AI workloads across cloud environments. You will configure AI-driven detection and response, review architectures, and guide engineering, data science, and risk teams.

Bring 4–6 years in cybersecurity or cloud security, hands-on AI/ML security experience, and strong communication to influence cross-functional teams. This role offers a collaborative culture and comprehensive benefits.