Senior AI Security Engineer: Secure AI & Data

Healthfirst; New York (NY); On-site; USD 135,000 - 194,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental and vision coverage

401(k) contributions

Life insurance

Incentive & recognition programs

Job summary

Healthfirst in New York City seeks a Sr AI Security Engineer to continuously monitor vulnerabilities and develop security solutions for AI-enabled infrastructure. The role spans IT, product, and cloud security, with hands-on work on modern AI technologies such as LLMs, RAG, and AI agents.

The engineer will perform security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and hands-on testing of AI systems, partnering with AI engineering teams to implement guardrails and secure CI/CD practices in a

Qualifications

• Technical degree in CS or Cyber Security or equivalent experience.
• Experience in security engineering, vulnerability assessment, threat hunting, and incident response.
• Familiarity with AI security concepts (LLMs, RAG, AI agents) and cloud security.

Responsibilities

• Perform security architecture reviews and threat modeling for AI-enabled applications.
• Conduct hands-on security testing of LLM, RAG, and agentic AI solutions.
• Identify vulnerabilities including prompt injection and data exposure.
• Assess security risks with AI agents, APIs, model integrations, and vector databases.
• Partner with developers to design and implement practical security controls.
• Develop reusable security patterns and guardrails for AI architectures.
• Build or automate security tests and tools for AI apps.
• Protect PHI, PII, credentials, and other sensitive information.
• Evaluate emerging AI security threats and translate findings into engineering guidance.
• Support secure AI development practices across the organization.

Skills

Security engineering

Threat modeling

Security testing

CI/CD security

Python

Cloud security

AI security

Communication

Education

Technical Degree in Computer Science or Cyber Security

High School diploma or GED

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

CloudFormation

Azure OpenAI

AWS Bedrock

Google Vertex AI

Job description

Healthfirst in New York City seeks a Sr AI Security Engineer to continuously monitor vulnerabilities and develop security solutions for AI-enabled infrastructure. The role spans IT, product, and cloud security, with hands-on work on modern AI technologies such as LLMs, RAG, and AI agents.

The engineer will perform security architecture reviews, threat modeling, and hands-on testing of AI systems, partnering with AI engineering teams to implement guardrails and secure CI/CD practices in a