Senior AI Security Engineer – Product Security Leader

Relha LLC; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 179,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

PayPal is seeking a Senior Staff Product Security Engineer, AI Security in Chicago to lead security across AI-enabled development and products. You will partner with Security Architecture, engineering, product, and platform teams to translate AI security requirements into scalable controls, testing, and enforcement.

You will mentor engineers, drive enterprise‑wide improvements, and help reduce risk while enabling AI‑driven capabilities at scale.

Qualifications

• 8+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Hands-on familiarity with application security tools (SAST, DAST, SCA, WAF, Burp Suite)
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Terraform, and version control systems such as Git
• Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud vendor (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Strong understanding of authentication and authorization protocols (OAuth 2.0, SAML)
• Deep knowledge of application security vulnerabilities, secure software development practices, and technical controls to identify, prevent, and remediate software risk
• Hands-on experience securing AI systems
• Strong software-engineering experience building and operating production security tooling, automation, platform services, or developer-facing capabilities
• Track record of partnering with developers to implement robust security controls
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence technical and executive audiences
• Experience designing and operating security controls across cloud environments, CI/CD systems, and diverse application and infrastructure stacks
• Experience mentoring engineers

Responsibilities

• Reviewing an AI architecture, threat model, or agent workflow and identifying material security risks.
• Designing, prototyping, or integrating an AI security control into a product, shared platform, or engineering workflow.
• Evaluating results from AI security scanners, adversarial tests, and runtime monitoring to determine required engineering action.
• Partnering with developers and platform teams to resolve complex design or implementation issues.
• Analyzing control coverage, effectiveness, adoption, and incident findings to determine program priorities.
• Mentoring engineers and leading technical decisions that span multiple teams or business units.

Skills

Security engineering

AI security

Cloud security

Security tooling

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

SAST

DAST

SCA

WAF

Burp Suite

Kubernetes

Terraform

Git

Job description

PayPal is seeking a Senior Staff Product Security Engineer, AI Security in Chicago to lead security across AI-enabled development and products. You will partner with Security Architecture, engineering, product, and platform teams to translate AI security requirements into scalable controls, testing, and enforcement.

You will mentor engineers, drive enterprise‑wide improvements, and help reduce risk while enabling AI‑driven capabilities at scale.