Senior AI Security Engineer - Secure Product & SDLC

AlphaSense; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 182,000 - 228,000; Full time

Job summary

AlphaSense is seeking a Senior Product Security Engineer to design and implement secure, scalable products across its AI-native platform. You’ll collaborate with architects, engineering, and product teams to embed security by design throughout the software development lifecycle, focusing on AI/ML security, threat modeling, and governance.

You will lead security reviews, develop automation, and mentor teams while aligning security initiatives with product roadmaps.

Qualifications

• 5–7+ years in product, application, or cloud security engineering.
• Deep understanding of secure SDLC, threat modeling, and secure architecture design.
• Ability to read and review code to inform threat models and design reviews.
• Experience securing AI/ML pipelines, data workflows, and model-serving infrastructure, with working knowledge of AI/LLM security (prompt injection, model integrity, provenance).
• Proven expertise with cloud security concepts across multi-cloud environments.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps and CI/CD environments.
• Familiarity with encryption fundamentals — symmetric and asymmetric cryptography, TLS/mTLS, key management, and secrets handling.
• Understanding of authentication and authorization patterns: OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, RBAC, ABAC.
• Ability to drive cross-functional security initiatives — partnering with engineering, product, and compliance to embed security into roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Architect and enforce security controls for AI/ML systems.
• Identify and mitigate AI-specific attack vectors: prompt injection, data poisoning, model inversion, model theft.
• Implement model provenance, integrity, and auditability controls for secure AI operations.
• Align AI security with governance and compliance teams against frameworks like NIST AI RMF and the EU AI Act.
• Embed security throughout the software and AI development lifecycle with cross-functional partners.
• Lead threat modeling, secure design reviews, and risk assessments across the SDLC.
• Produce customer-facing security assurance — security questionnaire responses, whitepapers, and trust collateral.
• Mentor teams on secure coding, AI risk management, and secure design.

Skills

Secure SDLC

Threat modeling

Secure architecture

Code review

AI/ML security

Cloud security

DevSecOps / CI/CD

Cryptography fundamentals

OAuth / OIDC / SAML / RBAC / ABAC

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

Python

Java

JavaScript

Kubernetes security

Job description

AlphaSense is seeking a Senior Product Security Engineer to design and implement secure, scalable products across its AI-native platform. You’ll collaborate with architects, engineering, and product teams to embed security by design throughout the software development lifecycle, focusing on AI/ML security, threat modeling, and governance.

You will lead security reviews, develop automation, and mentor teams while aligning security initiatives with product roadmaps.