Senior AI Security Engineer – Cloud, Risk & Compliance

Moody's Investors Service; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 117,000 - 192,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Parental leave

Paid time off

401(k) with company match

Tuition reimbursement

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Moody's Investors Service is seeking a cybersecurity engineering leader to secure AI and model ecosystems, defining architecture, controls, and risk assessments across the AI/ML lifecycle. You will collaborate with engineering to embed security into development, deployment, and operations, while advancing governance and incident response capabilities.

The role requires deep AI expertise and experience leading AI-risk governance, with strong collaboration across technical and business

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, or an equivalent technical discipline or combination of education and relevant experience.
• Experience designing, securing, or operating cloud-based solutions with at least one major cloud platform.

Responsibilities

• Secure AI and model ecosystems by defining architecture, implementing controls, assessing risk, and supporting resilient deployment and operations.
• Develop and maintain AI security architecture, standards, and technical roadmap.
• Identify and implement security controls across AI/ML lifecycle.
• Assess AI/ML and LLM solutions for prompt injection, data leakage, model manipulation, and unauthorized access.
• Provide hands-on support for security testing, reviews, threat modelling, control implementation, and incident investigations.
• Establish secure configuration requirements for cloud-hosted AI services, ML platforms, pipelines, APIs, and containers.
• Partner with engineering to integrate security controls into development and deployment processes.
• Develop monitoring approaches for model behaviour, misuse, data exposure, and emerging threats.
• Contribute to AI governance, risk assessments, exception management, and incident response.

Skills

Cloud platforms

AI/ML concepts

Security architecture

Threat modelling

Security testing

Cross-functional collaboration

Scripting/automation

AI risk governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Info Sys/Engineering

Tools

Cloud configuration management

Job description

Moody's Investors Service is seeking a cybersecurity engineering leader to secure AI and model ecosystems, defining architecture, controls, and risk assessments across the AI/ML lifecycle. You will collaborate with engineering to embed security into development, deployment, and operations, while advancing governance and incident response capabilities.

The role requires deep AI expertise and experience leading AI-risk governance, with strong collaboration across technical and business