Senior Lead AI Security Engineer

JPMorgan Chase & Co.; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase & Co. in Columbus, Ohio is seeking a Senior Lead AI Security Engineer to design and deliver secure AI solutions for critical cyber use cases.

You will shape platform standards and governance while collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive secure AI innovation. The role emphasizes building secure LLM/RAG services, integrating with SIEM/XDR, and establishing SDLC guardrails with measurable metrics and post-deployment monitoring.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in software/security engineering with hands-on cyber/ SecOps/ AppSec experience.
• 3+ years building and operating applied ML/LLM systems in production (RAG pipelines, embeddings, vector DBs).
• Proficiency in Python and at least one of Java/Scala/TypeScript; knowledge of microservices, APIs, containers, Kubernetes.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design and delivery of AI solutions for cyber use cases.
• Build secure LLM/RAG services and ML pipelines integrated with SIEM/XDR, EDR, SOAR, IAM, ITSM, and cloud telemetry.
• Establish engineering standards for secure AI, including prompt security, input/output validation, and secrets handling.
• Create evaluation harnesses with metrics, datasets, adversarial tests, and KPI definitions.
• Partner with platform teams to stand up reusable AI components and governance workflows.
• Implement drift and quality monitoring; define SLAs/SLOs; build incident response runbooks.

Skills

Python

LLM systems

Kubernetes

Security engineering

Software engineering

Tools

LangChain

LlamaIndex

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Kafka

Job description

Job Summary

As a Senior Lead AI Security Engineer in our Cybersecurity team, you will design and deliver secure artificial intelligence solutions that support critical cyber use cases. You will play a key role in shaping platform standards and governance, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and driving innovation in secure AI. Together, we will build foundational capabilities and create lasting impact for our organization and the wider community.

Job responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end design and delivery of AI solutions for cyber use cases, from problem framing and data integration to model development, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Build secure LLM/RAG services and ML pipelines that integrate with SIEM/XDR, EDR, SOAR, IAM, ITSM, CMDB, code repos, and cloud telemetry.
• Establish engineering standards for secure AI: prompt security, tool/function calling patterns, input/output validation, PII masking, secrets handling, and deterministic fallbacks.
• Create evaluation harnesses with offline/online metrics, golden datasets, adversarial prompt sets, jailbreak tests, and safety/quality KPIs.
• Partner with platform teams to stand up reusable AI components: LLM gateways, vector stores, feature stores, evaluation/observability, and governance workflows.
• Implement drift and quality monitoring; define SLAs/SLOs; build incident response runbooks for AI-enabled services.
• Collaborate with risk and MRGR-style governance partners to meet documentation, validation, and attestations; maintain model/AT inventories, monitoring plans, and change logs.
• Deliver measurable impact: reduce MTTR, improve detection precision, automate control evidence collection, and accelerate secure engineering.
• Mentor engineers and analysts; publish playbooks, templates, and safe prompt libraries; lead brown-bags and office hours for adoption.
• Drive a roadmap of 2–3 flagship capabilities per year (e.g., SOC triage assistant, controls automation agent, DevSecOps code copilot).

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Minimum 7 years of software/security engineering, including hands‑on experience in one or more of: detection engineering, SecOps, AppSec/DevSecOps, or cloud security.
• Minimum 3 years building and operating applied ML/LLM systems in production (RAG pipelines, embeddings, fine‑tuning/specialization, vector databases, model serving).
• Proficiency in Python and at least one of: Java, Scala, or TypeScript; experience with microservices, APIs, containers, and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with SIEM, EDR, SOAR, IAM, and ITSM integrations; streaming/data engineering with Kafka or similar.
• Experience with LLM orchestration and guardrails (prompt engineering, injection defense, tool calling, safety filters).
• Hands‑on with ML/LLM ecosystems: PyTorch or TensorFlow; scikit‑learn; LangChain/LlamaIndex; ONNX/Triton/Ray
• Strong understanding of secure SDLC, privacy, and data protection; ability to partner with governance to meet documentation and monitoring requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to ship secure, reliable AI features with clear metrics and post‑deployment monitoring.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills

• Experience building developer copilots for AppSec/DevSecOps (IaC scanning, secrets detection, SAST/DAST triage).
• Cloud security engineering across one or more major providers; IaC and policy‑as‑code.
• Experience or exposure to Cyber operations, Adversarial ML and LLM red teaming experience (prompt injection, data exfiltration, model abuse, poisoning defenses).
• Graph ML for identity/threat detection; anomaly detection over telemetry.
• GPU optimization, model quantization/distillation, and on‑prem/private model deployment.
• Familiarity with governance for AI/ML systems in regulated environments.

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