Senior Principal Cybersecurity & AI Security (Onsite)

Sandia Corporation; Albuquerque (NM); On-site; USD 118,000 - 236,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Relocation assistance

Generous vacation

Job summary

Sandia National Laboratories seeks an experienced cybersecurity professional to architect, implement, and maintain scalable security solutions across multidisciplinary software teams. You will secure integrated environments, LLMs, hardware interfaces, and mission networks, advancing automated controls and proactive defense.

Lead DevSecOps pipelines, evaluate security tooling, and collaborate to set secure coding standards and training across groups. Onsite work is required for this posting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline and 5 years of directly relevant experience.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q Clearance.
• Experience with secure software development and cybersecurity workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, and maintenance of automated DevSecOps pipelines.
• Evaluate, test, and integrate SAST/DAST and vulnerability detection systems.
• Partner with teams to establish secure coding standards and training.
• Advance research in cyber deterrence, cryptography, reverse engineering, and threat intel.
• Design guardrails for LLM agents and related technologies.

Skills

Reverse engineering

Vulnerability assessment

Web app assessment

Networking

Computer architecture

Scripting

High-level programming

Python

C/C++

Java

Go

JavaScript

C#/.NET

Secure coding

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline

Graduate degree (MS/PhD) in related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

OpenShift

AWS

Azure

GCP

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Sandia National Laboratories seeks an experienced cybersecurity professional to architect, implement, and maintain scalable security solutions across multidisciplinary software teams. You will secure integrated environments, LLMs, hardware interfaces, and mission networks, advancing automated controls and proactive defense.

Lead DevSecOps pipelines, evaluate security tooling, and collaborate to set secure coding standards and training across groups. Onsite work is required for this posting.