Senior Offensive AI Engineer - Frontier Security & Testing

State Street; Princeton (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 203,000; Full time

Job summary

State Street is seeking an Offensive AI Engineer to join Frontier AI Security & Testing (FAST). You will design, deploy and operate secure AWS-based platforms, evaluation harnesses and data pipelines to enable safe use of frontier AI models at enterprise scale.

This hands-on role requires building infrastructure, integrating frontier models via vendor APIs, and enforcing audit-ready governance, risk controls and observability for regulated financial services.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, Artificial Intelligence, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience in software, cloud, data or security engineering.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience building and deploying GenAI, LLM or agentic AI solutions on cloud platforms, preferably AWS.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred) and CI/CD tooling.
• AWS certifications and/or Databricks certifications are a plus.
• Offensive security certifications (e.g., OSCP, OSEP, GPEN) or penetration testing experience are a plus.
• Experience in financial services or another highly regulated industry is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, engineer and deploy secure, isolated AWS environments to host frontier AI models (Bedrock, SageMaker, PrivateLink, VPC endpoints).
• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD pipelines for AI workloads with auditable deployment patterns.
• Engineer network segmentation, identity controls, secrets management and egress restrictions.

Skills

Python

GenAI

Agentic AI frameworks

REST APIs

Security concepts

Auditing & governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, AI or equivalent

Tools

Amazon Bedrock

SageMaker

PrivateLink/VPC endpoints

EKS/ECS

Lambda

API Gateway

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD pipelines

Databricks

Job description

State Street is seeking an Offensive AI Engineer to join Frontier AI Security & Testing (FAST). You will design, deploy and operate secure AWS-based platforms, evaluation harnesses and data pipelines to enable safe use of frontier AI models at enterprise scale.

This hands-on role requires building infrastructure, integrating frontier models via vendor APIs, and enforcing audit-ready governance, risk controls and observability for regulated financial services.