Senior Cyber AI Engineer — Frontier AI for Security

EY; Hoboken (NJ); On-site; USD 125,000 - 192,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Pension plan

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

EY is seeking a Cyber AI Engineer at the Senior Consultant level to help clients apply frontier AI cyber models to real security challenges. You will build, evaluate, and deploy AI solutions—from prototype to production with guidance from technical and engagement leaders.

You will own technical deliverables, collaborate across teams, and contribute to architecture, demos, and reusable playbooks, while traveling as needed.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a cybersecurity, CS, information systems, engineering, or related field with 3–5 years hands-on software engineering and AI/ML deployment.
• Proficiency in Python, APIs, Git, automated testing, and production delivery; experience with frontier AI models for cybersecurity.
• Experience deploying AI/LLM applications for cybersecurity and building agents, tool integrations, and evaluation pipelines.
• Knowledge of security operations, threat investigation, detection engineering, or incident response automation.
• Experience with DevSecOps, CI/CD, containers, and IaC for AI services.
• Cloud engineering and secure AI deployment on AWS, Azure, or GCP; API integration with SIEM/SOAR/EDR.
• Application security, vulnerability analysis, secure code review, or automated remediation.
• Understanding of prompt injection, data leakage, unsafe tool use, and OWASP Top 10/MITRE ATLAS safeguards.
• Working knowledge of security architecture, IAM, data protection, and secure AI operations.
• Experience contributing to client-facing delivery or cross-functional engineering from requirements to deployment.
• Strong writing, presentation, and technical documentation skills.
• Willingness to travel 25–50% based on client and business needs.

Responsibilities

• Deploy AI workflows for threat investigation, detection engineering, vulnerability analysis, and remediation support with client teams.
• Own assigned technical deliverables, estimate tasks, and communicate progress and risks to engagement leaders.
• Contribute to architecture, pair programming, code reviews, and integration troubleshooting.
• Collaborate with model providers and researchers to test cyber capabilities and document deployment findings.
• Contribute to technical demonstrations, proposals, reusable components, evaluation suites, and playbooks.

Skills

Frontier AI models

LLMs

Agentic architectures

Retrieval augmented generation

Cybersecurity

Software engineering

Python

APIs

Git

Automated testing

CI/CD

Production delivery

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/CS/IS/Engineering

Tools

Model integrations

Retrieval pipelines

Evaluation harnesses

Job description

EY is seeking a Cyber AI Engineer at the Senior Consultant level to help clients apply frontier AI cyber models to real security challenges. You will build, evaluate, and deploy AI solutions—from prototype to production with guidance from technical and engagement leaders.

You will own technical deliverables, collaborate across teams, and contribute to architecture, demos, and reusable playbooks, while traveling as needed.