Senior Engineer - GenAI Security

HITEC; New York (NY); On-site; USD 122,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Industry-leading benefits

Access to paid time off

Annual discretionary award eligibility

Job summary

Hobbsnews is seeking a cybersecurity expert to lead the engineering approach for complex features within their GenAI platform. This role involves defining technical strategies, ensuring secure architectures, and influencing best practices across teams.

The candidate should have over 8 years of experience in cybersecurity, specializing in identity management and cloud security. Benefits include competitive pay and discretionary incentive eligibility.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in cybersecurity, security architecture, or platform security engineering.
• Strong expertise in Identity and access management (IAM), OAuth2, mTLS.
• Proven experience designing and securing Distributed, cloud-native platforms.
• Strong understanding of Data protection, encryption, and access control principles.
• Familiarity with Observability and detection engineering (SIEM, anomaly detection).

Responsibilities

• Define the technology tool stack for the solution.
• Guide and influence teams on design and best practices.
• Conduct research and design prototyping activities.
• Lead threat modeling and risk assessment for GenAI systems.
• Define and implement the security architecture for the GenAI platform.

Skills

Automation

Influence

Result Orientation

Stakeholder Management

Technical Strategy Development

Application Development

Architecture

Business Acumen

Risk Management

Solution Design

Agile Practices

Analytical Thinking

Collaboration

Data Management

Solution Delivery Process

Education

Bachelor Degree or Equivalent Professional Experience

Job description

Job Description

This job is responsible for defining and leading the engineering approach for complex features to deliver significant business outcomes. Key responsibilities include delivering complex features and technology, enabling development efficiencies, providing technical thought leadership based on conducting multiple software implementations, and applying both depth and breadth in a number of technical competencies. Additionally, this role is accountable for end-to-end solution design and delivery.

Job Profile Summary

Global Markets GenAI Technology is a fast-growing global team with locations in New York City, Charlotte, London, and India. Generative AI presents an exciting opportunity to derive valuable insights from data and drive revenue growth, efficiencies, and improved business processes. Global Markets GenAI Technology collaborates with Global Markets Sales & Trading, Quantitative Strategies & Data Group (QSDG) & Platform teams to design and build a global generative AI platform.

Responsibilities

• Ensures that the design and engineering approach for complex features is consistent with the larger portfolio solution
• Define the technology tool stack for the solution and evaluate and adapt new testing tools/framework/practices for the team(s)
• Enables team(s)/applications with Continuous Integration/Continuous Development (CI/CD) capabilities and engages with other technical stakeholders pertaining to efficient functioning of the CI/CD pipeline
• Guides and influences team(s) on design and best practices for high code performance – e.g., pairing, code reviews
• Provides end-to-end delivery of complex features, including automation, for either a single team or multiple teams at the program level
• Conducts research, design prototyping and other exploration activities such as evaluating new toolsets and components for release management, CI/CD, and features
• Works with stakeholders to establish high-level solution needs and with architects for technical requirements
• Define and implement the security architecture for the GenAI platform
• Design and enforce identity and access control models
• Establish secure API and tool invocation patterns
• Define and implement AI guardrails and safety controls
• Lead threat modeling and risk assessment for GenAI systems
• Design and enforce RAG and data security controls

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years in cybersecurity, security architecture, or platform security engineering
• Strong expertise in:
  • Identity and access management (IAM), OAuth2, mTLS
  • API security, gateway enforcement, and zero-trust design
  • Threat modeling and risk assessment
• Proven experience designing and securing:
  • Distributed, cloud-native platforms
  • Multi-tenant systems with strict data access controls
• Strong understanding of:
  • Data protection, encryption, and access control principles
  • Auditability, logging, and compliance frameworks
• Familiarity with:
  • Observability and detection engineering (SIEM, anomaly detection)
  • Attack vectors and security risks in modern application architectures

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with GenAI / AI/ML security, including:
  • Prompt injection and adversarial attacks
  • Data leakage and model misuse risks
  • Guardrails and safety evaluation frameworks
• Experience securing:
  • RAG architectures, vector databases, and retrieval pipelines
  • Agent-based or multi-agent systems
• Experience in regulated environments (financial services strongly preferred)
• Familiarity with:
  • OWASP LLM / agentic security risks
  • Model governance, lineage, and compliance metadata

Skills

• Automation
• Influence
• Result Orientation
• Stakeholder Management
• Technical Strategy Development
• Application Development
• Architecture
• Business Acumen
• Risk Management
• Solution Design
• Agile Practices
• Analytical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Data Management
• Solution Delivery Process

Minimum Education Requirements: Bachelor Degree or Equivalent Professional Experience

Shift

1st shift (United States of America)

Hours Per Week

40

Pay Transparency details

US - NY - New York - 1100 Ave Of The Americas - Two Bryant Park (NY1540)

Pay range: $122,000.00 - $200,000.00 annualized salary, offers to be determined based on experience, education and skill set.

Discretionary incentive eligible: This role is eligible to participate in the annual discretionary plan. Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary award based on their overall individual performance results and behaviors, the performance and contributions of their line of business and/or group; and the overall success of the Company.

Benefits: This role is currently benefits eligible. We provide industry-leading benefits, access to paid time off, resources and support to our employees so they can make a genuine impact and contribute to the sustainable growth of our business and the communities we serve.