Senior AI Security Engineer - Remote AI/ML Risk & Defense

Devconnectplatform; United States; Remote; USD 123,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid time off (PTO)

Parental leave

Education assistance

Job summary

Tenable is seeking a Senior AI Information Security Engineer to drive security across the AI/ML lifecycle, implement robust controls, and lead threat modeling and safety assessments for enterprise AI deployments.

The role emphasizes collaborating with product and engineering teams, shaping security standards for AI use, and delivering tooling to strengthen the organization’s AI security posture. Remote options are available in the US.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in information security or application security, with 1–2 years securing AI/ML systems.
• Strong coding experience in Python and/or Go.
• Deep understanding of AI-specific security threats (adversarial ML, data poisoning, prompt injection, model inversion).
• Experience with SSDLC, DevSecOps, and security testing practices (SAST, DAST, SCA).
• Familiarity with cloud security platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and AI/ML services.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain end-to-end security controls across the AI/ML lifecycle.
• Conduct AI safety research and threat modeling for AI/ML systems.
• Develop AI security tooling and reference architectures for enterprise deployments.
• Collaborate with engineers and product teams to embed security in AI development and deployment.

Skills

Python

Go

AI security

Threat modeling

Security testing

CI/CD

Security automation

Education

Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, or related field

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Hugging Face Transformers

TransformerLens

Captum

LIT

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Tenable is seeking a Senior AI Information Security Engineer to drive security across the AI/ML lifecycle, implement robust controls, and lead threat modeling and safety assessments for enterprise AI deployments.

The role emphasizes collaborating with product and engineering teams, shaping security standards for AI use, and delivering tooling to strengthen the organization’s AI security posture. Remote options are available in the US.