Senior AI Security Engineer — Enterprise AI Guardrails

Affirm; Los Angeles (CA); Remote; USD 204,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health coverage

Stipends for tech setup

Flexible time off

Employee stock purchase plan

Job summary

Affirm is seeking a seasoned Security Engineer to lead enterprise AI/LLM security review processes, evaluating architecture, data flows, and tool configurations. You will embed security requirements during design, model risks, and drive remediation across Security, Legal, Privacy, Compliance, IT, and Engineering.

Required are hands-on security architecture, threat modeling, and experience with IAM, OAuth2, SAML, and cloud services (AWS, Terraform).

Qualifications

• Seasoned security engineer with hands-on experience designing and maintaining security architecture for AI/LLM systems.
• Strong threat-modeling fundamentals, including security controls for agentic systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise AI security review processes evaluating architecture and data flows.
• Threat-model AI/LLM systems and drive remediation of risks.
• Review source code and tool configurations, and help build security-focused test cases.

Skills

Threat modeling AI/LLM

Security architecture

Python

Infrastructure as Code

Kubernetes

AWS

OAuth2

SAML

Non-human identities IAM

Incident response

Communication to execs

Tools

MCP servers/clients

Terraform

CASB

IDP/Okta

Job description

Affirm is seeking a seasoned Security Engineer to lead enterprise AI/LLM security review processes, evaluating architecture, data flows, and tool configurations. You will embed security requirements during design, model risks, and drive remediation across Security, Legal, Privacy, Compliance, IT, and Engineering.

Required are hands-on security architecture, threat modeling, and experience with IAM, OAuth2, SAML, and cloud services (AWS, Terraform).