Senior AI Security Engineer, Product & Platform

GEICO; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 100,000 - 215,000; Full time

Job summary

GEICO in Bethesda, Maryland is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to strengthen the security of AI-enabled products and the engineering platforms that support them. This role combines product security judgment with hands-on software development to translate business needs and security requirements into practical, production-ready solutions.

The successful candidate will lead security efforts within the team, conduct threat modeling and secure design reviews, collaborate with engineering and

Qualifications

• Solid professional experience in software engineering, security engineering, product security, application security, or a related technical field.
• Hands-on experience writing, reviewing, testing, and troubleshooting code, with strong proficiency in Python or a comparable modern programming language.
• Experience with full-stack or platform development using tools and technologies such as GitHub, Git, terminal and CLI workflows, APIs, relational databases such as PostgreSQL, and automated testing.
• Practical experience conducting threat modeling, secure design reviews, architecture reviews, or secure code reviews.
• Working knowledge of common application and API security risks, secure authentication and authorization patterns, input validation, logging, error handling, database security, and secure SDLC practices.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership within the team for AI security, product security, secure design, and security engineering work.
• Plan, estimate, prioritize, and deliver engineering work to schedule while managing multiple concurrent priorities and context switches.
• Design, build, test, deploy, and troubleshoot production-ready security services, integrations, automation, and developer tooling.
• Perform threat modeling and security architecture reviews for AI-enabled applications, services, APIs, data flows, agentic workflows, and supporting platforms.
• Review code and designs for authentication, authorization, role-based access control, input validation, data protection, logging, error handling, database access, and other security concerns.
• Translate business needs, customer feedback, and security requirements into clear technical requirements, implementation plans, and measurable outcomes.

Skills

Python

Threat modeling

Secure design

Code review

Security engineering

Communication skills

Problem solving

Tools

GitHub

Git

CLI workflows

PostgreSQL

APIs

CI/CD

Job description

GEICO in Bethesda, Maryland is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to strengthen the security of AI-enabled products and the engineering platforms that support them. This role combines product security judgment with hands-on software development to translate business needs and security requirements into practical, production-ready solutions.

The successful candidate will lead security efforts within the team, conduct threat modeling and secure design reviews, collaborate with engineering and