Senior GenAI Security & Application Protection Leader

Socket.dev; Roseland (NJ); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

ADP is seeking an experienced Senior Manager to lead the cybersecurity engineering team focused on AI and application protection. You will drive GenAI guardrails, LLM security controls, agentic security, and evaluate AI risks while shaping practical engineering solutions.

The role emphasizes growing engineers, solving ambiguous security problems, and delivering scalable production capabilities in a fast-evolving AI landscape. Hybrid work arrangement preferred in the US.

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading software, platform, DevSecOps, or security engineering teams.
• Hands-on experience developing with or leading engineering for Generative AI, including LLM APIs, agentic systems, RAG, tool use, or similar AI application patterns
• Demonstrated experience developing and growing technical engineers
• Strong understanding of AI risks including prompt injection, unsafe model behavior, sensitive-data exposure, and tool/agent abuse
• Experience with application security, AI security, or security engineering is preferred
• Experience leading multiple technical workstreams with changing priorities and ambiguous requirements

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop engineers working across AI and application protection engineering
• Drive execution across GenAI guardrails, LLM security controls, agentic security, application protection, and emerging AI development workstreams
• Translate ambiguous technical and security problems into clear priorities, ownership, and engineering plans
• Help evaluate emerging AI and agentic risks and guide practical engineering approaches to reduce those risks
• Partner closely with engineers on architecture, design, development, scanner and policy tuning, automation, and production maturity
• Manage engineering capacity, priorities, dependencies, delivery, performance, and career development
• Create scalable approaches for engaging application and development teams as adoption grows
• Balance greenfield engineering with reliability, technical debt, operational maturity, and existing production responsibilities
• Provide technical leadership through architecture and design reviews, technical problem solving, and hands-on contribution when appropriate

Skills

People Leadership

GenAI Experience

Security mindset

AI risk understanding

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field

Tools

Python

Java

Go

TypeScript

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

ADP is seeking an experienced Senior Manager to lead the cybersecurity engineering team focused on AI and application protection. You will drive GenAI guardrails, LLM security controls, agentic security, and evaluate AI risks while shaping practical engineering solutions.

The role emphasizes growing engineers, solving ambiguous security problems, and delivering scalable production capabilities in a fast-evolving AI landscape. Hybrid work arrangement preferred in the US.