Senior AI Security Engineer - Remote with US Hours

Runpoint Partners; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote role (US-friendly hours)

Contract-to-project opportunity

Job summary

Runpoint Partners seeks an AI Engineer to help make AI-enabled systems safer while maintaining productive workflows. This remote role emphasizes hands-on security testing, practical mitigations, and clear communication with engineering teams.

You will examine AI workflows, agent boundaries, and tool permissions, translating findings into actionable controls. Strong writing and speaking skills are essential for cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience assessing or securing software, cloud environments, toolchains, or AI workflows.
• Knowledge of security testing techniques and modern tooling.
• Ability to reason about AI-specific risks and access controls.
• Hands-on approach with systems and tools, not only policy.
• Strong judgment on severity and actionable risk, with clear communication.

Responsibilities

• Deliberately test AI-enabled workflows to uncover realistic failure modes.
• Assess controls around permissions, sandboxing, secrets, and tool access.
• Identify vulnerabilities across code, dependencies, infra, and cloud access.
• Differentiate credible risks from demonstrations not translating to real attacks.
• Recommend mitigations, implement fixes, and verify problem resolution.
• Explain security trade-offs clearly to engineers and operators.

Skills

Security testing

Cloud security

AI risk assessment

Hands-on approach

Communication skills

Tools

CodeQL

Semgrep

Dependency scanning

Cloud IAM

Job description

Runpoint Partners seeks an AI Engineer to help make AI-enabled systems safer while maintaining productive workflows. This remote role emphasizes hands-on security testing, practical mitigations, and clear communication with engineering teams.

You will examine AI workflows, agent boundaries, and tool permissions, translating findings into actionable controls. Strong writing and speaking skills are essential for cross-team collaboration.