Senior AI Security Engineer for Applications & Agents

Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 107,000 - 284,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Staff Application Security Engineer - AI & Agentic Systems to secure the next generation of AI-enabled applications, large language model integrations, and agentic workflows. You will partner with engineering, product, platform, and data teams to embed security into design, development, and operations.

As a senior technical contributor, you will define secure design patterns, conduct threat modeling and risk assessments, guide teams on secure development practices, and

Qualifications

• 7+ years designing, building, or securing enterprise-scale applications.
• 5+ years of application security experience including threat modeling, secure design, code review, and vulnerability management.
• 5+ years programming in Python, Java, JavaScript, C#, or Go.
• 3+ years developing or securing AI, ML, or generative AI solutions.
• 3+ years with public cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain application and AI security standards, best practices, and guardrails.
• Promote secure-by-design principles across application and AI development lifecycles.
• Establish secure design patterns for AI agents, prompt management, tool integrations, memory handling, and autonomous workflows.
• Partner with engineering teams to identify and mitigate AI-specific security risks such as prompt injection, model abuse, data leakage, and unauthorized agent actions.

Skills

Enterprise security design

Threat modeling

Secure design patterns

Programming languages

AI security

Security testing

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

CI/CD tools

Public cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Staff Application Security Engineer - AI & Agentic Systems to secure the next generation of AI-enabled applications, large language model integrations, and agentic workflows. You will partner with engineering, product, platform, and data teams to embed security into design, development, and operations.

As a senior technical contributor, you will define secure design patterns, conduct threat modeling and risk assessments, guide teams on secure development practices, and