Senior AI Security & Tooling Architect

Citizens; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 175,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision coverage

Retirement plans

Parental leave

Flexible work arrangements

Education reimbursement

Wellness programs

Generous paid time off

Job summary

Citizens is seeking a highly accomplished Distinguished Engineer, AI Tooling & Security to drive the design, engineering, and security of AI powered platforms and applications across the enterprise. This role combines deep software engineering expertise with advanced security knowledge to ensure AI solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and aligned with business objectives.

As a Distinguished Engineer, you will serve as a hands on technical leader and peer mentor, partnering with

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software/engineering/security/data engineering experience.
• Demonstrated success leading large scale engineering initiatives across multiple teams.
• Strong understanding of AI, ML, and agentic AI architectures.
• Experience developing secure, cloud-based applications and services.
• Strong programming in Python and at least one other modern language.
• Experience with large-scale data platforms and analytical workloads.
• Hands-on experience with AWS cloud technologies and securing sensitive workloads.
• Strong Linux and scripting experience (Bash).
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions).
• Deep understanding of application security, cloud security, IAM, API security.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, development, and implementation of software solutions for enterprise AI initiatives.
• Collaborate to define scalable, secure technology solutions aligned with enterprise standards.
• Build cloud-native applications and reusable components to accelerate outcomes.
• Incorporate scalability, reliability, performance, observability into designs.
• Champion engineering excellence through automation, testing, and continuous improvement.
• Mentor engineers and foster a culture of innovation and accountability.
• Build and operationalize security controls across AI apps, models, prompts, and data.
• Secure AI/ML lifecycle from data ingestion to deployment and runtime operations.
• Design safeguards against prompt injection, data poisoning, model inversion, and adversarial attacks.
• Strengthen IAM, access management, and cloud security across platforms.
• Secure integrations between AI platforms and enterprise applications and databases.
• Implement encryption, tokenization, data masking, and privacy controls.
• Develop monitoring, logging, detection, and alerting for anomalous AI behaviors.

Skills

Python

AI/ML security

Security engineering

Cloud security

DevSecOps

Linux

Threat modeling

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / related field

Bachelor's or Master's in Computer Science / Software Engineering / Data Science / Cybersecurity

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

AWS

Job description

Citizens is seeking a highly accomplished Distinguished Engineer, AI Tooling & Security to drive the design, engineering, and security of AI powered platforms and applications across the enterprise. This role combines deep software engineering expertise with advanced security knowledge to ensure AI solutions are scalable, resilient, secure, and aligned with business objectives.

As a Distinguished Engineer, you will serve as a hands on technical leader and peer mentor, partnering with